Lead Safety Engineer, Robotics

The role

You will define and lead the product safety strategy for the robotics program. You will work across the development lifecycle to integrate safety into products through risk management and regulatory strategy.

What you will do

• Define and lead the product safety strategy for robotic systems across the development lifecycle.
• Monitor and influence emerging regulatory frameworks, industry standards, and policy developments.
• Partner with engineering teams to translate safety requirements into product architecture and design.
• Develop and maintain system-level hazard analyses, risk assessments, and safety cases.
• Establish safety requirements, verification strategies, and evidence-generation plans.
• Collaborate with legal, policy, and leadership teams to assess regulatory risks.
• Partner with hardware, software, controls, and research teams to identify hazards and develop mitigations.
• Lead system-level hazard analyses, HARA activities, FMEAs, and other structured risk assessment processes.
• Represent the company in discussions with standards bodies, industry groups, regulators, and external safety experts.
• Help build and scale the safety engineering function.

Nice to have

• Deep expertise in product safety, functional safety, systems safety, robotics safety, or related disciplines.
• Experience working with safety and regulatory frameworks such as ISO 10218, ISO 13849, IEC 61508, ISO 12100, ANSI/RIA standards, or comparable safety standards.
• Experience developing hazard analyses, risk assessments, safety cases, or certification strategies for complex electromechanical systems.
• Familiarity with robotics, autonomous systems, industrial equipment, consumer products, medical devices, automotive systems, aerospace systems, or other safety-critical technologies.
• Experience working with regulators, standards organizations, certification bodies, or industry working groups.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance

Before you apply

• Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law.

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They seek to safely deploy AI to the world through their products.