Lead Functional Safety Engineer

The role

You will own the safety case across products, including analysis, architecture, and certification plans. You will lead a functional safety team and perform hands-on verification on real hardware.

What you will do

• Own the safety case across products including analysis, architecture, and certification plans.
• Manage the relationship with assessors and act as the technical voice toward notified bodies and NRTLs.
• Perform verification on real robots including fault injection.
• Hire and lead functional safety engineers.
• Integrate safety into design reviews with hardware, embedded firmware, and test teams.

Required qualifications

• Taken collaborative robots or machinery of similar complexity through third-party safety assessment.
• Work fluently in ISO 10218-1 and -2, ISO 13849-1 and -2, ISO 12100 and IEC 61508.
• Ability to read a schematic and a firmware architecture.
• Knowledge of FMEA, FTA, HAZOP, STPA, and SISTEMA.
• For the Lead seat: have led or mentored safety engineers or be ready to build a team for the first time.

Nice to have

• Worked on the assessor side, at a notified body or NRTL.
• Know mobile manipulators and AMRs: ANSI/RIA R15.08, ISO 3691-4.
• Built or specified a safety controller rather than bought one.
• Shipped at a startup and liked it.
• Weekly on site is a plus

Benefits

• Employee Stock Options
• Paid time off
• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• 401(k)

About the company

Standard Bots is America's largest manufacturer of AI-native industrial robots. The company designs and assembles full-stack robots in Glen Cove, New York.