Safety Engineer

The role

The Safety Engineer owns the safety of robotic cells from design to deployment. This includes functional safety, robotics software safety, and signing off on every deployment.

What you will do

• Own the safety concept for the cell platform
• Provide safety in design input to robotics software and product requirements
• Specify and prove safety functions in the safety PLC and robot safety controller
• Perform risk assessments and prepare CE technical files and Declarations of Conformity
• Manage site safety for deployments including layout, guarding, and operator access
• Establish rules for testing cells safely in R&D
• Conduct root cause investigation of safety faults and incidents
• Provide safety content for cell manuals and support presales questions

Required qualifications

• At least five years of machinery safety work on industrial machines or robotic cells
• Experience with risk assessments and CE marking
• Functional safety experience specifying and validating safety functions on safety PLCs, robot safety controllers and safety sensors
• Working knowledge of EU machinery law and the new Machinery Regulation
• Knowledge of ISO 12100 and ISO 13849
• Ability to read software design and discuss algorithms with robotics engineers
• Ability to make and document safety calls when no standard gives a direct answer
• Clear written English

Nice to have

• Recognised machinery safety qualification, such as TÜV Functional Safety Engineer or CMSE
• Experience building one safety concept that covered a family of machine variants
• Experience with collaborative or fenceless robot applications
• Experience bringing safety into robot motion, control or perception software
• Time at a machine builder or integrator that went from a handful of machines a year to dozens

About the company

Sunrise Robotics is dedicated to augmenting humanity through intelligent robotics. They aim to elevate manufacturing by introducing intelligent, flexible robots that enhance human capabilities.