Senior System Engineer- AI Safety

Mountain View. Posted 4 months ago

The role

The AI System Safety Engineer owns the safety assurance lifecycle for the AI system powering a humanoid robot platform. You will assess risks from model-driven behaviors, define AI safety requirements, and lead verification of AI model safety properties.

What you will do

Lead AI-specific hazard identification and risk assessment sessions using STPA, FMEA, and scenario-based analysis
Assess risks introduced by AI model updates and retraining cycles
Identify unsafe control actions from AI decision-making across all robot operating modes
Establish safety requirements for AI model inputs, outputs, confidence thresholds, uncertainty quantification, and out-of-distribution detection
Develop test cases for verification and validation of AI safety
Define, engineer, deploy and employ system safety validation cells
Maintain full traceability from safety goals through AI system requirements to test cases and evidence artifacts

Required qualifications

B.S. Computer Science, Systems Engineering or Robotics
Experience designing AI-based safety systems for complex electromechanical products with significant safety aspects
Demonstrated understanding of AI/ML failure modes relevant to physical systems
Experience in STPA
Hands-on experience in Verification and Validation of AI-focused safety requirements

Nice to have

Experience in humanoid robots, automotive, autonomous mobile robots (AMR)
Experience in applying ISO/IEC TS 22440 or ISO/PAS 8800
Certified Functional Safety Engineer in IEC 61508 or ISO 26262
Experience in automotive ADAS or robotics collision avoidance
Experience with vision, time of flight cameras, laser sensors
In-depth understanding of safety-critical architectures for algorithms
Direct experience building structured Safety Cases for learned or adaptive AI systems deployed on physical platforms

About the company

Rhoda AI is building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. They own the full robotics stack from hardware to foundation world models.