Staff Robotics System Safety Engineer

Mountain View. Posted 4 months ago

The role

This person will develop safety-related features for the RhodavAI humanoid robot. They will derive requirements for stopping, collision avoidance, and motor control while defining fail-safe and fail-operational strategies.

What you will do

Develop safety-related features of RhodavAI humanoid robot
Derive requirements related to stopping, collision avoidance, collision sensing, motor control and diagnostics
Define fail-safe, fail-degraded and fail-operational strategies and required architectures
Drive requirements from inception to approval to implementation to verification
Invent, implement and use custom instrumentation and verification equipment
Provide hands-on support of System Integration and Application Engineering teams
Work closely with Mechanical, Electrical, Software and Applications teams

Required qualifications

10+ years mass-produced electromechanical product development experience
B.S. in Robotics, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering or Computer Science
Data collection and analysis methodologies - data acquisition and instrumentation, data conversion and analysis using Python or statistical tools, data presentation
Proven experience in systems safety engineering, including HARA, DFMEA, FTA, STPA and safety case development for complex electromechanical systems with significant robotic aspect
Proven track record of complex safety-critical product development from inception to mass production, including passing through safety certification
Proven experience deriving safety requirements for a robotic system through analysis and experimentation
Proven experience in developing test cases with fault injection, instrumenting and executing those test cases, analyzing data and presenting to cross-functional teams
Proven experience working in at least of one of the three basic disciplines: Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Software Engineering

Nice to have

Certification from TUV Rheinland or similar in Functional Safety ( IEC 61508 or Machinery)
Experience in AI safety for Physical AI
In-depth understanding of autonomy sensor methods - vision, TOF, laser, etc
In-depth understanding of motor control
In-depth understanding of safety-critical embedded systems electronics, firmware and software
Significant experience developing, characterizing or troubleshooting various electric and pneumatic actuators
Experience designing and deploying robotic solutions for industrial manufacturing
Experience with robotics more than one industry, among surgical, aerospace, automotive, mining, earth-moving, agricultural, home and commercial service robots
M.S. Engineering degree

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.