Senior System Safety Engineer - Perception

The role

You will own the safety requirements and safety evidence for the robot's perception path. This includes sensors, data links, detection, decision logic, and the robot's response.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end safety targets and performance of perception algorithms
• Derive system safety requirements for detection performance, classification accuracy, and KPIs
• Develop detection and mitigation strategies within SOTIF framework
• Set safety requirements for calibration accuracy, drift detection, and recalibration triggers
• Set safety limits for the sensor-to-actuator error budget
• Create safety concept and safety requirements for software implementation
• Define safety requirements for safety-related sensors
• Generate work products towards Robot Safety Case and drive reviews with an NRTL

Required qualifications

• Expertise in deterministic, auditable, explainable computer vision algorithms used for perception
• Experience in analytically and empirically deriving engineering requirements with numerical pass/fail constraints
• Proven record of developing SOTIF work products for a safety-related robotic or automotive system
• Experience creating calibration fixtures, defining calibration processes and driving failure and trend analysis of field data
• Experience deriving and allocating error budgets
• Experience in developing analysis backed by data to inform trade studies to achieve compliance with error budgets
• Strong background in safety-critical embedded software, real-time operating systems, computer vision algorithms, and safety-compliant C/C++ development
• Experience with Lidars, Cameras, Time-of-Flight sensors, Radars, Ultrasonics, other sensing technologies and related sensor pipeline hardware

Nice to have

• MS or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Robotics with focus on Computer Vision and Embedded Systems
• Experience creating work products for Functional Safety and SOTIF and successfully passing an audit by an NRTL
• Experience with safety-rated compute hardware with strong vision processing capabilities
• Experience designing safety architectures and documenting requirements within the context of IEC 61508 or ISO 26262
• Experience with embedded software system developed with compliance to MISRA C, ISO 26262-6 or IEC 61508-3
• Perception Sensors Functional Safety background from automotive industry

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.