Senior Systems Engineer – Product Safety & Compliance

Senior Systems Engineer - Product Safety & Compliance

Energize has partnered with a cutting-edge robotics startup dedicated to crafting robots that enhance human quality of life and address the growing labor shortage challenge.

With a team of seasoned experts who have honed their craft since the DARPA Robotics Challenge, they tackle society's most pressing issues using a comprehensive approach to robotics. Their mission is to revolutionize the world with ground breaking products and technologies.

They are on the lookout an experienced Senior Systems Engineer to lead and execute our Product Safety and Compliance roadmap and drive functional safety architecture & design of their general-purpose robots. This is a unique opportunity to have a large impact at a high growth start-up. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, with a successful track record of building the product safety roadmap, leading safety requirements of complex electro-mechanical products in compliance with regulatory standards, we’d love to speak with you.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead safety risk assessments with internal stakeholders, build an executable product safety roadmap, summarize compliance reports & impact analysis.
• Be the leader on product and functional safety and develop the safety plan for safety critical functions according to IEC61508.
• Develop and document product safety requirements and technical safety concept.
• Lead the system level failure analysis and guide component level analysis for robot product portfolio.
• Partner with product management, design engineering, service, and maintenance to drive the safety design, compliance with technical standards and regulatory frameworks.
• Partner with product validation to ensure clear documentation of verification results of safety functions and requirements.

Required Skills

• Industry expertise in Systems Engineering, hazard and risk assessment (HARA), Design failure mode and effect analysis (DFMEA), and safety strategy development and implementation
• Prior experience in taking products to commercialization in adherence to safety standards
• Demonstrated experience in functional safety design and certification (IEC61508, ISO 13849, UL3100, UL3300)
• Demonstrated experience for standards compliance design and certification (IEC 60204, IEC 62368, IEC 60068-2, etc.)
• Experience with compliance and functional safety tools & processes.
• Leadership experience in change management to execute the safety roadmap.
• Expertise is requirements management tools (such as JAMA) and framework to document, review, and approve safety requirements.

Preferred Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Master’s degree preferred)
• At least 10+ years of systems engineering experience leading safety for complex electro-mechanical systems and robotics.

Perks:

• Competitive base w/ benefits
• Highly motivating equity incentive package
• Hybrid work schedule for applicable roles (i.e. work from home in some capacity)
• Flexible work hours policy
• Professional development opportunities
• Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 401k plan
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