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System Safety Engineer, Mining/Industrial

Applied Intuition· Vehicle OS
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Sunnyvale$125k - $225kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Systems Safety Engineer focused on system-level safety analysis, hazard identification, risk assessment, and safety case development for autonomous and semi-autonomous heavy mining/industrial machinery. Emphasis on enabling safe deployment through end-to-end safety artifacts, MSRs, and collaboration across engineering teams.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and own machine-level safety cases for autonomous mining vehicle deployments and driverless operations
  • Design, develop hazard identification and risk assessment activities for machine functions and operational scenarios, including: HAZOP, System FMEA, Functional Failure Analysis, Operational Risk Assessment, Safety Gap Analysis
  • Perform safety analysis and derive Machine Safety Requirements (MSRs) for: Brake-by-Wire, Steer-by-Wire, Throttle-by-Wire, Shift/Transmission-by-Wire, Emergency Stop, Autonomous motion control, Remote operation functions
  • Analyze hazardous machine behavior, failure modes, and fault propagation paths to identify required prevention, detection, and mitigation measures
  • Translate operational hazards and engineering findings into clear, implementable system safety requirements and verification criteria
  • Support architecture reviews and identify safety gaps across sensing, compute, controls, hydraulics, actuation, communication, and operational processes
  • Work across vehicle functions including braking, steering, propulsion, autonomy, operator controls, machine monitoring, and site integration activities
  • Support development of validation strategies and safety acceptance criteria for machine-level demonstrations and driverless deployments
  • Collaborate with systems, controls, autonomy, software, hardware, and validation teams to ensure safety requirements are implemented and verified end-to-end
  • Participate in machine bring-up, fault injection activities, safety validation, field testing, and site acceptance activities
  • Review HW FMEDAs, reliability analyses, diagnostic coverage assumptions, and fault detection mechanisms to support machine-level safety arguments
  • Support customer safety reviews, regulator discussions, operational readiness reviews, and deployment sign-offs.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in electrical engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, or related technical discipline
  • 3+ years of system safety experience with a primary focus safety per ISO 26262 Part 6
  • Hands-on experience developing system-level safety analyses and safety artifacts for complex electromechanical systems
  • Strong experience with HAZOP, FMEA, safety requirement derivation, risk assessment, and safety case development
  • Good understanding of vehicle and machine control systems including braking, steering, propulsion, hydraulics, and autonomous control functions
  • Ability to analyze interactions between hardware, software, controls, operators, and operational environments
  • Experience collaborating across software, hardware, and systems engineering teams to implement safety requirements end-to-end
  • Experience defining safety requirements and mitigation strategies from identified hazards and failure modes
  • Experience supporting verification and validation activities for safety-critical systems
  • Hands-on experience producing safety work products across the V-cycle
  • Candidates with automotive functional safety experience, particularly ISO 26262 Part 4, HARA, FSC/TSC development, ADAS, or autonomous driving systems, are considered relevant and transferable to this role

Skills

Required:ISO 26262 Part 6Hazard and risk analysisMachine Safety Requirements (MSRs)System safety case development

Benefits

  • Base salary, equity, and benefits (health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, 401k with employer match, learning and wellness stipends, paid time off)
Last updated Oct 11, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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Applied Intuition is the vehicle intelligence company with the tools, Vehicle OS, and autonomy stacks for creating safe, AI-powered vehicle experiences.

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