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Principal Robotics Functional Safety Engineer

Agility Robotics· Hardware
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full-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Lead safety strategy for complex robotic systems across architecture to deployment, collaborating with hardware, software, controls, perception, and systems engineering to embed safety throughout development and field deployment.

Responsibilities

  • Lead functional safety efforts from concept through deployment, including compliance with the machinery directive, ISO 13849, IEC 62061, IEC 61508, and applicable mobile robot standards such as ANSI/RIA R15.08.
  • Drive architecture-level safety decisions across current and next-generation robotic platforms, balancing real-world performance, technical risk, and compliance.
  • Create and maintain core safety deliverables: risk assessments, safety requirement specifications (SRS), FMEDA, SISTEMA analyses, validation plans, and safety cases.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to define, communicate, and validate safety-critical requirements for hardware, embedded software, and control systems.
  • Support customer deployments through remote collaboration and on-site visits, ensuring safe and compliant integration in dynamic environments.
  • Oversee third-party vendors and labs for verification and validation (V&V) activities, including work supporting CE marking and other regulatory certifications.
  • Coordinate with the compliance team on electrical safety, hazardous materials, and environmental/radio regulations (e.g., NFPA 79, IEC 60204-1, REACH, RoHS, FCC).
  • Help design and validate functional safety architecture for AI and ML enabled features, ensuring their behavior stays within defined safety limits.
  • Communicate safety strategy, risks, and requirements clearly across technical and non-technical audiences, including customers and engineering leadership.
  • Monitor the evolving regulatory and standards landscape relevant to mobile and humanoid robotics, and help evolve internal safety processes accordingly.
  • Partner with engineering and safety leadership to shape functional safety strategy and priorities across the broader product portfolio, taking ownership of safety outcomes that span multiple teams and programs.
  • Mentor engineers across the functional safety team and contribute to growing its technical depth and capacity.

Qualifications

  • BS in Robotics, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
  • 12+ years in robotics or safety-critical engineering, including 7+ years focused on functional safety.
  • Proven expertise in traditional risk reduction methods and application of the hierarchy of controls.
  • Deep familiarity with functional safety lifecycle practices and deliverables aligned with ISO 13849, IEC 61508, or similar frameworks.
  • Familiarity with applicable safety standards for mobile and industrial robots, including ANSI/RIA R15.08 and the ISO 10218 series.
  • Experience managing third-party vendors or labs for V&V activities to ensure compliance, quality, and traceability.
  • Hands-on experience with safety design and implementation for mobile, dynamic, or collaborative robotic systems.
  • Proven ability to coordinate across engineering teams to define, validate and test safety requirements.
  • Experience with safety analysis tools such as SISTEMA.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to advocate for safety in technical decision-making.

Benefits

  • 401(k) Plan with 6% company match
  • Equity: Company stock options
  • 100% company-paid medical, dental, vision, and short/long-term disability insurance for employees
  • Eligible for benefits on your first day of employment
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Flexible, unlimited PTO and 12 company holidays (including winter shutdown) for Exempt employees
  • 10 vacation days, paid sick leave, and 12 company holidays (including winter shutdown) for Non-Exempt employees
  • On-site catered lunches four times a week and snacks at Salem and Pittsburgh locations
  • Generous paid parental leave programs
  • Culture that supports flexible work arrangements
  • Professional development and tuition reimbursement programs
  • Relocation assistance for eligible roles
  • Annual discretionary bonus for eligible roles
Last updated Aug 13, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Agility Robotics

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Industrial Humanoid Automation | Agility's humanoid robots are deployed today in manufacturing, distribution, and logistics. Proven automation for industrial environments.

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