Senior Functional Safety Engineer (Hardware)
Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)Full-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
Senior role focused on defining and delivering the functional safety concept for hardware in Bedrock Robotics’ autonomous construction equipment, partnering with hardware and software teams to ensure end-to-end safety across the system.
Responsibilities
- Help define the functional safety concept for the system
- Author technical safety concepts at the HW level
- Partner with HW team to understand architectural requirements for future HW platforms
- Author HW safety requirements and drive design of safety mechanisms
- Establish test plans for verification and validation of the safety requirements
- Define test infrastructure and automation to support timely program execution
- Execute safety analysis such as HARA, FMEA, FMEDA, and FTA
Qualifications
- BS or advanced degree in electrical, mechanical, systems, or a related engineering field, or equivalent practical experience
- 7+ years in safety-critical hardware or systems engineering, including several focused specifically on functional safety
- Hands-on hardware background: you have designed, reviewed, brought up, debugged, or qualified electrical and electronic hardware yourself
- Working knowledge of functional safety standards ISO 13849, IEC 61508, IEC 62061, ISO 26262, ISO 25119, or ISO 19014 and how they apply to different systems and applications
- Strong experience with safety analysis
- Comfort with real-time and embedded systems, fail-safe and fail-operational architectures, and the failure modes of sensing and compute hardware
- Comfort working directly with hardware and test infrastructure to execute and debug safety features and tests
Skills
Required:Functional safety standardsSafety analysis techniquesVerification & Validation planningSafety mechanisms design
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Bedrock Robotics
Advanced Autonomy for the Built World
Advanced Autonomy for the Built World
AutonomyBedrock Operatorautonomyheavy machineryindustrial automationindustrial roboticsmachine intelligenceon-site autonomy
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