Systems Engineer, Safety
Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)Full-timePosted 1mo ago
About the role
Bedrock is hiring a Systems Engineer with safety engineering experience to define and maintain the system-level architecture for autonomous construction equipment, integrating safety into hardware, software, and mechanical subsystems.
Responsibilities
- Develop actionable requirements and metrics for the system, with a focus on safety
- Support development of the functional safety concept and supporting technical safety concepts for the system
- Define and maintain system-level architecture and interface requirements across hardware, software, and mechanical subsystems
- Lead or contribute to safety analyses, such as HARA, FMEA, STPA, and FTA, and translate findings into system and hardware requirements
- Define safety mechanisms such as redundancy, diagnostics, watchdogs, and graceful degradation, and verify their implementation
- Participate in design reviews across hardware, software, and mechanical disciplines, with particular attention to failure modes and safety-relevant interfaces
- Work with the V&V lead to establish verification and validation plans, including test methodology
- Support root cause analysis for field and test issues where system-level or safety-relevant causes are suspected
Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in systems engineering, with direct involvement in functional safety work products (e.g., under ISO 13849, ISO 26262, or IEC 61508)
- Strong ability to work with data to drive system understanding and feature prioritization and develop trade studies
- Experience with verification and validation methods
- Experience with safety analysis and risk assessment methods
- Experience writing and decomposing system-level requirements, and tracing them through to verification
- Familiarity with safety mechanisms such as redundancy, watchdogs, diagnostics, and fault detection
- Bachelor's or advanced degree in systems engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, or a related field
- Ability to work across hardware, software, and mechanical teams and communicate technical tradeoffs clearly in writing and in review
Skills
Required:Systems engineeringFunctional safetySafety analysesRequirements management
Benefits
- Reasonable Accommodations policy and accessible hiring process
- Equal Opportunity Employer statement included in job description
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Bedrock Robotics
Advanced Autonomy for the Built World
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