Staff Robotics System Safety Engineer

About the Company

Rhoda AI is building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots.

Responsibilities

• Develop safety-related features of Rhoda AI humanoid robot
• Derive requirements related to stopping, collision avoidance, collision sensing, motor control and diagnostics
• Define fail-safe, fail-degraded and fail-operational strategies and required architectures
• Drive requirements from inception to approval to implementation to verification
• Invent, implement and use custom instrumentation and verification equipment for deriving requirements and developing diagnostics strategies
• Provide hands-on support to System Integration and Application Engineering teams
• Work closely with Mechanical, Electrical, Software and Applications teams

Requirements

• 10+ years mass-produced electromechanical product development experience
• B.S. in Robotics, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering or Computer Science
• Experience in data collection and analysis using Python or statistical tools
• Proven experience in systems safety engineering (HARA, DFMEA, FTA, STPA, and safety case development)
• Track record of complex safety-critical product development from inception to mass production and safety certification
• Experience deriving safety requirements for robotic systems through analysis and experimentation
• Experience developing test cases with fault injection and analyzing data for cross-functional teams
• Proficiency in at least one discipline: Electrical, Mechanical, or Software Engineering

Preferred Qualifications

• Certification from TUV Rheinland or similar in Functional Safety (IEC 61508 or Machinery)
• Experience in AI safety for Physical AI
• In-depth understanding of autonomy sensor methods (vision, TOF, laser, etc.)
• In-depth understanding of motor control and safety-critical embedded systems
• Experience with electric and pneumatic actuators
• Experience designing and deploying robotic solutions for industrial manufacturing
• M.S. Engineering degree