Staff 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

• Perform Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment of humanoid robots across specific customer applications
• Develop Functional Safety Concepts, Functional Safety Requirements, and Technical Safety Requirements
• Perform system-level analyses to derive requirements related to stopping distances, perception, and timing/spatial/force constraints
• Derive requirements for fail-safe and fail-operational behaviors, degraded states, and human-robot interactions
• Develop test cases for verification and validation
• Define, engineer, deploy, and employ system safety validation equipment at HIL, SIL, and system level

Requirements

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering
• Certified Functional Safety Engineer in IEC 61508 or ISO 26262
• Experience designing safety systems for complex electromechanical products
• Experience in optics, machine vision, and computer vision
• Hands-on engineering experience with test benches, measurement, and root-cause analysis
• Hands-on experience in verification and validation of safety requirements using HIL and SIL

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in humanoid robots, automotive, or autonomous mobile robots (AMR)
• Certified Functional Safety Engineer in Machinery Safety
• Experience designing and deploying industrial automation and safety systems
• Certified SOTIF ISO 21448 engineer
• Experience in automotive ADAS collision avoidance
• Experience with laser sensors, LiDAR, and time-of-flight cameras
• Hands-on experience performing FMEDA per IEC 61508 or ISO 26262
• In-depth understanding of safety-critical architectures for compute, networking, and power distribution