Senior Safety Systems Engineer (Robotics)

Location: Seattle, United States

Salary: $160K–$190K per year, plus equity

Company

hirify.global develops ruggedized autonomous robots and heavy machinery that combine software, hardware, robotics, and mission-critical infrastructure for jobsites.

What you will do

• Develop system-level safety architectures across hardware, software, autonomy, and controls.
• Lead hazard analysis using FMEA, Fault Tree Analysis, HAZOP, STPA, and related methods.
• Define safety requirements, mitigations, degraded operating modes, fail-safe behaviors, and safe operating boundaries.
• Build safety cases and maintain traceability between hazards, requirements, mitigations, and validation evidence.
• Define verification and validation strategies using simulation, SIL, HIL, fault injection, and field testing.
• Analyze human-machine interaction, operator intervention, emergency-stop behavior, incidents, near misses, and fleet telemetry.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Systems Engineering, Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical, Robotics, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience with complex or safety-critical systems.
• Experience with FMEA, Fault Tree Analysis, HAZOP, STPA, or similar safety methodologies.
• Strong understanding of hardware-software integration and verification and validation strategy development.
• Ability to collaborate across robotics, controls, hardware, software, and field operations teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with autonomous systems, robotics, heavy machinery, automotive, aerospace, or industrial systems.
• Familiarity with ISO 17757, ISO 19014, ISO 13849, IEC 61508, ISO 26262, or SOTIF.
• Experience with safety cases, requirements traceability, certification processes, HIL/SIL testing, fault injection, fleet telemetry, or field validation.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time engineering role focused on safety-critical autonomous machines.
• Work spans multidisciplinary engineering areas including software, hardware, autonomy, controls, and field operations.
• Compensation includes equity.
• Balance long-term safety solutions with pragmatic mitigations for advancing products safely.