Systems Safety Engineer (Robotics)

Location: Mountain View, United States

Salary: $200,000–$300,000 per year plus equity

Company

hirify.global develops generalist intelligent humanoid robots across the full robotics stack, including hardware, robot systems, infrastructure, foundation world models, and manufacturing.

What you will do

• Develop safety-related features for a humanoid robot.
• Derive requirements for stopping, collision avoidance, collision sensing, motor control, and diagnostics through analysis and experimentation.
• Define fail-safe, fail-degraded, and fail-operational strategies and architectures.
• Drive safety requirements from inception and approval through implementation and verification.
• Design and use custom instrumentation and verification equipment for requirements validation and diagnostics development.
• Support system integration and application engineering while collaborating with mechanical, electrical, software, and applications teams.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience developing mass-produced electromechanical products.
• B.S. in Robotics, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Experience with data acquisition, instrumentation, data conversion, analysis using Python or statistical tools, and data presentation.
• Proven systems safety engineering experience with HARA, DFMEA, FTA, STPA, and safety case development for complex robotic electromechanical systems.
• Experience taking complex safety-critical products from concept through mass production and safety certification.
• Experience deriving safety requirements, developing and executing fault-injection test cases, analyzing results, and presenting conclusions to cross-functional teams.

Nice to have

• Functional Safety certification from TÜV Rheinland or a similar organization, including IEC 61508 or Machinery standards.
• Experience with AI safety for Physical AI and autonomy sensors such as vision, ToF, and laser.
• Understanding of motor control, safety-critical embedded electronics, firmware, and software.
• Experience with electric and pneumatic actuators or robotic solutions for industrial manufacturing.
• Robotics experience across multiple industries and an M.S. in Engineering.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on generalist intelligent robots designed for complex real-world environments and long-tail edge cases.
• Contribute to an end-to-end robotics stack spanning hardware, software, AI models, infrastructure, and manufacturing.
• Collaborate across mechanical, electrical, software, systems integration, and applications engineering disciplines.
• Compensation includes equity.