Atoms
Lead Safety Case Engineer
$182K–$230K
San Francisco, CA +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 9+ years; deep expertise in at least two of functional safety, autonomous behavior, and fleet operations, with working fluency in the third.
About the job
Leads the end-to-end development, review, and ongoing governance of safety cases for production robotic systems, ensuring arguments are supported by sufficient evidence.
What you'll do
- Own and defend a defined safety case, from drafting through sign-off, while maintaining it as dependencies change.
- Set safety argument boundaries and build Claim-Argument-Evidence (CAE) structures; evaluate evidence and coordinate with safety, validation, and fleet operations teams.
- Lead formal safety reviews, improve shared safety methods and tooling, and develop AI-assisted safety engineering workflows.
What they ask for
- 9+ years of cross-functional experience across functional safety, autonomous behavior, and fleet operations, with deep expertise in at least two and working fluency in the third.
- Author-of-record experience for a structured safety argument (GSN or CAE equivalent) on a production system.
- Demonstrated mastery of hazard analysis methods paired with scenario-based validation strategies.
- Proficiency with relevant safety standards, statistical risk metrics, data provenance, and functional programming (e.g., Python).
Pay
$182,000 - $230,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
GSN, CAE, HARA, FMEA, FTA, ISO 26262, ISO 21448 (SOTIF), Python
AI focus
Pioneer AI-assisted safety workflows to draft from templates, stress-test hazard sets, cross-check scenario coverage, maintain traceability, and flag invalidated claims; treat AI-generated outputs as hypotheses or drafts.
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