Bedrock Robotics
Senior Functional Safety Engineer (Hardware)
San Francisco, CA · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 6, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years in safety-critical hardware or systems engineering, including several focused specifically on functional safety.
- Education
- BS or advanced degree in electrical, mechanical, systems, or a related engineering field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Defines and delivers hardware-focused functional safety concepts, requirements, analyses, and verification for autonomous construction machines.
What you'll do
- Define system and hardware-level safety concepts, requirements, and safety mechanisms with hardware and software teams.
- Conduct safety analyses including HARA, FMEA, FMEDA, and FTA.
- Plan and execute safety verification and validation, including test infrastructure and automation.
What they ask for
- Direct experience delivering functional safety work products to ISO 13849, ISO 26262, IEC 61508, or similar.
- Experience defining and executing safety verification and validation, including fault injection and HIL testing.
- Hands-on electrical and electronic hardware design, review, bring-up, debugging, or qualification experience.
- Working knowledge of functional safety standards and strong safety-analysis experience.
Nice to have
- Experience with autonomous systems, system-level functional safety, or certification and third-party assessment.
- Experience with fault-injection/HIL benches, sensing and compute hardware, or heavy construction machines.
Tools
ISO 13849, ISO 26262, IEC 61508, IEC 62061, ISO 25119, ISO 19014, HIL
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