Rhoda AI
Staff Robotics System Safety Engineer
$200K–$300K
Mountain View · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jun 22, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years mass-produced electromechanical product development experience.
- Education
- B.S. in Robotics, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science; M.S. Engineering degree is a nice-to-have.
About the job
Develops safety features and architectures for Rhoda AI’s humanoid robot, deriving and verifying safety requirements from analysis and testing through system integration and production.
What you'll do
- Develop safety features and define fail-safe, fail-degraded, and fail-operational strategies and architectures.
- Derive, manage, implement, and verify safety requirements, including requirements for stopping, collision avoidance, sensing, motor control, and diagnostics.
- Develop and use instrumentation and fault-injection tests; support system integration and application engineering teams.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of mass-produced electromechanical product development experience.
- B.S. in Robotics, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science.
- Proven systems safety engineering experience, including HARA, DFMEA, FTA, STPA, and safety case development for complex electromechanical systems with a significant robotic aspect.
- Proven experience taking complex safety-critical products from inception to mass production, including safety certification, and deriving robotic-system safety requirements through analysis and experimentation.
Nice to have
- TUV Rheinland or similar Functional Safety certification (IEC 61508 or Machinery).
- Experience in AI safety for Physical AI.
Pay
$200K – $300K (base salary)
Tools
Python, HARA, DFMEA, FTA, STPA, IEC 61508
AI focus
Nice-to-have experience in AI safety for Physical AI.
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