Staff Safety Assurance Engineer, Robot Safety

1X Technologies AS • Palo Alto, CA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

We build humanoid robots that work alongside people to solve labor shortages and create abundance.
As a Staff Safety Assurance Engineer, you will own the end-to-end safety assurance argument for the Neo robot platform. This role ensures that all safety work is integrated into a coherent, complete, and defensible safety case that supports deployment decisions. You’ll play a mission-critical role in shaping world-first safety assurance practices for humanoid robots designed for home environments. You will report to the Director of Robot Safety.

Requirements

• B.S. or higher in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
• 10+ years of experience delivering safety-critical products (robotics, autonomous vehicles, medical devices, aerospace, or industrial automation), with direct work in safety assurance, system safety, or safety case development
• Proven experience owning safety cases for systems operating around people
• Deep understanding of functional safety, verification & validation, and compliance
• Ability to reason about residual risk, confidence, and uncertainty
• Experience evaluating autonomous, complex, or learning-enabled systems
• Strong working knowledge of robotics and autonomy safety standards (e.g. UL 4600, IEC 61508, ISO 26262, ISO 21448)
• Demonstrated ability to influence high-stakes decisions without formal authority
• Excellent technical communication skills, including written safety arguments and executive-level briefings

Nice To Haves

• Experience assessing safety evidence derived from large-scale simulation or field data
• Understanding of real-world safety monitoring, incident response, and feedback loops
• Experience contributing towards the development of safety confidence metrics

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the full safety case, including claims, arguments, assumptions, and supporting evidence
• Evaluate the completeness, consistency, and strength of evidence supporting key safety claims
• Assess confidence, uncertainty, coverage limitations, and assumptions across diverse deployment conditions
• Lead deployment readiness assessments and clearly present risk framing to leadership
• Maintain the safety case as system behavior, autonomy, and and operating conditions evolve
• Support post-deployment monitoring of safety-relevant field data
• Provide grounded input to inform risk acceptance decisions
• Act as an independent, constructive reviewer and challenger of safety arguments

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level