安全工程师负责人，机器人
Lead Safety Engineer, Robotics
关于团队
我们的机器人团队专注于实现通用机器人技术，并在动态、现实的环境中推动达到AGI级别的人工智能。我们跨整个模型堆栈工作，整合最前沿的软硬件，探索各种机器人形态。我们努力将高级AI能力与物理系统的约束无缝结合，以改善人们的生活。
关于职位
我们正在寻找一位首席机器人安全工程师，负责制定并领导我们机器人项目的整体安全策略。您将与领导层、工程、研究、法律和政策团队紧密合作，确保安全在产品开发的早期阶段到部署过程中得到充分集成。
该职位结合了产品安全、监管策略、系统工程和风险管理。您将帮助塑造我们在机器人平台上的安全思维，影响产品架构和开发决策，并确保我们的系统设计符合当前和未来可能出现的监管要求。
您将成为机器人安全标准、监管框架和安全工程实践方面的专家，同时帮助建立我们产品和组织的长期安全策略。
该职位位于加利福尼亚州旧金山。该职位需要每周4天在办公室工作，并为新员工提供搬迁补助。
在此职位中，您将
- 定义并领导机器人系统在整个开发生命周期中的产品安全策略。
- 监测并影响与机器人和自主系统相关的新兴监管框架、行业标准和政策发展。
- 与工程团队合作，将安全需求转化为产品架构、设计决策和工程需求。
- 开发和维护机器人产品的系统级危害分析、风险评估和安全案例。
- 建立安全需求、验证策略和证据生成计划，以支持产品开发和未来的认证活动。
- 与法律、政策和领导团队合作，评估监管风险并指导长期产品战略。
- 与硬件、软件、控制和研究团队合作，在开发过程中识别危害并制定缓解措施。
- 领导系统级危害分析、HARA活动、FMEA和其他结构化风险评估
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About the Team
Our Robotics team is focused on unlocking general-purpose robotics and pushing towards AGI-level intelligence in dynamic, real-world settings. Working across the entire model stack, we integrate cutting-edge hardware and software to explore a broad range of robotic form factors. We strive to seamlessly blend high-level AI capabilities with the constraints of physical systems to improve peoples’ lives.
About the Role
We are seeking a Lead Robotics Safety Engineer to define and lead the product safety strategy for our robotics program. You will work closely with leadership, engineering, research, legal, and policy teams to ensure safety is integrated into our products from the earliest stages of development through deployment.
This role combines product safety, regulatory strategy, systems engineering, and risk management. You will help shape how we think about safety across robotic platforms, influence product architecture and development decisions, and ensure our systems are designed to meet both current and emerging regulatory expectations.
You will serve as a subject matter expert on robotics safety standards, regulatory frameworks, and safety engineering practices while helping establish the long-term safety strategy for our products and organization.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA. This role will be expected to be in office 4 days per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
In this role, you will
- Define and lead the product safety strategy for robotic systems across the development lifecycle.
- Monitor and influence emerging regulatory frameworks, industry standards, and policy developments relevant to robotics and autonomous systems.
- Partner with engineering teams to translate safety requirements into product architecture, design decisions, and engineering requirements.
- Develop and maintain system-level hazard analyses, risk assessments, and safety cases for robotic products.
- Establish safety requirements, verification strategies, and evidence-generation plans to support product development and future certification activities.
- Collaborate with legal, policy, and leadership teams to assess regulatory risks and inform long-term product strategy.
- Partner with hardware, software, controls, and research teams to identify hazards and develop mitigations throughout the development process.
- Lead system-level hazard analyses, HARA activities, FMEAs, and other structured risk assessment processes to identify hazards, evaluate risks, and drive mitigation strategies throughout product development.
- Represent the company in discussions with standards bodies, industry groups, regulators, and external safety experts when appropriate.
- Help build and scale the safety engineering function as the robotics organization grows.
You might thrive in this role if you
- Enjoy applying first-principles thinking to complex safety and risk management challenges.
- Are comfortable navigating ambiguity where regulations, standards, and technology are evolving simultaneously.
- Can balance technical, regulatory, operational, and business considerations when making recommendations.
- Enjoy working across disciplines and influencing engineering decisions without direct authority.
- Are passionate about building products that are both innovative and demonstrably safe.
Preferred qualifications
- Deep expertise in product safety, functional safety, systems safety, robotics safety, or related disciplines.
- Experience working with safety and regulatory frameworks such as ISO 10218, ISO 13849, IEC 61508, ISO 12100, ANSI/RIA standards, or comparable safety standards.
- Experience developing hazard analyses, risk assessments, safety cases, or certification strategies for complex electromechanical systems.
- Familiarity with robotics, autonomous systems, industrial equipment, consumer products, medical devices, automotive systems, aerospace systems, or other safety-critical technologies.
- Experience working with regulators, standards organizations, certification bodies, or industry working groups.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
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