Job statistics for Systems Engineer, Safety
- Days open
- 6 days
- Expected tenure
- 6 years
- Estimated salary
- $105,000
- Based on Mid-level seniority, the Robotics industry and Canada market rates.
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Current safety team1 tracked professional
- By function
- 1 engineering
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- Aaron B — Product Safety, Validation, and Safety Management
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Systems Engineer, Safety
Job description
About the role
We're not here debating the future of AI. We're deploying it in the real world. In just two years, we've raised $350M and achieved the first fully autonomous excavator deployments in construction.
About The Role
Bedrock is looking for a Systems Engineer with safety engineering experience to define and maintain the system-level architecture that allows autonomous construction equipment to operate safely around people and other equipment.
This role sits at the intersection of systems engineering and functional safety: the person in it will decompose system-level requirements across hardware, software, and mechanical subsystems, while ensuring that safety analysis and safety requirements are built into that architecture from the start rather than added afterward.
This role will work directly with the teams designing sensing, compute, and actuation systems, and will be expected to make and defend technical tradeoffs that affect both system performance and safety posture.
What You'll Do
- Develop actionable requirements and metrics for the system, with a focus on safety
- Support development of the functional safety concept and supporting technical safety concepts for the system
- Define and maintain system-level architecture and interface requirements across hardware, software, and mechanical subsystems
- Lead or contribute to safety analyses, such as , , STPA, and FTA, and translate findings into system and hardware requirements
- Define safety mechanisms such as redundancy, diagnostics, watchdogs, and graceful degradation, and verify their implementation
- Participate in design reviews across hardware, software, and mechanical disciplines, with particular attention to failure modes and safety-relevant interfaces
- Work with the lead to establish verification and validation plans, including test methodology
- Support root cause analysis for field and test issues where system-level or safety-relevant causes are suspected
What We're Looking For
- 8+ years of experience in systems engineering, with direct involvement in functional safety work products (e.g., under ISO 13849, ISO 26262, or IEC 61508)
- Strong ability to work with data to drive system understanding and feature prioritization and develop trade studies
- Experience with verification and validation methods
- Experience with safety analysis and risk assessment methods
- Experience writing and decomposing system-level requirements, and tracing them through to verification
- Familiarity with safety mechanisms such as redundancy, watchdogs, diagnostics, and fault detection
- Bachelor's or advanced degree in systems engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, or a related field
- Ability to work across hardware, software, and mechanical teams and communicate technical tradeoffs clearly in writing and in review
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with autonomous or robotic systems, particularly those operating in unstructured or dynamic environments
- Experience with STPA
- Experience with third-party safety assessment (e.g., TÜV, UL)
- Familiarity with sensing and compute hardware relevant to autonomy (cameras, lidar, GNSS, IMUs)
- Experience with heavy equipment, construction, , or agricultural
Legal and equal opportunity notices
Join the team bringing advanced autonomy to the built world
At Bedrock, we're moving AI out of the lab and into the real world. Our team includes veterans who helped launch Waymo, scaled Segment to a $3.2B acquisition, and grew Uber Freight to $5B in revenue. Today, we're deploying on heavy construction equipment across the country, improving safety on job sites and accelerating schedules on critical infrastructure projects.
This is where algorithms meet steel-toed boots. You'll work alongside construction veterans and world-class engineers to solve physical-world problems that simulations can't touch. If you're ready to do meaningful work on hard problems, we'd love to have you join us.
We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic.
We want our hiring process to be accessible to everyone. If you need an accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, please let your recruiter know so we can support you.