# Lead Safety Engineer, Robotics

**Company**: OpenAI
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $342K – $468K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186

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## Description

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.

**Responsibilities**

- 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.

**Benefits**

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts

- Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)

- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match

- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)

- Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees

- 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)

- Mental health and wellness support

- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage

- Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth

- Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible

- Relocation support for eligible employees

- Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

## Skills

### Required
- robotics safety
- product safety
- regulatory strategy
- systems engineering
- risk management

### Nice to have
- ISO 10218
- ISO 13849
- IEC 61508
- ISO 12100
- ANSI/RIA standards

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