Senior Systems Engineer, Functional Safety
Time type: full time
Posted on: December 03, 2024
Job requisition id: R4305
What we need
We are looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to join our Functional Safety team. Your job will be to guide the development of safety systems for Symbotic, ensuring safe and efficient human/machine interaction. The Senior Systems Engineer works to integrate technical disciplines and functions throughout the development cycle by creating and maintaining a rigorous, structured development process.
What we do
The Functional Safety team is integral in ensuring that Symbotic's efficient and cutting-edge warehouse automation solutions adhere to the highest standards of safety and compliance.
What you’ll do
- Guide the development of safety systems for Symbotic products through a structured process from stakeholder requirements and Concept of Operations through to system and subsystem design and test, working with engineering, support, and test teams, as well as with customers.
- Run an ISO 12100 risk assessment process and generate requirements for safety systems to mitigate risks.
- Collaborate with engineering in the design of a safety architecture and hazard mitigations.
- Create and manage cross-functional system and subsystem requirements for safety systems.
- Collaborate with the test team to facilitate the development and documentation of appropriate tests and ensure coverage for all requirements.
- Create and manage traceability from requirements to verification and validation.
- Write system and subsystem design documents for safety systems.
- Run FMEAs, identify and document gaps, track mitigations, and support process for FMEDAs.
- Become an internal expert on applicable standards, e.g. ISO 10218, ISO 62998, ISO 13849, IEC 61508, etc., and how they apply to Symbotic systems.
What you’ll need
- BS degree or equivalent in an engineering-related discipline.
- Minimum 8 years of experience as an engineer working on complex hardware/software systems.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in systems engineering in a regulated domain; e.g. medical devices, avionics, or machine safety.
- Creativity and comfort with taking initiative and developing new processes.
- Meticulous nature and drive to find gaps in current understanding and processes.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills for internal and external customers.
- Strong documentation skills and practice.
- Experience creating and managing requirements and traceability.
- Experience running risk analyses and FMEAs (ideally supporting FMEDAs as well)
- Good technical leadership, planning and organization/control skills.
- Ability to read, understand and use established standards from bodies such as ISO, IEC, NFPA, UL, etc.
Our Environment
- Up to 15% of travel may be required. Employees must have a valid driver’s license and the ability to drive and/or fly to client and other customer locations.
- The employee is responsible for owning a credit card and managing expenses personally to be reimbursed on a bi-weekly basis.
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