Lead Safety Engineer, Robotics
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
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About OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
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About the Role
You will define and lead the product safety strategy for OpenAI's robotics program, working with leadership, engineering, research, legal and policy teams. You will develop hazard analyses, risk assessments and safety cases, shape product architecture decisions, track regulatory developments, and help build the safety engineering function.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in product safety, functional safety, systems safety or robotics safety (preferred)
- Experience with ISO 10218, ISO 13849, IEC 61508, ISO 12100, ANSI/RIA standards (preferred)
- Experience developing hazard analyses, risk assessments, safety cases or certification strategies (preferred)
- Familiarity with robotics, autonomous systems or other safety-critical technologies (preferred)
- Experience working with regulators, standards organizations or certification bodies (preferred)
Responsibilities
- Define and lead product safety strategy for robotic systems across the development lifecycle
- Monitor and influence emerging regulatory frameworks, standards and policy
- Translate safety requirements into product architecture and engineering requirements
- Develop and maintain hazard analyses, risk assessments and safety cases
- Establish safety requirements, verification strategies and evidence-generation plans
- Collaborate with legal, policy and leadership teams to assess regulatory risks
- Lead HARA activities, FMEAs and other risk assessment processes
- Represent the company with standards bodies, industry groups and regulators
- Help build and scale the safety engineering function
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer HSA contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents
- Paid medical and caregiver leave up to 8 weeks
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
- Relocation support
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends