Principal Robotics Functional Safety Engineer

The posting, as Agility Robotics wrote it

Agility’s commercially deployed humanoids operate alongside teams in warehouses, manufacturing facilities, and distribution centers—tackling physically demanding and repetitive tasks while enabling workers to focus on higher-value work. With industry-leading safety standards and years of proven deployment data, we're pioneering a new era of automation that enhances human potential.

About the Role

Agility Robotics is seeking a Principal Robotics Functional Safety Engineer to help lead our safety strategy. This is a high-impact role for an engineer who wants to shape the safety of complex robotic systems from architecture through deployment, and to help set functional safety direction across the broader engineering organization, not just a single product line.

We don't think of Agility as only a robotics company. We're proving out what it means to be a safety-of-robotics company, a robotics company and a software company in equal measure, and this team sits at the center of that identity.

You'll partner with a functional safety team of diverse backgrounds and collaborate closely with hardware, software, controls, perception, and systems engineering to ensure safety is embedded in every phase of development and verified in the field. Depending on team needs and your strengths, this role may involve deep technical ownership of a specific safety domain, direct support for customer deployments, or helping represent Agility's safety approach in external technical settings.

About the Work

• Lead functional safety efforts from concept through deployment, including compliance with the machinery directive, ISO 13849, IEC 62061, IEC 61508, and applicable mobile robot standards such as ANSI/RIA R15.08.
• Drive architecture-level safety decisions across current and next-generation robotic platforms, balancing real-world performance, technical risk, and compliance.
• Create and maintain core safety deliverables: risk assessments, safety requirement specifications (SRS), FMEDA, SISTEMA analyses, validation plans, and safety cases.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to define, communicate, and validate safety-critical requirements for hardware, embedded software, and control systems.
• Support customer deployments through remote collaboration and on-site visits, ensuring safe and compliant integration in dynamic environments.
• Oversee third-party vendors and labs for verification and validation (V&V) activities, including work supporting CE marking and other regulatory certifications.
• Coordinate with the compliance team on electrical safety, hazardous materials, and environmental/radio regulations (e.g., NFPA 79, IEC 60204-1, REACH, RoHS, FCC).
• Help design and validate functional safety architecture for AI and ML enabled features, ensuring their behavior stays within defined safety limits.
• Communicate safety strategy, risks, and requirements clearly across technical and non-technical audiences, including customers and engineering leadershi

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fit Start Date: Eligible for benefits on your first day of employment.

• Well-Being Support: Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Time Off:
• Exempt Employees: Flexible, unlimited PTO and 12 company holidays, including a winter shutdown.
• Non-Exempt Employees: 10 vacation days, paid sick leave, and 12 company holidays, including a winter shutdown, annually.
• On-Site Perks: Catered lunches four times a week and a variety of healthy snacks and refreshments at our Salem and Pittsburgh locations.
• Parental Leave: Generous paid parental leave programs.
• Work Environment: A culture that supports flexible work arrangements.
• Growth Opportunities: Professional development and tuition reimbursement programs.
• Relocation Assistance: Provided for eligible roles.
• Annual Discretionary Bonus: Provided for eligible roles.

All of our roles are U.S.-based. Applicants must have current authorization to work in the United States.

Agility Robotics is committed to a work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. Each individual has the right to work in a professional atmosphere that promotes equal employment opportunities and prohibits unlawful discriminatory practices, including harassment. Therefore, it is the policy of Agility Robotics to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, citizenship, national origin, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Agility Robotics prohibits any such discrimination or harassment.

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