System Safety Engineer Mining Industrial
Applied Intuition · Sunnyvale ·
- Work mode
- Onsite
- Category
- Occupational safety
- Experience
- 3+ years
You will own machine-level safety cases for autonomous mining deployments and turn hazards into safety requirements and verification criteria. You will conduct safety analyses, identify mitigation measures, support architecture and validation reviews, and participate in field testing and deployment sign-offs.
Responsibilities
- Develop and own machine-level safety cases for autonomous mining vehicle deployments
- Conduct hazard identification, risk assessment, HAZOP, FMEA, and safety gap analysis
- Derive machine safety requirements for vehicle-by-wire, emergency-stop, autonomy, and remote-operation systems
- Analyze hazardous behavior, failure modes, and fault propagation paths
- Translate hazards into implementable safety requirements and verification criteria
- Support architecture reviews, validation strategies, and safety acceptance criteria
- Collaborate with systems, controls, autonomy, software, hardware, and validation teams
- Participate in machine bring-up, fault injection, field testing, and site acceptance
- Review FMEDAs, reliability analyses, diagnostic coverage, and fault-detection mechanisms
- Support customer safety reviews, regulator discussions, readiness reviews, and deployment sign-offs
Requirements
- 3+ years of system safety experience
- Hands-on experience with system-level safety analyses for complex electromechanical systems
- Experience with HAZOP, FMEA, safety requirement derivation, risk assessment, and safety case development
- Understanding of braking, steering, propulsion, hydraulics, and autonomous control systems
- Experience implementing safety requirements across software, hardware, and systems engineering
- Experience supporting verification and validation of safety-critical systems
- Experience producing safety work products across the V-cycle
Benefits
- Equity
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- 401k retirement benefits with employer match
- Learning stipend
- Wellness stipend
- Paid time off