Lead Safety Engineer, Robotics
OpenAI · San Francisco
CHECKED 36M AGO
Frontier labremotelead$381k–$423k
At a glance
Highlights
- Define product safety strategy for general-purpose robotics from dev to deployment.
- Blend AI capabilities with physical constraints to improve people's lives.
- Represent company with regulators and standards bodies on robotics safety.
What they offer
- Relocation assistance
- Equity
Ideal candidate
First-principles safety leader who thrives in ambiguity and loves working across engineering, legal, and policy to build innovative yet demonstrably safe robots.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in product safety, functional safety, systems safety, robotics safety, or related disciplines
- Experience with safety frameworks such as ISO 10218, ISO 13849, IEC 61508, ISO 12100, ANSI/RIA standards
- Experience developing hazard analyses, risk assessments, safety cases, or certification strategies for complex electromechanical systems
- Familiarity with robotics, autonomous systems, industrial equipment, consumer products, medical devices, automotive, aerospace, or other safety-critical technologies
- Experience working with regulators, standards organizations, certification bodies, or industry working groups
- remote policy
- In office 4 days per week
Lab profile
About OpenAI
Builds safe frontier AI models and products like ChatGPT for broad benefit.
What they build
- ChatGPT
- OpenAI API
- Frontier AI models
Known for
- Frontier-scale distributed ML training
- Massive GPU fleet and data center operations
- Exabyte-scale data lakes and streaming
- AI alignment and safety research
Key facts
- Operates one of the world's largest GPU fleets