Staff Safety Assurance Engineer, Robot Safety

**Staff Safety Assurance Engineer, Robot Safety **Palo Alto, CA (on-site)

**About 1X **We build humanoid robots that work alongside people to solve labor shortages and create abundance.

**The Role **As a Staff Safety Assurance Engineer, you will own the end-to-end safety assurance argument for the Neo robot platform. This role ensures that all safety work is integrated into a coherent, complete, and defensible safety case that supports deployment decisions. You’ll play a mission-critical role in shaping world-first safety assurance practices for humanoid robots designed for home environments. You will report to the Director of Robot Safety.

You Will

• Own and maintain the full safety case, including claims, arguments, assumptions, and supporting evidence

• Evaluate the completeness, consistency, and strength of evidence supporting key safety claims

• Assess confidence, uncertainty, coverage limitations, and assumptions across diverse deployment conditions

• Lead deployment readiness assessments and clearly present risk framing to leadership

• Maintain the safety case as system behavior, autonomy, and and operating conditions evolve

• Support post-deployment monitoring of safety-relevant field data

• Provide grounded input to inform risk acceptance decisions

• Act as an independent, constructive reviewer and challenger of safety arguments

Must Have

• B.S. or higher in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field

• 10+ years of experience delivering safety-critical products (robotics, autonomous vehicles, medical devices, aerospace, or industrial automation), with direct work in safety assurance, system safety, or safety case development

• Proven experience owning safety cases for systems operating around people

• Deep understanding of functional safety, verification & validation, and compliance

• Ability to reason about residual risk, confidence, and uncertainty

• Experience evaluating autonomous, complex, or learning-enabled systems

• Strong working knowledge of robotics and autonomy safety standards (e.g. UL 4600, IEC 61508, ISO 26262, ISO 21448)

• Demonstrated ability to influence high-stakes decisions without formal authority

• Excellent technical communication skills, including written safety arguments and **executive-level briefings

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Preferred Qualifications

• Experience assessing safety evidence derived from large-scale simulation or field data

• Understanding of real-world safety monitoring, incident response, and feedback loops

Experience contributing towards the development of safety confidence metrics