Functional Safety Engineer

About the role

We are seeking a Functional Safety Engineer to join our Functional Safety team within our Engineering organization. This role plays a critical part in ensuring Symbotic’s automation technologies meet rigorous industry safety standards while supporting innovation at scale.

Responsibilities

• Plan and coordinate functional safety activities to ensure compliance with applicable industry standards and regulations.
• Perform hazard analysis and risk assessments, DFMEA, FMEDA, qualitative and quantitative fault tree analysis, and related safety engineering activities.
• Develop and manage functional safety requirements, safety concepts, and risk reduction strategies for complex electro-programmable systems.
• Support verification and validation activities throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of functional safety processes within the product development V-model.
• Collaborate closely with project managers, systems engineers, product development teams, suppliers, and customers on functional safety initiatives.
• Participate in product and system design reviews to ensure safety goals and compliance objectives are achieved.
• Conduct safety reviews throughout development and support design release sign-offs at key project milestones.
• Proactively communicate risks, issues, and project status to engineering leadership and stakeholders.
• Support safety-related investigations, troubleshooting, and issue resolution at customer sites as needed.
• Maintain and track safety punch lists and corrective action items to support continuous improvement efforts.
• Travel up to 20% to support customer engagements, testing activities, and cross-functional collaboration.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Robotics, or related engineering discipline.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience driving product safety and compliance initiatives in complex technical systems.
• Experience working with functional safety standards and regulations such as IEC 61508, ISO 13849, OSHA, UL, NFPA 79, RIA R15.06, and related standards.
• Strong understanding of systems engineering principles including requirements management, architecture design, verification, validation, and configuration management.
• Experience performing safety analyses including HARA, DFMEA, FMEDA, and fault tree analysis.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong technical documentation practices.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities within a matrixed engineering organization.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools including Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across multidisciplinary technical teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• TÜV Functional Safety Engineer (FSE) certification.
• Experience with robotics, industrial automation, or autonomous systems.
• Familiarity with human-machine interface (HMI) safety considerations and electro-mechanical safety systems.
• Experience supporting customer-facing safety investigations or field issue resolution.
• Strong technical leadership and presentation skills with the ability to adapt communication style to different audiences.