Principal Functional Safety Engineer

Agility Robotics is a pioneer. Our robot, Digit, is the first to be sold into workplaces across the globe. Our team is differentiated by its expertise in imagining, engineering, and delivering robots with advanced mobility, dexterity, intelligence, and efficiency -- robots specifically designed to work alongside people, in spaces built for people. Every day, we break through engineering challenges and invent new solutions and capabilities that will one day make robots commonplace and approachable. This work is our passion and our responsibility: our mission is to make businesses more productive and people’s lives more fulfilling.

About Agility Robotics

Agility Robotics is pioneering the development of humanoid robots built for real-world work. Our mission is to create robots that integrate seamlessly into human environments, addressing complex challenges across logistics, manufacturing, and beyond. As we grow, we are seeking a Principal Robotics Functional Safety Engineer to lead and elevate our architecture team by driving system-level design decisions, ensuring scalability, and maintaining the speed and agility essential to success in a fast-paced startup environment.

Location: Remote with travel to standards meetings, customer sites, and company offices in Salem, OR; Pittsburgh, PA; or San Jose, CA

Travel: Approximately 25%, including customer visits

About the Role

Agility Robotics is seeking a Principal Robotics Functional Safety Engineer to shape the safety strategy and standards engagement for our advanced humanoid robotic platforms. As a leader in the emerging field of dynamically stable industrial mobile robots, Agility is defining how legged robots can safely operate in real-world environments alongside people. This role provides a unique opportunity to influence the safety of next-generation robotics, both within our products and across the industry through standards development.

The role centers on advancing safety standards for dynamically stable robots and guiding industry discussions toward practical solutions that enable real-world deployment. Making robots safe for deployment is always the top priority. You will represent Agility in developments of standards, helping to build consensus around approaches that allow safe integration of robots in customer environments while maintaining the highest ethical and safety expectations. Alongside this standard work, you will contribute directly to Agility’s functional safety activities, supporting the team in risk analysis, safety architecture, validation planning, and customer deployment.

You will collaborate with a small, highly skilled functional safety team that includes two other Principal Robotics Functional Safety Engineers and your manager, who also contributes hands-on to technical work. Together, the team ensures Agility’s safety approach is robust, scalable, and aligned with industry best practices. You will also engage with cross-functional partners in software, controls, hardware, and systems engineering to ensure safety is embedded in every phase of development and verified in the field.

This is a high-impact role for an engineer who is passionate about advancing the safe deployment of complex robotic systems. By combining hands-on functional safety expertise with the ability to navigate and influence industry standards, you will play a pivotal role in shaping both the safety of Agility’s products and the future of humanoid robot safety.

 

Key Responsibilities

• Lead functional safety efforts from concept through deployment, including documentation and compliance with the machinery directive, ISO 13849, IEC 62061, IEC 61508, and relevant industrial mobile robot standards such as ANSI R15.08.
• Represent Agility Robotics in safety standards development and influence discussions toward deployable, real-world solutions while upholding ethical and safety priorities.
• Create and maintain key safety deliverables such as risk assessments, safety requirement specifications (SRS), FMEDA, SISTEMA analyses, validation plans, and safety cases.
• Support customer deployments through remote collaboration and on-site visits as needed, ensuring safe and compliant integration of robotic systems in dynamic environments.
• Collaborate across disciplines to define, communicate, and validate safety-critical requirements for hardware, embedded software, and control systems.
• Drive architecture-level safety decisions for mobile and legged robots, balancing real-world performance, technical risk, and compliance.