2 days ago
Base Salary
$200k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Collaborate on system-level risk assessments and allocate risk-reduction measures to software and AI elements.
- Break down software safety requirements into subsystem- and element-level requirements.
- Define software safety architectures covering partitioning, freedom from interference, watchdogs, diagnostics, monitoring, communication integrity, startup/shutdown behavior, and fault handling.
- Lead software FMEA, fault-tree, dependent/common-cause failure, timing, and resource analyses.
- Specify safety-related software behavior, including monitors, diagnostics, and safe-state logic, and review designs against IEC 61508-3.
- Define the IEC 61508-3 software safety plan and lifecycle and assess team conformance through reviews and audits.
- Assess systematic software capability and verification evidence, including coverage, static analysis, fault injection, software-in-the-loop, and hardware-in-the-loop results.
- Apply the AI safety lifecycle to AI/ML-enabled functions and assess data, model, performance, and operational-design-domain assurance.
- Own software requirements traceability and the software portion of the safety case, including standards gap assessments.
- Support certification and demonstration of standards conformity with product safety and compliance teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field, or equivalent experience; a master’s degree is preferred.
- At least 8 years of relevant engineering experience, including substantial responsibility for safety assurance or analysis of safety-critical software in complex electromechanical products.
- Demonstrated experience analyzing and assuring safety-critical software architectures and developing safety cases.
- Practical experience with IEC 61508-3 or ISO 26262-6 software lifecycles and qualification of existing software and tools.
- Knowledge of embedded software architectures, RTOS, mixed-criticality partitioning, watchdogs, communication buses, and diagnostics.
- Hands-on experience with FMEA/FMEDA, FTA, dependent-failure analysis, fault injection, software-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and test coverage review.
- Working knowledge of AI/ML safety, including ISO/IEC TS 22440; familiarity with ISO/PAS 8800, UL 4600, or SOTIF is preferred.
- Experience with requirements and traceability tools such as JAMA; familiarity with Git, CI/CD, and static analysis.
- Certification or third-party assessment experience is preferred.
- Ability to work cross-functionally and make risk-based engineering decisions.
- Experience with product development and product lifecycle processes such as Agile, CMMI, and Waterfall.
Benefits
- Direct-hire position.
- Annual base salary range of $200,000–$240,000.
- Equal employment opportunity protections are provided.
- The role involves prolonged desk and computer work and may require lifting up to 15 pounds.
About Apptronik
Apptronik designs and manufactures AI-enabled humanoid robots, led by its Apollo platform, to automate tasks alongside people in manufacturing and logistics, with potential use in healthcare and homes. The privately held company is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and grew out of the University of Texas at Austin’s Human Centered Robotics Lab; its team previously worked on NASA’s Valkyrie robot. Apptronik’s business model centers on selling robots and the software and services needed to deploy them in industrial environments.