Senior Safety Software Engineer, Collaborative Robots
$195-210k
Plus equity
Office located in Santa Clara, CA
Robotics company
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Robotics company
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$195-210k
Plus equity
Office located in Santa Clara, CA
21-100 employees
Company mission
To create a world where humans and robots collaborate in a trusted partnership.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer, Electrical, Robotics, or Software Engineering (or related field)
- 5+ years developing embedded or real-time software for safety-critical or regulated systems
- Strong C/C++ skills for low-level and embedded development
- Experience with RTOS, firmware bring-up, device drivers, and MCU peripherals
- Hands-on work with IEC 61508 or comparable safety standards (ISO 26262, DO-178C, ISO 13849)
- Proficiency in safety analysis methods (FMEA, FTA, HARA, STPA)
- Ability to produce high-quality documentation and follow structured, traceable development processes
- Strong cross-functional communication skills
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup and small, interdisciplinary teams
- Must have and maintain US work authorization
Desirable
- Advanced degree (Master’s or PhD) in a relevant field
- Experience architecting SIL-rated compute or control subsystems and preparing certification evidence
- Background evaluating safety-rated compute hardware, software components, and toolchains
- Familiarity with safety case development, safety argumentation, and lifecycle safety artifacts
- Experience with asymmetric multicore MCUs, redundancy techniques, or mixed-criticality systems
- Knowledge of industrial robot safety standards (ISO 10218, ISO 12100, ISO 13849)
- Experience with regulatory engagement, audits, and safety documentation
- Understanding of sensor fusion, perception, or robotics system integration
- Experience promoting a safety-first culture through hazard analysis, incident response, and training
What the job involves
- As a Senior Safety Software Engineer, you’ll take ownership of the architecture and software that make this possible
- You’ll help shape how safety is designed, tested, deployed, and continually improved across our robots
- You will respond effectively to incidents, and maintain the rigorous standards required for certification and regulatory approvals
- This role offers the opportunity to influence not just the product, but the organizational culture around safety — partnering across teams, guiding technical decisions, and elevating our functional safety capabilities
- If you’re motivated by the challenge of enabling safe autonomy at industrial scale, we’d love to meet you
- Architect and deliver safety-critical software and compute subsystems, including SIL-rated designs, documentation, and evidence for certification and regulatory review
- Evaluate and integrate safety-rated hardware, software components, and development toolchains, ensuring performance, reliability, and compliance with functional safety standards
- Analyze real-world and simulated operational data to assess safety performance, identify risks, and contribute to continuous fleet-level improvements and mitigations
- Contribute to the product safety case and safety culture, partnering across engineering and operations to embed safety into design, development, and deployment
Our take
Cobot is a robotics manufacturer setting out to incorporate robots into our everyday, having them work alongside us in all walks of life. It is building a collaborative robot named "Cobot", but so far remains mysterious by not disclosing any details as to what exactly it will be. It has, however, explained that its robotic systems will be neither humanoid or a mobile manipulator, instead focussing on the synergy between humans and robots - hence the titular nod to collaboration.
Collaborative robots are expected to account for about 10% of total industrial robot sales by 2025, so Cobot's target could certainly be a lucrative one. Founded in 2022, the company has already caught attention for its "Flywheel Program", that delivers hands-on experience with robotics deployments for its clients' teams.
The company is initially looking to target sectors such as bio-tech, logistics, healthcare and manufacturing and it’ll be exciting to see how this grows as the company scales. It’s still early days for Cobot, and though all the talk behind the project is thrilling, we will have to wait to see if the product lives up to both ambitions and its impressive funding rounds.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2024
$100m
SERIES B
Jul 2023
$30m
SERIES A
Total funding: $140m
Company HQ
Santa Clara, CA
Leadership
Brad Porter
(CEO & Founder)Previously CTO of Scale AI and worked for over a decade at Amazon through several roles, ultimately as VP and Distinguished Engineer of Robotics.
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