Role summary
SENIOR MACHINE SAFETY AND COMPLIANCE ENGINEER
The organization is a well-funded, rapidly growing, and inclusive company that has developed a custom automation robotics system to pick and pack online orders of groceries and other consumables, bringing delight and a value proposition to consumers that doesn't exist today. Additionally, its unique design and technology is purpose-built to solve today's environmental problems in the world's food supply chain. Founded by a team with previous startup success and backed by top-tier VCs, we are committed to reducing waste, improving environmental impact, and reducing emissions with truly new technology. Our first commercial product launch with the technology was in summer 2022.
Responsibilities
- Lead compliance effort to regulations, standards and guidelines established by ANSI, ISO, OSHA, NSF, UL and other applicable regulatory agencies, through the entire product life cycle
- Interface with NRTL / external agencies for certification, specifying and performing testing, defining which standards are appropriate, and clarifying and debating about intent of the standards
- Work with customers to validate the organization equipment meets their internal safety requirements and procedures
- Help develop functional safety architectures for new automation systems and design upgrades to existing systems
- Provide safety requirements across the company and mentor other engineers on best safety practices
- Review plans and specifications for new machinery and equipment to ensure they meet safety requirements and are designed for operator safety
- Perform, and assist others in performing, risk assessments on equipment and processes
- Identify and correct potential hazards by inspecting facilities, machinery, and safety equipment
- Participate in safety system implementation at new sites and performance of on-site equipment safety testing and validation
- Work with operations to write safety manuals for the organization equipment that will be provided to customers
- B.S in a hardware related engineering discipline, e.g. electrical, mechanical, industrial, process, manufacturing etc.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience designing systems for safety compliance
- Experience designing and testing functional safety systems to ISO 13849 and/or .
- Experience developing and certifying capital equipment to UL, ANSI and/or ISO standards with external certification authorities
- Experience performing risk assessments for complex products
- Hands on aptitude – able to dive in and implement and troubleshoot safety systems
- Clear understanding of human-factors engineering—the consideration of information about human users in the design of machines, jobs, and work environments
- Safety Certifications in Functional and Machine Safety (CEFS, CMSE etc)
- Experience developing custom safety logic/components to ISO 13849 and/or
- Experience managing engineering projects
- Familiarity with both Windows and Linux operating systems as well as Git software version control
- Not afraid of robots
- A chance to be an early team member and leader of a rapidly growing startup and have an impact on company and technology direction
- The ability to solve challenging problems with a skilled, dedicated and friendly multi-disciplinary team
- A balanced, highly collaborative work environment
- A Hybrid work structure