Safety Engineer - Autonomous Machinery

** Candidates must reside in the Mendon, UT or Logan, UT greater area**

We are seeking a Safety Engineer to ensure our autonomous machines are safe both by design and in deployment. This role combines engineering design safety with customer site safety, supporting the safe implementation of autonomous heavy machinery and vehicle systems in real-world operating environments. The Safety Engineer reports to the Blitz Chief and supports both Blitz and Business Development initiatives. The Blitz Team is a rapid-execution engineering group focused on transforming new concepts into working autonomous systems.

As a cross-functional team spanning software, electrical, mechanical, systems, and field operations engineering, Blitz accelerates product development, validates innovative solutions, and helps launch customer pilot programs on real equipment in live operating environments. Team members thrive in a fast-paced setting that values adaptability, hands-on problem solving, collaboration, and a willingness to take ownership of diverse challenges.

• Review mechanical, electrical, controls, and software designs to ensure compliance with safety requirements and lead design safety reviews.
• Conduct and maintain hazard and risk analyses, including HARA, STPA, FMEA, and FTA, for machine systems and control architectures.
• Derive safety requirements from risk assessments and collaborate with engineering teams to ensure requirements are traceable, verifiable, and effectively implemented.
• Determine the required safety integrity or performance level for safety functions and verify that designs achieve the appropriate level of risk reduction.
• Develop verification and validation plans for safety functions, define acceptance criteria, and review test evidence and results.
• Maintain safety documentation, including analyses, requirements, safety cases, verification records, and audit evidence.
• Support engineering teams in integrating safety ownership throughout the design and development lifecycle.
• Capture recurring field and site hazards and translate them into future design requirements and safety improvements.

• Travel to customer locations during project initiation to assess operational environments, including traffic flow, machine-to-person interaction, terrain, visibility, adjacent equipment, infrastructure, and existing site procedures.
• Perform comprehensive site safety evaluations and produce written assessments identifying the conditions and requirements necessary for safe autonomous operation, including any factors that may prevent deployment.
• Develop site safety plans covering operating boundaries, exclusion zones, machine interaction requirements, emergency stop coverage, perimeter protection, access control, signage, communications, and maintenance isolation procedures.
• Define, specify, and verify required protective measures, including guarding, interlocks, emergency stop systems, presence sensing technologies, warning devices, and access controls.
• Establish safe operating envelopes for machines and deployment sites, and provide recommendations regarding readiness for autonomous operation.
• Document customer safety responsibilities and deliver training to operators, maintenance personnel, supervisors, and safety teams.
• Serve as the primary safety liaison for customer operations and safety leadership, while advising commercial and project teams on safety-related constraints early in the project lifecycle.
• Support onsite verification activities and functional testing to confirm safety measures have been implemented effectively.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Occupational Safety, or a related technical discipline. Equivalent hands-on experience, including trade, military, or field-based experience, will also be considered.
• Minimum of three years of engineering experience where machine, equipment, or operational safety was a significant responsibility in industrial environments such as mining, quarrying, manufacturing, food processing, distribution, construction, agriculture, or similar industries.
• Five or more years of relevant experience preferred. Candidates from plant maintenance, controls engineering, industrial or manufacturing engineering, machine integration, machine building, or mine safety backgrounds are encouraged to apply. Deep expertise in either design safety or site safety, combined with the aptitude to develop capability in the other area, will be…