Senior , Product Safety Engineer

Boston Dynamics is looking for a Senior Staff, Product Safety Engineer to join our product safety and compliance team. The Product Safety and Compliance team drives a systematic approach to the design, test, and manufacture of safe products at Boston Dynamics.

As a Product Safety Engineer, you will provide independent safety assurance for our legged robotic systems across the full product lifecycle. The role will develop and maintain safety strategies, safety cases, safety requirements, safety assurance processes and objective evidence across hardware, software, firmware, controls, AI/ML, perception, actuation, and human-robot interaction. The role will evaluate the safety impact of product and software changes, support release and update governance , and ensure safety practices remain robust as robotic platforms, capabilities, and operational environments evolve.

This role partners closely with Product, Systems Engineering/System Safety Engineering, Hardware, Software, Firmware, AI/ML, Quality, Security, and Legal, to confirm safety requirements are properly defined, implemented, verified, and validated. You will also help translate applicable standards and regulatory expectations into practical engineering and operational processes. This role is key to shaping the future of our mobile robots.

We’re looking for creative, passionate product safety engineers with strong backgrounds in autonomous systems, to tackle one of the biggest challenges in the field: robot safety. You will help set the practical standards by which our robots sense, plan, and act safely, and you’ll shape how Boston Dynamics demonstrates that its systems are safe. Boston Dynamics is a world leader in mobile robots, tackling some of the toughest robotics challenges.

For years, our awe-inspiring viral videos on You Tube have shown the world what remarkably capable robots can do. Now we are quickly becoming a recognized leader in automation solutions for industrial applications and warehouse logistics.

• Provide safety assurance across the full technical stack (hardware through AI/ML) and support readiness reviews and safety gate sign-off for new capabilities (e.g., autonomous navigation, dynamic locomotion, manipulation, human-robot interaction
  -HRI, AI-enabled behaviors).
• Develop and evaluate V&V strategies, acceptance criteria, test coverage, and objective safety evidence ensuring safety requirements and risk controls perform as intended.
• Prepare recommendations and evaluate safety analyses, claims, mitigations, and readiness evidence across perception, planning, controls, locomotion, actuation, and HRI to determine if claims are adequately supported.
• Evaluate safety implications of releases, firmware updates, model changes, configuration changes, and hardware revisions – including drive-by-wire actuation, fault detection, and safe-state behavior – as part of change impact assessments.
• Support incident investigations, corrective actions, post-market monitoring, and incorporation of field learning into safety assurance.
• Collaborate with engineering teams and Safety Case owners to ensure consistency in safety processes, evidence quality, rigor, maturity across products and platforms.
• Translate global and domestic regulations, standards, and certification expectations into internal safety policy and procedures and support continuous improvement of the Safety.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Robotics, or related discipline
• 6+ years in product safety, systems safety, functional safety, safety assurance, verification & validation (V&V), robotics, autonomous systems, automotive, aerospace, medical devices or…