--- title: 'Systems Engineer, Safety at Bedrock Robotics Inc' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/systems-engineer-safety-bedrock-robotics-inc-san-francisco-9a4vxkcacf8f' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-12' --- # Systems Engineer, Safety at Bedrock Robotics Inc - **Company:** Bedrock Robotics Inc - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-09-08 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/bedrock-robotics/18001e6d-4431-4da4-8484-d2a46926f625 ## Job description Join the team bringing advanced autonomy to the built world At Bedrock, we're moving AI out of the lab and into the real world. Our team includes veterans who helped launch Waymo, scaled Segment to a $3.2B acquisition, and grew Uber Freight to $5B in revenue. Today, we're deploying autonomous systems on heavy construction equipment across the country, improving safety on job sites and accelerating schedules on critical infrastructure projects. We're not here debating the future of AI. We're deploying it in the real world. In just two years, we've raised $350M and achieved the first fully autonomous excavator deployments in construction. This is where algorithms meet steel-toed boots. You'll work alongside construction veterans and world-class engineers to solve physical-world problems that simulations can't touch. If you're ready to do meaningful work on hard problems, we'd love to have you join us. ## About the Role Bedrock is looking for a Systems Engineer with safety engineering experience to define and maintain the system-level architecture that allows autonomous construction equipment to operate safely around people and other equipment. This role sits at the intersection of systems engineering and functional safety: the person in it will decompose system-level requirements across hardware, software, and mechanical subsystems, while ensuring that safety analysis and safety requirements are built into that architecture from the start rather than added afterward. This role will work directly with the teams designing sensing, compute, and actuation systems, and will be expected to make and defend technical tradeoffs that affect both system performance and safety posture. ## What You'll Do - Develop actionable requirements and metrics for the system, with a focus on safety - Support development of the functional safety concept and supporting technical safety concepts for the system - Define and maintain system-level architecture and interface requirements across hardware, software, and mechanical subsystems - Lead or contribute to safety analyses, such as HARA, FMEA, STPA, and FTA, and translate findings into system and hardware requirements - Define safety mechanisms such as redundancy, diagnostics, watchdogs, and graceful degradation, and verify their implementation - Participate in design reviews across hardware, software, and mechanical disciplines, with particular attention to failure modes and safety-relevant interfaces - Work with the V&V lead to establish verification and validation plans, including test methodology - Support root cause analysis for field and test issues where system-level or safety-relevant causes are suspected ## What We're Looking For - 8+ years of experience in systems engineering, with direct involvement in functional safety work products (e.g., under ISO 13849, ISO 26262, or IEC 61508) - Strong ability to work with data to drive system understanding and feature prioritization and develop trade studies - Experience with verification and validation methods - Experience with safety analysis and risk assessment methods - Experience writing and decomposing system-level requirements, and tracing them through to verification - Familiarity with safety mechanisms such as redundancy, watchdogs, diagnostics, and fault detection - Bachelor's or advanced degree in systems engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, or a related field - Ability to work across hardware, software, and mechanical teams and communicate technical tradeoffs clearly in writing and in review ## Preferred Qualifications - Experience with autonomous or robotic systems, particularly those operating in unstructured or dynamic environments - Experience with STPA - Experience with third-party safety assessment (e.g., TÜV, UL) - Familiarity with sensing and compute hardware relevant to autonomy (cameras, lidar, GNSS, IMUs) - Experience with heavy equipment, construction, mining, or agricultural machinery Bedrock Robotics is an Equal Opportunity Employer We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic. Reasonable Accommodations We want our hiring process to be accessible to everyone. If you need an accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, please let your recruiter know so we can support you. ## About Bedrock Robotics Inc ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Bedrock Robotics brings advanced autonomy to heavy machinery, upgrading existing construction equipment for fully autonomous operation to help the industry build faster and safer. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2024 - **Founders**: Boris Sofman (Co-Founder & CEO), Kevin Peterson (Co-Founder & CTO), Tom Eliaz (Co-Founder & VP, Engineering), Laurent Hautefeuille (Co-Founder & VP, Engineering) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Robotics Engineering / Autonomous Heavy Equipment / Construction Technology - **Target customers**: B2B — construction companies, infrastructure developers, and heavy machinery fleet operators - **Mission or purpose**: Transforming how we develop the world by enabling the construction industry to build at the pace of societal demand through autonomous technology. ## Products & Services - **[Bedrock Operator]**: An autonomous system that retrofits existing heavy equipment (e.g., excavators) to operate independently, adapting to on-site challenges, tracking productivity, and delivering expert-level quality with superhuman safety. Type: Hardware + Software (Autonomy Platform). ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed (latest funding round values the company at a significant premium). - **Key Metric**: Total Funding — $350M raised (Series B of $270M closed in early 2026). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: NVentures (NVIDIA), Valor Equity Partners, 8VC, Eclipse, Tishman Speyer, and 21+ other investors. Backed by key strategic partners in construction and real estate. - **Growth Signals**: - Headcount grew 5,950% YoY (from ~1 to 85 employees in its first year). - Named "Outperformer" among 15 companies including Caterpillar, Sandvik, and Epiroc by CB Insights. - Covered by The New York Times, Forbes, and Engineering News Record for major funding and field deployments. - Completed a major project removing 65,000 cubic yards of dirt on a Southwest construction site. ## Competitive Advantages - **Deep autonomy heritage**: Founding team spent years at Waymo perfecting autonomous systems for complex, safety-critical driving on public roads — a rare and transferable expertise. - **Real-world deployment**: Technology is proven on active construction sites (not just simulations), with tens of thousands of hours of field data. - **Retrofit model**: Upgrades existing heavy equipment rather than requiring new machinery, lowering adoption barriers for construction firms. - **Continuous improvement**: The Bedrock Operator learns and sharpens skills with every project, creating a data moat. ## Strategic Focus - Scaling deployment of autonomous heavy equipment across major construction projects (housing, data centers, energy, factories). - Expanding the range of machinery types that can be retrofitted. - Deepening partnerships with construction firms and equipment manufacturers. - Growing the engineering and field operations teams to accelerate product development and customer support. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: A passionate, product-driven team that works hand-in-hand with customers. Emphasizes real-world impact — field tests on active construction sites generate as much excitement as breakthrough code. - **Work Environment**: Hybrid presence with offices in Downtown San Francisco, Soho (New York City), and test facilities in Texas and California. - **Perks**: Comprehensive health & well-being coverage, daily in-office meals, commuter benefits, unlimited time off, paid parental leave, 401k retirement plan. - **Engineering Focus**: Work on unsolved problems — bringing autonomous technology to market that will revolutionize construction. Exposure across product, technology, and business. First pair of steel-toed boots provided. - **Team**: Collaborate with a diverse group of experts from Waymo, Zoox, Cruise, Caterpillar, and other top robotics/autonomy companies. ## Sources 1. [bedrockrobotics.com](https://bedrockrobotics.com/) 2. [bedrockrobotics.com/about](https://bedrockrobotics.com/about) 3. [bedrockrobotics.com/careers](https://bedrockrobotics.com/careers) 4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/bedrock-robotics) 5. 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