Principal/Staff Systems Engineer, Safety & Architecture

Kodama Systems builds technology to teleoperate and autonomously control heavy equipment in complex, unstructured environments. The Principal/Staff Systems Engineer, Safety & Architecture will own system-level architecture and safety engineering across the company’s teleoperated and autonomous machine platform, including requirements, safety analyses, verification, and cross-disciplinary architectural decisions.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain system requirements, fault behavior, and performance requirements across hardware and software boundaries
• Own system safety analysis, including hazard analyses, safety requirements, FMEAs, fault trees, and analysis of failures or degraded system behavior
• Lead next-generation architecture and requirements for safety-critical control systems, including safety controllers and E-stops
• Translate system and safety requirements into verification strategies and evidence that new capabilities are ready for field deployment
• Ensure Kodama’s architecture and engineering practices appropriately apply relevant safety standards, including BS EN 17067:2018, BS EN 62745:2017, and ISO 17757:2019
• Serve as a technical resource to customers, OEM partners, and other external stakeholders on system architecture and safety

Requirements:

• BS or advanced degree in electrical, mechanical, systems, or a related engineering field, or equivalent practical experience
• Significant experience designing or integrating complex, safety-critical electromechanical systems, with the ability to reason across hardware, software, networking, controls, and physical-machine behavior
• Experience developing system requirements and interfaces and applying system or functional safety methods through design, integration, and verification
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-disciplinary technical decisions and willingness to get hands-on with debugging, data, and machine testing when needed
• Autonomous vehicles, mobile robotics, heavy equipment, aerospace, defense, or other safety-critical cyber-physical systems
• Functional safety standards such as ISO 17757, ISO 13849, IEC 61508, IEC 62061, ISO 26262, or related frameworks
• Hands-on certification or third-party safety assessment work with organizations such as TÜV or UL
• Teleoperation, distributed robotics, or safety-critical networking and communications
• Embedded systems, safety controllers, PLCs, CAN/J1939, hardware-in-the-loop testing, or fault injection
• Robotics perception, localization, planning, control, or autonomy safety
• Off-road or unstructured operating environments