Product Safety Design Engineer

About the job

As a Safety Engineer in Platforms Engineering, you will play a key role in the development of one of the world's most impressive computing infrastructures. Your objective will be to collaborate closely with our Product Development Teams to propose, evaluate and qualify design features which enhance the level of product safety as well as to ensure compliance to relevant worldwide safety standards. This will involve engaging with various disciplines (Electrical, Mechanical, Thermal, Power, etc.) as early as possible in the Research and Development (R&D) cycle to ensure compliance by design rather than retrofit at a later time.

In addition you will be required to proactively interface with the compliance team to ensure all requirements have been implemented from a practical perspective.

US: $159000 - $230000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Work closely with hardware design teams and suppliers to understand new project architectures. Determine the appropriate safety standards and regulations.
• Apply Hazard Based Safety Engineering principles to evaluate the hazards. Provide feedback to the design team to mitigate those hazards.
• Develop test plans and lead a compliance testing team to extract key data to validate all safety goals are met in accordance with relevant standards and specifications. Resolve non-compliant issues by the most efficient and cost effective methods.
• Cultivate good working relationships with customers, external suppliers, agencies, and manufacturing to further safety goals. Help in developing strategy and roadmap for Safety initiatives to support power, cooling, and data center infrastructure.
• Domestic and international business travel may be required. Communicate and document findings, risks and recommendations, perform failure analysis to sustaining engineering teams of deployed products.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience working in product safety, or 3 years of experience with an advanced degree.
• 1 year of experience in technical leadership.
• Experience with test equipment such as oscilloscopes, hi-pot testers, electronic loads, etc.
• Experience with procedures related to obtaining international product safety approvals (CB, CE, NRTL/C, BIS CRS, KC, RCM, BSMI, CCC, etc.).

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related field.
• Experience working within full product delivery life-cycles in a dynamic fast-paced environment.
• Experience with large-scale fire and fault condition testing.
• Experience in Product Safety specifically with Information Technology Equipment, liquid cooling and cooling distribution units.
• Knowledge of the regulatory landscape and requirements in data center applications.