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Principal Robotics Functional Safety Engineer
Agility Robotics INC · 🇺🇸 Hybrid- Fremont, CA
Sponsorship verdict
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One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 41 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 2 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Agility Robotics INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles7 certified filings for “Staff Robotics Engineer, AI Manipulation” (Software Developers) in CA: $210k–$285k, median $226k. Most were filed at wage level II (71%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
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The US Department of Labor certified 41 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 2 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Agility’s commercially deployed humanoids operate alongside teams in warehouses, manufacturing facilities, and distribution centers—tackling physically demanding and repetitive tasks while enabling workers to focus on higher-value work. With industry-leading safety standards and years of proven deployment data, we're pioneering a new era of automation that enhances human potential. About the Role Agility Robotics is seeking a Principal Robotics Functional Safety Engineer to help lead our safety strategy. This is a high-impact role for an engineer who wants to shape the safety of complex robotic systems from architecture through deployment, and to help set functional safety direction across the broader engineering organization, not just a single product line. We don't think of Agility as only a robotics company. We're proving out what it means to be a safety-of-robotics company, a robotics company and a software company in equal measure, and this team sits at the center of that identity. You'll partner with a functional safety team of diverse backgrounds and collaborate closely with hardware, software, controls, perception, and systems engineering to ensure safety is embedded in every phase of development and verified in the field. Depending on team needs and your strengths, this role may involve deep technical ownership of a specific safety domain, direct support for customer deployments, or helping represent Agility's safety approach in external technical settings. About the Work • Lead functional safety efforts from concept through deployment, including compliance with the machinery directive, ISO 13849, IEC 62061, IEC 61508, and applicable mobile robot standards such as ANSI/RIA R15.08. • Drive architecture-level safety decisions across current and next-generation robotic platforms, balancing real-world performance, technical risk, and compliance. • Create and maintain core safety deliverables: risk assessments, safety requirement specifications (SRS), FMEDA, SISTEMA analyses, validation plans, and safety cases. • Collaborate cross-functionally to define, communicate, and validate safety-critical requirements for hardware, embedded software, and control systems. • Support customer deployments through remote collaboration and on-site visits, ensuring safe and compliant integration in dynamic environments. • Oversee third-party vendors and labs for verification and validation (V&V) activities, including work supporting CE marking and other regulatory certifications. • Coordinate with the compliance team on electrical safety, hazardous materials, and environmental/radio regulations (e.g., NFPA 79, IEC 60204-1, REACH, RoHS, FCC). • Help design and validate functional safety architecture for AI and ML enabled features, ensuring their behavior stays within defined safety limits. • Communicate safety strategy, risks, and requirements clearly across technical and non-technical audiences, including customers and engineering leadership. • Monitor the evolving regulatory and standards landscape relevant to mobile and humanoid robotics, and help evolve internal safety processes accordingly. • Partner with engineering and safety leadership to shape functional safety strategy and priorities across the broader product portfolio, taking ownership of safety outcomes that span multiple teams and programs. • Mentor engineers across the functional safety team and contribute to growing its technical depth and capacity. Depending on interests and business needs, this role may also include opportunities to represent Agility's safety perspective externally through technical publications, conference participation, or engagement with relevant standards committees. These are opportunities that may be available, not a required or guarant