Safety Coordinator Lab Lead

At Scale we believe that the next frontier of artificial intelligence is embodied. The Physical AI team is focused on building general AI that can reason and act in the physical world. By leveraging Scales massive industry-leading data infrastructure we are partnering with frontier labs to build Foundation Models for Physical AI that will redefine the future of automation.

To support our rapid hardware-software iteration cycles and ensure a world-class R&D environment we are looking for a Safety Coordinator / Lab Lead to anchor our physical testing operations.

As the Safety Coordinator / Lab Lead you will play a mission-critical role in scaling our physical testing infrastructure safely and efficiently. This is a high-impact position where your highest-priority responsibility will be owning the end-to-end execution of safety audits and incident documentation.

Operating at the intersection of cutting-edge AI foundation models and complex robotics hardware you will ensure our researchers engineers and autonomous systems interact in a secure compliant and highly organized environment.

• Rigorous Safety Audits: Design schedule and execute routine safety audits across all physical testing environments robot cells and hardware workspaces to ensure continuous compliance with internal benchmarks and industrial safety standards.
• Incident & Near-Miss Documentation: Own the end-to-end incident management pipeline. Act as the primary point of contact for documenting archiving and analyzing any lab incidents mechanical anomalies or near-misses.
• Root-Cause Analysis (RCA): Lead structured post-incident investigations to identify systematic risks authoring comprehensive RCA reports and implementing Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA).
• Data-Driven Risk Mitigation: Treat safety data as a core operational assettracking safety metrics and audit trends to proactively surface and mitigate physical electrical and battery-related hazards.
• Cross-functional standardization & accountability: Build the tools/processes and associated documentation to drive standardization regarding safe work practices across all multiple facilities. Build mechanisms to hold all employees and partners to a high bar for safety in any Robotics facility.

• Daily Lab Operations: Manage the layout organization and upkeep of our physical testing arenas and motion-capture volumes using 5S or equivalent workplace organization methodologies.
• Hardware & Asset Management: Oversee the inventory calibration and maintenance of specialized robotics hardware compute nodes and safety gear (PPE).
• Cross-Functional Coordination: Collaborate closely with hardware and software engineering teams to smoothly manage workspace allocation for concurrent foundation model testing tracks.

• Onboarding & Compliance: Develop update and deliver mandatory safety onboarding modules for all incoming engineers researchers and partners.
• Culture Champion: Cultivate a proactive safety-first culture that matches the velocity of Scales rapid AI development without compromising on physical guardrails.

• Experience: 3 years of experience in lab management safety coordination or technical operations within a high-velocity robotics aerospace automotive or autonomous vehicle R&D environment.
• Safety Protocols: Demonstrated experience building out structured audit workflows and detailed incident documentation pipelines (familiarity with OSHA standards or ISO robotics safety standards is highly valued).
• Technical Comfort: Ability to seamlessly navigate an environment featuring complex physical hardware multi-modal sensors and advanced compute rigs.
• Communication & Drive: Exceptional written communication skills for documentation with the assertive communication style required to enforce safety protocols across a brilliant fast-moving engineering team.

PLEASE NOTE:Our policy requires a 90-day waiting period before reconsidering candidates for the same role. This allows us to ensure a fair and thorough evaluation of all applicants.

About Us:

At Scale our mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the worlds most important decisions. Our products provide the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the worlds leading models and help enterprises and governments build deploy and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact. We work closely with industry leaders like Meta Ernst & Young Mayo Clinic Time Inc. the Government of Qatar and U.S. government agencies including the Army and Air Force. We are expanding our team to accelerate the development of AI applications.

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