Safety Coordinator / Lab Lead

Scale AI
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 134,400 - 168,000 annuallyFunction: Laboratory & Clinical OperationsExperience: 3+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Documentation","Leadership","Collaboration","Problem-solving"]

Lead safety audits, incident documentation, RCA investigations, and risk mitigation for Scale AI’s physical testing labs, coordinating across robotics hardware and software teams to maintain a safe, compliant, and efficient R&D environment.

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Scale AI
Scale AI
2 months ago

Safety Coordinator / Lab Lead

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Job Summary

Lead safety audits, incident documentation, RCA investigations, and risk mitigation for Scale AI’s physical testing labs, coordinating across robotics hardware and software teams to maintain a safe, compliant, and efficient R&D environment.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Laboratory & Clinical Operations

Key Responsibilities

  • •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.
  • •Own the end-to-end incident management pipeline. Act as the primary point of contact for documenting, archiving, and analyzing lab incidents, mechanical anomalies, or near-misses.
  • •Lead structured post-incident investigations to identify systematic risks, authoring comprehensive RCA reports and implementing CAPA.
  • •Treat safety data as a core operational asset—tracking safety metrics and audit trends to proactively surface and mitigate physical, electrical, and battery-related hazards.
  • •Build tools/processes and documentation to drive standardization regarding safe work practices across multiple facilities and hold all employees and partners to a high safety bar.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 134,400 - 168,000 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionRetirement BenefitsLearning StipendPaid LeaveCommuter Benefits

Key Requirements

  • •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.
  • •Demonstrated experience building out structured audit workflows and detailed incident documentation pipelines (familiarity with OSHA standards or ISO robotics safety standards is highly valued).
  • •Ability to seamlessly navigate an environment featuring complex physical hardware, multi-modal sensors, and advanced compute rigs.
  • •Exceptional written communication skills for documentation, with the assertive communication style required to enforce safety protocols across a brilliant, fast-moving engineering team.
Experience:3+ yearsRoboticsR&DHardware
Skills:CommunicationDocumentationLeadershipCollaborationProblem-solving
Certifications:OSHAISO robotics safety standards
Languages:English
Tech Stack:5SMotion captureRoboticsSafety

Company Brief

Scale AI
Provides data labeling, annotation, and infrastructure services to accelerate machine learning and AI development. Supplies high-quality training data, tooling, and APIs for customers in autonomous vehicles, mapping, robotics, and enterprise AI applications.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2016
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