Safety Coordinator / Lab Lead
Scale AI · San Francisco, CA · Physical AI Operations · listed June 5, 2026
The shape of it
Seniority
Senior
Experience asked
3+ years
Where
Not stated
Stated pay
$134,400 – $168,000 USD
Requirements listed
4
Length
1,022 words
In the posting’s own words
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 .
What it asks for · 4
- 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.
Tools and skills named
Ways of working
- Technical writing6×
- Testing5×
- Cross-functional2×
Security & compliance
- Audit2×
Words the posting leans on
- safety17×
- physical10×
- lab7×
- documentation6×
- hardware6×
- incident6×
- robotics5×
- experience4×
- physical testing4×
- safety audits4×
- build3×
- communication3×
- culture3×
- ensure3×
- incident documentation3×
- management3×
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