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CssmergePosted Sep 1, 2026
Safety Operations Lead
San Franciscofull timeRemotesenior$182k–$230kH1B: no
Cssmerge The Safety Operations Lead at Atoms owns the operational safety discipline, managing incident response, event triage, investigations, and training for safety drivers and autonomous vehicle operations. This hands-on role involves writing processes and leading investigations to scale safety systems.
Responsibilities
- Our safety practice is not a document exercise — it is an operating discipline that has to run at the speed of the fleet. This role owns that discipline. You will stand up and run the operational safety machinery: how we manage incidents, how we train and qualify the people in and around our vehicles, how field events get triaged and routed, and how investigations turn into engineering change. Today these functions exist on a smaller scale. Your job is to make them a coherent system that scales as we add vehicles, routes, and customers.
- This is a hands-on role. You will write the next version of most of these processes yourself, run the first dozen investigations yourself, and only then hire against the parts that need scale.
- Incident management. Own the end-to-end response process: detection, notification, severity classification, on-scene coordination, containment decisions, root cause investigation, corrective action, and closure. Recommend who should have the authority to hold operations and under what conditions, and make sure that authority is real.
- Event triage. Build the pipeline that turns raw field telemetry, disengagements, operator reports, and near-miss data into a ranked, actionable queue. Set the taxonomy and severity model. Own the triage rate, the backlog, and the time-to-disposition — and make those numbers visible to engineering and leadership.
- Investigations. Lead investigations of collisions, disengagements, and anomalous behavior. Drive them to a defensible causal account, not a narrative. Track corrective actions through to verified closure.
- Training and qualification. Design the training and recurrent-qualification program for safety drivers, autonomous vehicle operators, and remote support staff. Own the curriculum, the practical evaluation, and the qualification records.
Qualification
8+ years in safety operationsData-driven by defaultThe disposition this work requiresWillingness to be on-site and on-callExposure to safety management systems
Required
- 8+ years in safety operations, fleet safety, transportation safety, or operational risk in a safety-critical domain — commercial trucking, autonomous vehicles, rail, aviation, or industrial operations. Direct AV or commercial fleet experience is a strong plus but not a hard requirement.
- Demonstrated experience leading real incident investigations to root cause and driving corrective actions to closure. We will ask you to walk through specific investigations in detail.
- Fluency with structured investigation and risk methods — root cause analysis, causal factor charting, human factors analysis, hazard identification — and the judgment to know which one a given event actually warrants.
Benefits
- Dental
- Vision
- 401(k)
- Equity/RSU
- Parental Leave
- Life Insurance
Company
Cssmerge
View company page10000+ employees
Industrial
Founded 1892
Source: greenhouse
Active within the past hour
Remote-friendly