Engineer

Rob Gruendel

Current role not listed

Gruendel brings industrial machinery standards into humanoid robotics. After safety and controls work at Amazon, he led product-safety engineering at Figure and now works at an undisclosed startup, developing safeguards and certification strategies for machinery operating around people.

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Background

Previously

Oct 2024-Sep 2025Principal Safety Engineer – Head of Product Safety,

2019-2024Principal Hardware Development Engineer,

Education

Purdue University

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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: September 19, 2026

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moveRob Gruendel leaves Figure

Figure's former head of product safety later joined an undisclosed startup as principal safety engineer.

September 2, 2025