Senior System Safety Engineer

The role

The Senior Safety Engineer will execute core safety lifecycle tasks across software and hardware platforms. This includes performing hazard identification, risk assessments, and deriving safety requirements for autonomous systems.

What you will do

• Perform hazard identification and risk assessments on autonomous system architecture and vehicle operation concepts.
• Derive, specify, and trace functional and technical safety requirements for supervised and unsupervised autonomy.
• Collaborate with systems, software, robotics, hardware, and test teams.
• Assist in building safety case artifacts and verification evidence for airport commercial deployment.
• Perform Quantitative Hardware Safety Analyses including FMEDA, hardware diagnostic coverage analysis, and PMHF.
• Calculate hardware component and system failure rates using standard methodologies.
• Evaluate drive-by-wire compute hardware, sensor suites, actuator interfaces, and power distribution systems.
• Derive Hardware Safety Requirements for redundant architectures and fail-operational compute nodes.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on safety engineering experience in autonomous vehicles, automotive (ISO 26262), aerospace (DO-178C/DO-254), or industrial safety (IEC 61508).
• 5+ years in hardware safety engineering, EE reliability, or failure rate modeling for automotive, aerospace, or industrial robotics.
• Prior background working with autonomous driving systems or mobile robotics.
• Proven ability to work under the technical mentorship of a Principal Safety Engineer in a high-velocity agile engineering team.
• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Robotics, or a related discipline.
• Proven mastery of FIT rate modeling, component failure rate calculation methods (SN 29500, IEC 61709, MIL-HDBK-217), and FMEDA workflows.
• ISO 26262-5 Mastery: Deep knowledge of hardware architectural metrics (SPFM, LFM) and hardware diagnostic strategies.

About the company

AeroVect is a Series A company transforming ground handling with autonomy. Their customers include some of the world's largest airlines and ground handling providers.