Senior System Safety Engineer

AeroVect • Remote, Remote

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About The Position

AeroVect is seeking a Senior Safety Engineer to execute core safety lifecycle tasks across its software and hardware platforms under the close guidance and supervision of the Head of Safety. The role focuses on system safety analysis, derivation and traceability of safety requirements, cross-functional execution, and support for safety case artifacts and verification evidence needed for airport commercial deployment.

The position has a significant hardware safety focus, including quantitative hardware safety analyses, failure-rate calculations, evaluation of autonomous vehicle hardware for faults, and derivation of requirements for redundant and fail-operational architectures. The engineer will work with systems, software, robotics, hardware, and test teams in a high-velocity agile engineering environment, with technical mentorship from a Principal Safety Engineer.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of hands-on safety engineering experience in autonomous vehicles, automotive (ISO 26262), aerospace (DO-178C/DO-254), or industrial safety (IEC 61508).
• At least 5 years in hardware safety engineering, electrical engineering reliability, or failure-rate modeling for automotive, aerospace, or industrial robotics.
• Prior background working with autonomous driving systems or mobile robotics.
• 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.
• Mastery of FIT rate modeling, component failure-rate calculation methods (SN 29500, IEC 61709, MIL-HDBK-217), and FMEDA workflows.
• Deep knowledge of ISO 26262-5 hardware architectural metrics (SPFM, LFM) and hardware diagnostic strategies.

Responsibilities

• Perform hazard identification and risk assessments, including HARA, FMEA, FTA, and STPA, on autonomous system architecture and vehicle operation concepts.
• Derive, specify, and trace functional and technical safety requirements for supervised autonomy and driverless SDO autonomy.
• Collaborate with systems, software, robotics, hardware, and test teams to ensure safety requirements are integrated, testable, and verified.
• Assist in building safety case artifacts and verification evidence required for airport commercial deployment.
• Perform quantitative hardware safety analyses, including FMEDA, hardware diagnostic coverage analysis, and Probabilistic Metric for random Hardware Failures (PMHF).
• Calculate hardware component and system failure rates using standard methodologies, including SN 29500, IEC 61709, MIL-HDBK-217F, and Telcordia SR-332.
• Evaluate drive-by-wire compute hardware, lidar, radar and camera sensor suites, actuator interfaces, and power distribution systems for single-point and latent faults.
• Derive Hardware Safety Requirements for redundant architectures and fail-operational compute nodes.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior