System Safety Engineer

Overland AI•Seattle, WA

1d•$170,000 - $225,000•Onsite

About The Position

Overland AI is hiring a Systems Safety Engineer for its Systems, Safety, and Test Engineering team. The role owns system safety for autonomous ground vehicles across the full lifecycle, from concept and requirements through integration, testing, and field operations. The engineer works closely with system-building teams while maintaining an independent perspective on risk. The work supports MIL-STD-882E safety programs, ATEC safety releases, and customer certifications across multiple concurrent programs.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related technical discipline.
Hands-on system safety engineering experience on complex systems, such as autonomy, robotics, vehicles, aerospace, or defense.
Working knowledge of MIL-STD-882E or related standards such as JSSSEH, UL 4600, ISO 26262, and ISO 21448.
Experience producing safety artifacts for external review, such as Safety Assessment Reports.
Sound, independent engineering judgment on risk.
Comfort working in a fast-moving environment with real hardware and field testing.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting ATEC or other DoD test and certification authorities.
Experience with autonomous vehicles, ADAS, or semi-autonomous systems.
Experience with developmental and operational test readiness.
Familiarity with MBSE/SysML (such as Cameo), GSN safety cases, requirements tools (Jama, DOORS), and Jira.

Responsibilities

Perform hazard analyses (PHA, FHA, SHA, SSHA, O&SHA, FMEA, and FTA) in accordance with MIL-STD-882E, scaled to system maturity.
Analyze autonomy and software-controlled behaviors, ensuring software safety controls are captured, traced, and verified.
Define safety requirements and flow them into system and subsystem requirements.
Partner with internal teams to drive safety features through implementation.
Maintain hazard tracking and the system safety case, including traceability from hazards to mitigations and verification evidence.
Partner with test teams to establish safety test objectives and acceptance criteria, and participate in lab, vehicle, and field testing.
Evaluate verification evidence and support readiness reviews, safety releases, and risk acceptance decisions.
Prepare safety documentation for ATEC, government, and commercial reviewers, and communicate risk to leadership and external stakeholders.
Help develop safety processes that scale across programs and improve safety maturity across engineering.