Senior Software Safety Engineer

Remotedxb; Dubai; On-site; AED 260,000 - 380,000; Full time

Job summary

AeroVect is transforming ground handling with autonomous software. This role focuses on hazard analyses, safety requirements, and safety case artifacts across perception, planning, and control modules.

You will derive SSRs, conduct FMEA/FTA, and work with cross-disciplinary teams to ensure verifiable safety for autonomous software architectures and deployments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on safety engineering in autonomous vehicles, aerospace, or industrial safety.
• Background with autonomous driving systems or mobile robotics mandatory.
• Degree in CS, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Robotics or related field.
• 5+ years software development or SW safety in C++, Python, or ROS/ROS2.
• Knowledge of safety lifecycles, ASIL decomposition, unit/integration testing, static analysis.

Responsibilities

• Conduct ISO 26262-6 and SOTIF safety analyses for perception, planning, localization and control.
• Perform FMEA/FTA, freedom-from-interference analyses, and code-level hazard evaluations.
• Derive SSRs and define fail-safe mechanisms in multi-core Linux/RTOS environments.
• Review safety-critical C++/Python code and ROS/ROS2 middleware with teams.
• Develop Safety Performance Indicators to measure safety over time.
• Perform HARA, FMEA, FTA, STPA on autonomous software architecture and operations.
• Collaborate with systems, software, robotics, hardware, and test teams to verify safety requirements.
• Assist in building safety case artifacts and verification evidence for deployment.

Skills

Autonomous safety engineering

Software safety analysis

C++/Python

Education

B.S./M.S. in CS/EE/Robotics

Tools

ROS/ROS2

Static analysis tools

Job description

Responsibilities

• Conduct software hazard and safety analyses on perception, motion planning, localization, and vehicle control modules per ISO 26262-6 and SOTIF (ISO 21448)
• Execute software FMEA/FTA, freedom-from-interference (FFI) analysis, and code-level hazard evaluations
• Derive Software Safety Requirements (SSRs) and define monitoring/fail-safe mechanisms within multi-core and Linux/RTOS software environments
• Review safety-critical C++/Python code and robotics middleware with development teams to ensure software safety standards are met
• Develop Safety Performance Indicators to measure safety performance over time
• Perform hazard identification and risk assessments (HARA, FMEA, FTA, STPA) on the autonomous software architecture and vehicle operation concepts
• Derive, specify, and trace functional and technical safety requirements (FSRs / TSRs) for both supervised autonomy and SDO unsupervised autonomy
• Collaborate with systems, 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

Requirements

• for 5+ years of hands-on safety engineering experience in autonomous vehicles, automotive (ISO 26262), aerospace (DO-178C/DO-254), or industrial safety (IEC 61508)
• Prior background working with autonomous driving systems or mobile robotics
• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Robotics, or a related discipline
• 5+ years of software development or SW safety experience in C++, Python, or ROS/ROS2 environments
• Deep understanding of software safety lifecycles, ASIL decomposition for software, unit/integration test strategies, and static analysis tools
• Hands-on experience analyzing autonomous vehicle software pipelines (perception, planning, fail-safe state machines)

About the Company

AeroVect is transforming ground handling with autonomy, redefining how the most airlines and ground service providers around the globe run day-to-day operations. We are a Series A company backed by top-tier venture capital investors in aviation and autonomous driving. Our customers include some of the world's largest airlines and ground handling providers.