Senior Hardware Safety Engineer, Autonomous Vehicles

AeroVect Technologies Inc.; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

AeroVect Technologies Inc. is seeking a Senior Safety Engineer to execute core safety lifecycle tasks across our software and hardware platforms.

You will work under the Head of Safety to identify hazards, derive safety requirements, and verify safety across autonomous ground handling systems. You will perform hardware safety analyses, evaluate sensors and compute hardware, and contribute to safety case artifacts for deployment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on safety engineering experience in autonomous systems or related industries.
• Experience with hardware safety analyses and reliability modeling.
• Proven ability to derive and trace safety requirements (HSRs) and safety cases.
• Strong background in safety standards such as ISO 26262, DO-178C/DO-254 or IEC 61508.

Responsibilities

• Perform Quantitative Hardware Safety Analyses (FMEDA, PMHF) and safety metrics.
• Compute failure rates for hardware components and systems using standard methods.
• Evaluate drive-by-wire compute hardware and sensor suites for faults and resilience.
• Derive Hardware Safety Requirements (HSRs) for redundant and fail-operational architectures.

Skills

Safety engineering

Autonomous vehicles

Hardware safety

FMEDA

Fault modeling

ISO 26262

Systems engineering

Education

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

Tools

SN 29500

IEC 61709

MIL-HDBK-217

Job description

AeroVect Technologies Inc. is seeking a Senior Safety Engineer to execute core safety lifecycle tasks across our software and hardware platforms.

You will work under the Head of Safety to identify hazards, derive safety requirements, and verify safety across autonomous ground handling systems. You will perform hardware safety analyses, evaluate sensors and compute hardware, and contribute to safety case artifacts for deployment.