Senior System Safety Engineer

AeroVect; 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

Who We Are

AeroVect is transforming ground handling with autonomy, redefining how 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. For more information, visit www.aerovect.com.

Working under the close guidance and supervision of the Head of Safety, the Senior Safety Engineer will execute core safety lifecycle tasks across AeroVect’s software and hardware platforms:

• System Safety Analysis: Perform hazard identification and risk assessments (HARA, FMEA, FTA, STPA) on the autonomous system architecture and vehicle operation concepts.
• Requirements Derivation: Derive, specify, and trace functional and technical safety requirements (FSRs / TSRs) for both supervised autonomy (safety driver present) and SDO unsupervised autonomy (driverless).
• Cross-Functional Execution: Collaborate directly with systems, software, robotics, hardware, and test teams to ensure safety requirements are integrated, testable, and verified.
• Safety Case Support: Assist in building safety case artifacts and verification evidence required for airport commercial deployment.

You Will

• 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 (SN 29500, IEC 61709, MIL-HDBK-217F, Telcordia SR-332).
• Evaluate drive-by-wire compute hardware, sensor suites (Lidar, Radar, Camera), actuator interfaces, and power distribution systems for single-point and latent faults.
• Derive Hardware Safety Requirements (HSRs) for redundant architectures and fail-operational compute nodes.

You Have

• 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.