Senior Safety Architect for Autonomous Machinery

AIM Intelligent Machines; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

AIM Intelligent Machines in Seattle seeks a Senior Safety Systems Engineer to own major safety workstreams across our autonomous machines. You will design system-level safety architectures spanning hardware, software, autonomy, and controls.

You will lead hazard analyses (FMEA/HAZOP/STPA), define safe operating boundaries, develop verification strategies, and collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to validate safety in production systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Systems Engineering, Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical, Robotics, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience with complex or safety-critical systems.
• Experience with FMEA, Fault Tree Analysis, HAZOP, STPA, or similar safety methodologies.
• Strong understanding of hardware-software integration.
• Experience developing verification and validation strategies.
• Ability to work across multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop system-level safety architectures across hardware, software, autonomy, and controls.
• Lead hazard analysis using methods such as FMEA, Fault Tree Analysis, HAZOP, and STPA.
• Define safety requirements, mitigations, degraded operating modes, and fail-safe behaviors.
• Contribute to system safety cases and maintain traceability between hazards, requirements, mitigations, and validation evidence.
• Define safe operating boundaries and Operational Design Domains.
• Develop verification and validation strategies using simulation, SIL, HIL, fault injection, and field testing.
• Define safe human-machine interaction, operator intervention, and emergency-stop behavior.
• Analyze incidents, near misses, and fleet telemetry to identify emerging safety risks.
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure safety requirements are implemented and validated in production systems.

Skills

System safety analysis

Hazard analysis

Hardware-software integration

Verification & Validation

Cross-functional collaboration

FMEA/HAZOP/STPA

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Systems Engineering, Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical, Robotics, or related field

Job description

AIM Intelligent Machines in Seattle seeks a Senior Safety Systems Engineer to own major safety workstreams across our autonomous machines. You will design system-level safety architectures spanning hardware, software, autonomy, and controls.

You will lead hazard analyses (FMEA/HAZOP/STPA), define safe operating boundaries, develop verification strategies, and collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to validate safety in production systems.