Senior Safety Architect for Autonomous Machinery

AIM Intelligent Machines, Inc.; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

AIM Intelligent Machines, Inc. is seeking a Senior Safety Systems Engineer to lead safety workstreams for autonomous heavy machinery.

You will own system-level safety architectures across hardware, software, autonomy, and controls, and drive hazard analyses to define mitigations and fail-safe behaviors. You will develop verification strategies using simulation, SIL, and HIL, ensure traceability from hazards to requirements, and define safe operating boundaries and ODIs.

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

Systems thinking

FMEA

HAZOP

STPA

Hardware-software integration

Validation planning

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Systems Engineering / related field

Tools

Simulink

MATLAB

HIL testing

Job description

AIM Intelligent Machines, Inc. is seeking a Senior Safety Systems Engineer to lead safety workstreams for autonomous heavy machinery.

You will own system-level safety architectures across hardware, software, autonomy, and controls, and drive hazard analyses to define mitigations and fail-safe behaviors. You will develop verification strategies using simulation, SIL, and HIL, ensure traceability from hazards to requirements, and define safe operating boundaries and ODIs.