Senior Safety Architect for Autonomous Robotics

MVP Ventures; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

AIM is seeking a Senior Safety Systems Engineer in Seattle to design and validate safety-critical systems for autonomous machinery. You will shape system-level safety architectures across hardware, software, autonomy, and controls, and lead hazard analyses to define mitigations and safe operating modes.

You will implement verification strategies using simulation, SIL/HIL, fault injection, and field testing, while ensuring traceability from hazards to requirements and validation evidence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant engineering 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 FMEA, Fault Tree Analysis, HAZOP, and STPA.
• Define safety requirements, mitigations, degraded operating modes, and fail-safe behaviors.
• 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 and emergency-stop behavior.
• Analyze incidents, near misses, and fleet telemetry to identify safety risks.
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure safety requirements are implemented and validated in production systems.

Skills

Systems thinking

Safety engineering

Hazard analysis

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Systems Engineering or related field

Tools

FMEA

Fault Tree Analysis

HAZOP

STPA

Job description

AIM is seeking a Senior Safety Systems Engineer in Seattle to design and validate safety-critical systems for autonomous machinery. You will shape system-level safety architectures across hardware, software, autonomy, and controls, and lead hazard analyses to define mitigations and safe operating modes.

You will implement verification strategies using simulation, SIL/HIL, fault injection, and field testing, while ensuring traceability from hazards to requirements and validation evidence.