Senior Safety Engineer - Autonomous Vehicle Systems

AeroVect Technologies Inc.; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

AeroVect Technologies Inc. is transforming ground handling with autonomous systems. The Senior Safety Engineer will drive hardware safety analyses, derive safety requirements, and collaborate across software, robotics, and hardware teams to ensure robust safety cases for airport deployments.

You will perform FMEDA, assess sensor suites, compute failure rates, and help build verification evidence under mentorship from a Principal Safety Engineer in a fast-moving, agile environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on safety engineering in autonomous systems, automotive, aerospace, or IEC/industrial safety.
• 5+ years in hardware safety engineering, EE reliability, or failure rate modeling for automotive, aerospace, or industrial robotics.
• Background with autonomous driving systems or mobile robotics.
• Ability to work under the mentorship of a Principal Safety Engineer in a fast-paced team.
• B.S./M.S. in CS, EE, Systems Eng., Robotics, or related field.
• Mastery of FIT rate modeling and failure rate calculations (SN 29500, IEC 61709, MIL-HDBK-217) and FMEDA workflows.
• Deep knowledge of hardware metrics (SPFM, LFM) and diagnostic strategies in ISO 26262-5.

Responsibilities

• Perform Quantitative Hardware Safety Analyses: FMEDA, diagnostic coverage, PMHF.
• Compute failure rates for components and systems using standard methods (SN 29500, IEC 61709, MIL-HDBK-217).
• Evaluate drive-by-wire compute hardware, sensors (Lidar, Radar, Camera), actuators, and power distribution for faults.
• Derive Hardware Safety Requirements (HSRs) for redundant architectures and fail-operational nodes.

Skills

Autonomous safety engineering

Hazard analysis

Failure rate modeling

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentorship under senior engineer

Education

B.S. or M.S. in CS, EE, Systems, Robotics

Tools

FMEDA workflows

Reliability modeling tools

Job description

AeroVect Technologies Inc. is transforming ground handling with autonomous systems. The Senior Safety Engineer will drive hardware safety analyses, derive safety requirements, and collaborate across software, robotics, and hardware teams to ensure robust safety cases for airport deployments.

You will perform FMEDA, assess sensor suites, compute failure rates, and help build verification evidence under mentorship from a Principal Safety Engineer in a fast-moving, agile environment.