Senior Safety Systems Architect – Autonomous Machines

AIM; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

AIM in Redmond, WA, is seeking a Senior Safety Systems Engineer to lead major safety workstreams across autonomous machines. You will design system-level safety architectures spanning hardware, software, autonomy, and controls.

You will drive hazard analysis (FMEA, FTA, HAZOP, STPA), define safety requirements and mitigations, and ensure traceability from hazards to validation evidence, with verification strategies including SIL, HIL, fault injection, and field testing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a related engineering field.
• 5+ years of experience with complex or safety-critical systems.
• Experience with FMEA, fault tree analysis, HAZOP, STPA.
• Strong hardware–software integration understanding.
• Experience defining verification and validation strategies.
• Ability to collaborate 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.
• 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

Safety-critical systems

FMEA

Fault Tree Analysis

HAZOP

STPA

Hardware–software integration

Cross-functional teamwork

Verification & validation strategies

Education

Bachelor

Master’s degree in Systems Engineering or related field

Tools

FMEA

Fault Tree Analysis

HAZOP

STPA

Job description

AIM in Redmond, WA, is seeking a Senior Safety Systems Engineer to lead major safety workstreams across autonomous machines. You will design system-level safety architectures spanning hardware, software, autonomy, and controls.

You will drive hazard analysis (FMEA, FTA, HAZOP, STPA), define safety requirements and mitigations, and ensure traceability from hazards to validation evidence, with verification strategies including SIL, HIL, fault injection, and field testing.