Senior System Safety Engineer

AeroVect; Town of Poland (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

AeroVect is seeking a Senior Safety Engineer to drive hardware safety analyses and safety case artifacts for autonomous ground-handling platforms. You will work under the Head of Safety, collaborating with systems, software, robotics, and hardware teams to ensure safety requirements are implemented and verified.

Requirements include 5+ years in safety engineering for autonomous or industrial systems, with deep ISO 26262/ DO-178C/ DO-254 knowledge and FMEDA workflows.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on safety engineering in autonomous systems, automotive, aerospace, or industrial safety.
• 5+ years in hardware safety engineering, reliability, or failure rate modeling.
• Background in autonomous driving or mobile robotics.
• Ability to work under a Principal Safety Engineer in a fast-paced agile team.
• Degree in CS/EE/Systems/Robotics or related discipline.
• Mastery of FIT rate modeling and FMEDA workflows.
• Deep knowledge of hardware metrics (SPFM, LFM) and diagnostic strategies.

Responsibilities

• Perform Quantitative Hardware Safety Analyses (FMEDA, reliability, PMHF).
• Calculate hardware/system failure rates using standard methods (SN 29500, IEC 61709, MIL-HDBK-217).
• Evaluate drive-by-wire hardware, sensors, actuators, and power distribution for faults.
• Derive Hardware Safety Requirements for redundant architectures and fail-operational nodes.

Skills

Safety engineering

Autonomous vehicles

ISO 26262

FMEDA

FMEDA workflows

Failure rate modeling

Hardware safety

Reliability

Mentorship

Agile team

Education in CS/EE/Robotics

Education

B.S./M.S. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Robotics

Job description

Who We Are

AeroVect is transforming ground handling with autonomy, redefining how airlines and ground service providers around the globe run day-to-day operations. We are a Series A company backed by top-tier venture capital investors in aviation and autonomous driving. Our customers include some of the world’s largest airlines and ground handling providers. For more information, visit www.aerovect.com.

Working under the close guidance and supervision of the Head of Safety, the Senior Safety Engineer will execute core safety lifecycle tasks across AeroVect's software and hardware platforms:

• System Safety Analysis: Perform hazard identification and risk assessments (HARA, FMEA, FTA, STPA) on the autonomous system architecture and vehicle operation concepts.
• Requirements Derivation: Derive, specify, and trace functional and technical safety requirements (FSRs / TSRs) for both supervised autonomy (safety driver present) and SDO unsupervised autonomy (driverless).
• Cross-Functional Execution: Collaborate directly with systems, software, robotics, hardware, and test teams to ensure safety requirements are integrated, testable, and verified.
• Safety Case Support: Assist in building safety case artifacts and verification evidence required for airport commercial deployment.

You Will

• Perform Quantitative Hardware Safety Analyses, including FMEDA, hardware diagnostic coverage analysis, and Probabilistic Metric for random Hardware Failures (PMHF).
• Calculate hardware component and system failure rates using standard methodologies (SN 29500, IEC 61709, MIL-HDBK-217F, Telcordia SR-332).
• Evaluate drive-by-wire compute hardware, sensor suites (Lidar, Radar, Camera), actuator interfaces, and power distribution systems for single-point and latent faults.
• Derive Hardware Safety Requirements (HSRs) for redundant architectures and fail-operational compute nodes.

You Have

• 5+ years of hands-on safety engineering experience in autonomous vehicles, automotive (ISO 26262), aerospace (DO-178C/DO-254), or industrial safety (IEC 61508).
• 5+ years in hardware safety engineering, EE reliability, or failure rate modeling for automotive, aerospace, or industrial robotics.
• Prior background working with autonomous driving systems or mobile robotics.
• Proven ability to work under the technical mentorship of a Principal Safety Engineer in a high-velocity agile engineering team.
• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Robotics, or a related discipline.
• Proven mastery of FIT rate modeling, component failure rate calculation methods (SN 29500, IEC 61709, MIL-HDBK-217), and FMEDA workflows.
• ISO 26262-5 Mastery: Deep knowledge of hardware architectural metrics (SPFM, LFM) and hardware diagnostic strategies.