Senior System Safety Engineer

AeroVect; United States; A distancia; USD 140.000 - 210.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

AeroVect Technologies Inc. is seeking a Senior Safety Engineer to perform core safety lifecycle tasks across software and hardware platforms.

You will derive safety requirements, perform hazard analyses, and collaborate with multiple teams to ensure safety is verifiable and verifiable for deployment. Ideal candidates have hands-on experience in autonomous driving safety, FMEDA, and risk modeling, with strong knowledge of relevant standards and a track record of cross-functional collaboration

Formación

• 5+ years of hands-on safety engineering with autonomous systems or related fields.
• Strong understanding of ISO 26262, DO-178C/DO-254, or IEC 61508.
• Experience with hazard analysis methods and safety case development.
• Background in autonomous driving systems or mobile robotics is preferred.
• Ability to work under a Principal Safety Engineer in a fast-paced team.

Responsabilidades

• Perform quantitative hardware safety analyses (FMEDA, PMHF) and reliability assessments.
• Derive hardware safety requirements for redundant, fail-operational architectures.
• Evaluate compute hardware, sensors, actuators for single-point and latent faults.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to verify safety requirements and tests.
• Contribute to safety case artifacts and deployment verification activities.

Conocimientos

FMEDA

PMHF

FMEA

HARA

ISO 26262

Safety analysis

Failure rate modeling

FMEDA workflows

Hardware safety

Educación

B.S./M.S. in CS, EE, Systems Eng, Robotics

Descripción del empleo

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.