Senior System Safety Engineer - Autonomous Systems Reliability

AeroVect Technologies Inc.; Colorado; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

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

You will perform hazard analyses, derive safety requirements, and collaborate with systems, software, robotics, and hardware teams to ensure verifiable safety across the product line. Ideal candidates will have 5+ years in safety engineering for autonomous vehicles or industrial safety, with expertise in FMEDA, FIT-rate modeling, and relevant

Qualifications

• 5+ years in autonomous vehicles or safety engineering in automotive/aerospace/industrial safety.
• 5+ years hardware safety engineering, EE reliability, or failure rate modeling.
• Prior background with autonomous driving systems or mobile robotics.
• Proven ability to mentor in a high-velocity agile team.
• B.S. or M.S. in CS/EE/Systems/Robotics or related field.
• Mastery of FIT rate modeling and FMEDA workflows.
• Deep knowledge of hardware architectural metrics (SPFM, LFM) and diagnostic strategies.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Hardware safety engineering

Systems safety analysis

Autonomous vehicles experience

Reliability modeling

FMEDA

ISO 26262

Do-178C/DO-254

Team collaboration

Education

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

Job description

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

You will perform hazard analyses, derive safety requirements, and collaborate with systems, software, robotics, and hardware teams to ensure verifiable safety across the product line. Ideal candidates will have 5+ years in safety engineering for autonomous vehicles or industrial safety, with expertise in FMEDA, FIT-rate modeling, and relevant