Senior System Safety Engineer, Autonomous Vehicle Hardware

AeroVect Technologies Inc.; Washington; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

AeroVect Technologies Inc. is transforming ground handling with autonomous systems and safety engineering. We are seeking a Senior Safety Engineer to lead hardware safety analyses across our software and sensor platforms, reporting to the Head of Safety.

You will perform FMEDA, hazard assessments, and safety case contributions for supervised and driverless autonomy, collaborating with systems, software, robotics, and test teams to ensure verifiable safety across the fleet.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on safety engineering experience in autonomous systems.
• Experience with ISO 26262, DO-178C/DO-254, IEC 61508.
• Background in autonomous driving or mobile robotics.
• Mentorship in a fast-paced agile engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Perform Quantitative Hardware Safety Analyses, including FMEDA, diagnostics, and PMHF.
• Calculate hardware failure rates using standard methods (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

Safety engineering

Autonomous vehicles

Reliability modeling

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

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

Tools

FMEDA

FMEA

FTA

STPA

Job description

AeroVect Technologies Inc. is transforming ground handling with autonomous systems and safety engineering. We are seeking a Senior Safety Engineer to lead hardware safety analyses across our software and sensor platforms, reporting to the Head of Safety.

You will perform FMEDA, hazard assessments, and safety case contributions for supervised and driverless autonomy, collaborating with systems, software, robotics, and test teams to ensure verifiable safety across the fleet.