Senior System Safety Engineer - Autonomous Vehicle Safety

AeroVect Technologies Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

AeroVect Technologies Inc. is seeking a Senior Safety Engineer to lead hardware safety across autonomous platforms. You will perform hazard analyses, derive safety requirements, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to verify safety artifacts for autonomous and driverless operations.

You will evaluate hardware, sensors, and compute architectures, applying FMEDA, FMEA, and failure rate modeling to ensure compliant safety cases for deployment in aviation ground handling contexts.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on safety engineering experience in autonomous vehicles, automotive, aerospace, or industrial safety.
• 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 mastery of FIT rate modeling, component failure rate calculation methods (SN 29500, IEC 61709, MIL-HDBK-217), and FMEDA workflows.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Hazard analysis

FMEDA

HARA

FMEA

FTA

STPA

ISO 26262

DO-178C/DO-254

Reliability modeling

Failure rate calculation

Education

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

Tools

SN 29500

IEC 61709

MIL-HDBK-217

FMEDA workflows

Job description

AeroVect Technologies Inc. is seeking a Senior Safety Engineer to lead hardware safety across autonomous platforms. You will perform hazard analyses, derive safety requirements, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to verify safety artifacts for autonomous and driverless operations.

You will evaluate hardware, sensors, and compute architectures, applying FMEDA, FMEA, and failure rate modeling to ensure compliant safety cases for deployment in aviation ground handling contexts.