Senior System Safety Engineer - Autonomous Vehicle Systems

AeroVect; Colorado; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

AeroVect is transforming ground handling with autonomy, redefining how airlines and ground service providers operate day-to-day. The Senior Safety Engineer will execute core safety lifecycle tasks across AeroVect's software and hardware platforms.

You will perform quantitative hardware safety analyses, derive hardware safety requirements, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure safety is integrated, testable, and verified for airport deployment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on safety engineering 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.

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, 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.

Skills

System safety analysis

Requirements derivation

Cross-functional collaboration

Hardware safety engineering

FMEDA

Failure rate modeling

FMEDA workflows

ISO 26262

Education

BS/MS in CS/EE/Systems Eng/Robotics

Tools

SN 29500

IEC 61709

MIL-HDBK-217

Telcordia SR-332

Job description

AeroVect is transforming ground handling with autonomy, redefining how airlines and ground service providers operate day-to-day. The Senior Safety Engineer will execute core safety lifecycle tasks across AeroVect's software and hardware platforms.

You will perform quantitative hardware safety analyses, derive hardware safety requirements, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure safety is integrated, testable, and verified for airport deployment.