Senior System Safety Engineer, Autonomous Vehicle Systems

AeroVect

Farmville (VA)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

10 hours ago

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Job summary

AeroVect is transforming ground handling with autonomy, delivering safety-critical software and hardware for autonomous operations. The Senior Safety Engineer will drive system safety lifecycle tasks across autonomous platforms, collaborating with systems, software, robotics, hardware, and test teams to ensure safety requirements are integrated and verified.

You will develop quantitative hardware safety analyses, derive HSRs for redundancy, and support safety case artifacts for deployment in

Qualifications

5+ years of hands-on safety engineering experience in autonomous vehicles, automotive (ISO 26262), aerospace (DO-178C/DO-254), or IEC 61508.
5+ years in hardware safety engineering, EE reliability, or failure rate modeling for automotive, aerospace, or industrial robotics.
Background in autonomous driving systems or mobile robotics.
Ability to work under a Principal Safety Engineer in a fast-paced agile team.
B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Robotics, or related discipline.
Mastery of FIT rate modeling and component failure rate methods (SN 29500, IEC 61709, MIL-HDBK-217) and FMEDA workflows.
ISO 26262-5 Mastery: hardware architectural metrics (SPFM, LFM) and diagnostic strategies.

Responsibilities

Perform Quantitative Hardware Safety Analyses, including FMEDA, hardware diagnostic coverage, and PMHF.
Calculate hardware failure rates using SN 29500, IEC 61709, MIL-HDBK-217F, Telcordia SR-332.
Evaluate drive-by-wire compute hardware, sensor suites (Lidar, Radar, Camera), and power systems for faults.
Derive Hardware Safety Requirements for redundant architectures and fail-operational compute nodes.