Senior System Safety Engineer — Autonomous Vehicles

AeroVect; Washington; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

AeroVect is transforming ground handling with autonomy, delivering safety-focused autonomous systems for airlines and ground service providers worldwide. The Senior Safety Engineer will lead quantitative hardware safety analyses, FRF/HTR derivations, and safety-case support across software and hardware platforms.

You will collaborate with systems, software, robotics, hardware, and test teams to ensure safety requirements are traceable, testable, and verifiable.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on safety engineering experience in autonomous systems or related industries.
• Experience with ISO 26262, DO-178C/DO-254, or IEC 61508.
• Background in hardware safety engineering and failure-rate modeling.
• Experience with autonomous driving systems or mobile robotics.
• BS or MS in CS/EE/Systems Engineering/Robotics.

Responsibilities

• Perform quantitative hardware safety analyses including FMEDA and PMHF.
• Calculate failure rates using SN 29500, IEC 61709, MIL-HDBK-217.
• Evaluate drive-by-wire compute hardware, sensors, actuators for faults.
• Derive Hardware Safety Requirements for redundant architectures and fail-operational nodes.

Skills

Safety engineering

Hazard analysis

Systems engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical mentorship

Education

B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Robotics

Tools

FMEDA

HARA/FMEA/FTA/STPA

SN 29500

IEC 61709

MIL-HDBK-217F

FMEDA workflows

Job description

AeroVect is transforming ground handling with autonomy, delivering safety-focused autonomous systems for airlines and ground service providers worldwide. The Senior Safety Engineer will lead quantitative hardware safety analyses, FRF/HTR derivations, and safety-case support across software and hardware platforms.

You will collaborate with systems, software, robotics, hardware, and test teams to ensure safety requirements are traceable, testable, and verifiable.