Senior System Safety Engineer - Autonomy & Hardware

Roboticsconnected; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

AeroVect is seeking a Senior Safety Engineer to execute core safety lifecycle tasks across software and hardware platforms. Under the guidance of the Head of Safety, you will perform hardware safety analyses and derive safety requirements for both supervised and driverless autonomy.

You will collaborate with systems, software, robotics, hardware, and test teams to ensure safety requirements are integrated and verified.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on safety engineering in autonomous systems.
• Experience with ISO 26262, DO-178C/DO-254, IEC 61508.
• Background in hardware safety engineering and failure-rate modeling.
• Familiarity with FMEDA workflows and reliability assessments.

Responsibilities

• Perform quantitative hardware safety analyses, including FMEDA and PMHF.
• Derive hardware safety requirements for redundant architectures.
• Collaborate with systems, software, robotics, hardware, and test teams to ensure safety integration.
• Assist in safety case artifacts and verification evidence for deployments.

Skills

Autonomous systems safety

ISO 26262

DO-178C/DO-254

IEC 61508

Hardware safety engineering

FMEDA workflows

Failure rate modeling

Hazard analysis (HARA/FMEA/FTA/STPA)

Collaborative cross-functional work

Education

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

Tools

FMEDA tooling

Reliability analysis methods

Job description

AeroVect is seeking a Senior Safety Engineer to execute core safety lifecycle tasks across software and hardware platforms. Under the guidance of the Head of Safety, you will perform hardware safety analyses and derive safety requirements for both supervised and driverless autonomy.

You will collaborate with systems, software, robotics, hardware, and test teams to ensure safety requirements are integrated and verified.