Senior Software Safety Engineer

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Responsibilities

• ▹Perform hazard identification and risk assessments (HARA, FMEA, FTA, STPA) on the autonomous software architecture and vehicle operation concepts
• ▹Derive, specify and trace functional and technical safety requirements (FSRs/TSRs) for both supervised and unsupervised autonomy
• ▹Collaborate with systems, software, robotics, hardware and test teams to ensure safety requirements are integrated, testable and verified
• ▹Assist in building safety case artifacts and verification evidence for airport commercial deployment
• ▹Conduct software hazard and safety analyses on perception, motion planning, localization and vehicle control modules per ISO 26262-6 and SOTIF (ISO 21448)
• ▹Execute software FMEA/FTA, freedom-from-interference (FFI) analysis and code-level hazard evaluations
• ▹Derive Software Safety Requirements (SSRs) and define monitoring/fail-safe mechanisms within multi-core and Linux/RTOS environments
• ▹Review safety-critical C++/Python code and robotics middleware with development teams
• ▹Develop Safety Performance Indicators to measure safety performance over time

Requirements

• ▹5+ years of hands-on safety engineering experience in autonomous vehicles, automotive (ISO 26262), aerospace (DO-178C/DO-254) or industrial safety (IEC 61508)
• ▹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 team
• ▹B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Robotics or a related discipline
• ▹5+ years of software development or SW safety experience in C++, Python or ROS/ROS2 environments
• ▹Deep understanding of software safety lifecycles, ASIL decomposition for software, unit/integration test strategies and static analysis tools
• ▹Hands-on experience analyzing autonomous vehicle software pipelines (perception, planning, fail-safe state machines)

About the company

AeroVect is transforming ground handling with autonomy, redefining how airlines and ground service providers around the globe run day-to-day operations. It is a Series A company backed by top-tier venture capital investors in aviation and autonomous driving, with customers including some of the world's largest airlines and ground handling providers.