Senior System Safety Engineer

Responsibilities

• ▹Perform hazard identification and risk assessments (HARA, FMEA, FTA, STPA) on the autonomous system architecture and vehicle operation concepts
• ▹Derive, specify and trace functional and technical safety requirements (FSRs/TSRs) for both supervised and unsupervised (driverless) 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
• ▹Perform quantitative hardware safety analyses (FMEDA, hardware diagnostic coverage, PMHF)
• ▹Calculate hardware component and system failure rates using standard methodologies (SN 29500, IEC 61709, MIL-HDBK-217F, 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

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)
• ▹5+ years in hardware safety engineering, EE reliability, or failure rate modeling
• ▹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
• ▹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

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.