Senior System Safety Engineer (Autonomous Vehicles)

Location: Remote or based in the United States, France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, Poland, Ireland, Sweden, or the United Kingdom

Salary: Not specified

Company

AeroVect is a Series A company developing autonomous ground-handling systems for airlines and ground service providers.

What you will do

• Perform hazard identification and risk assessments using HARA, FMEA, FTA, and STPA across autonomous system architectures and vehicle operation concepts.
• Derive, specify, and trace functional, technical, and hardware safety requirements for supervised and driverless autonomy.
• Conduct quantitative hardware safety analyses, including FMEDA, diagnostic coverage analysis, and PMHF calculations.
• Calculate component and system failure rates using SN 29500, IEC 61709, MIL-HDBK-217F, and Telcordia SR-332.
• Evaluate compute hardware, lidar, radar, camera, actuator interfaces, and power distribution systems for single-point and latent faults.
• Collaborate with systems, software, robotics, hardware, and test teams and support safety-case artifacts for airport deployment.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on safety engineering experience in autonomous vehicles, automotive, aerospace, or industrial safety.
• 5+ years of hardware safety engineering, electrical reliability, or failure-rate modeling experience.
• Prior experience with autonomous driving systems or mobile robotics.
• Mastery of FIT-rate modeling, component failure-rate calculations, and FMEDA workflows.
• Deep knowledge of ISO 26262-5, including SPFM, LFM, and hardware diagnostic strategies.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, systems engineering, robotics, or a related discipline.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within a high-velocity agile engineering environment.
• Receive technical mentorship from a Principal Safety Engineer and guidance from the Head of Safety.
• Collaborate across systems, software, robotics, hardware, and test disciplines.
• Contribute to autonomous technology used in commercial airport operations.