Senior System Safety Engineer
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AeroVectAutonomous Aviation
RemoteFull-TimeSenior
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years
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 technical mentorship in an agile engineering team.
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Robotics, or a related discipline.
- Proven mastery of FIT rate modeling and component failure rate calculation methods (SN 29500, IEC 61709, MIL-HDBK-217).
- Deep knowledge of FMEDA workflows.
- ISO 26262-5 mastery including hardware architectural metrics (SPFM, LFM) and diagnostic strategies.
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 for 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.
- Perform quantitative hardware safety analyses, including FMEDA, diagnostic coverage, and PMHF.
- Calculate hardware failure rates using standards such as SN 29500, IEC 61709, MIL-HDBK-217F, and Telcordia SR-332.
- Evaluate drive-by-wire compute hardware, sensor suites, and actuator interfaces for faults.
- Derive Hardware Safety Requirements for redundant architectures and compute nodes.
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