Key Skills

Job Description

Who We Are AeroVect is transforming ground handling with autonomy, redefining how airlines and ground service providers around the globe run day-to-day operations. We are a Series A company backed by top-tier venture capital investors in aviation and autonomous driving. Our customers include some of the world’s largest airlines and ground handling providers. For more information, visit www.aerovect.com. Working under the close guidance and supervision of the Head of Safety, the Senior Safety Engineer will execute core safety lifecycle tasks across AeroVect’s software and hardware platforms: System Safety Analysis: Perform hazard identification and risk assessments (HARA, FMEA, FTA, STPA) on the autonomous system architecture and vehicle operation concepts. Requirements Derivation: Derive, specify, and trace functional and technical safety requirements (FSRs / TSRs) for both supervised autonomy (safety driver present) and SDO unsupervised autonomy (driverless). Cross-Functional Execution: Collaborate directly with systems, software, robotics, hardware, and test teams to ensure safety requirements are integrated, testable, and verified. Safety Case Support: Assist in building safety case artifacts and verification evidence required for airport commercial deployment. You Will Perform Quantitative Hardware Safety Analyses, including FMEDA, hardware diagnostic coverage analysis, and Probabilistic Metric for random Hardware Failures (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. You Have 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 for automotive, aerospace, or industrial robotics. 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 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, 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.

Core Responsibilities

Perform system and quantitative hardware safety analyses for autonomous vehicle platforms, derive and trace safety requirements, and assess hardware failure rates, diagnostic coverage, and fault tolerance. Collaborate with engineering and test teams to integrate and verify safety requirements, and support safety case evidence for airport deployment.

Requirements

Requires at least five years of safety engineering experience and five years in hardware safety engineering, electrical reliability, or failure-rate modeling, with experience in autonomous driving or mobile robotics. Candidates should have a relevant bachelor's or master's degree and strong knowledge of FIT-rate modeling, FMEDA, component failure-rate methods, and ISO 26262 hardware metrics.