Senior System Safety Engineer

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Aero Vect 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

• Texas, USA
• Florida, USA
• Paris, France
• Italy
• Berlin, Germany
• Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Toronto, ON, Canada
• Poland
• Munich, Germany
• South San Francisco, CA, USA
• Dublin, Ireland
• Frankfurt, Germany
• Colorado City, CO, USA
• Stockholm, Sweden
• Texas City, TX, USA
• Florida City, FL, USA
• United Kingdom
• London, UK
• Vancouver, BC, Canada
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• Atlanta, GA, USA
• Remote

Posted on Aug 1, 2026

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Aero Vect
Other Engineering
Colorado, USA

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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