Senior Software Safety Engineer

## **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 [](http://www.aerovect.com). Working under the close guidance and supervision of the Head of Safety, the Senior SW 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 software 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 - Conduct software hazard and safety analyses on perception, motion planning, localization, and vehicle control modules per **ISO 26262-6** and **SOTIF (ISO 21448)**. - Execute software FMEA/FTA, freedom-from-interference (FFI) analysis, and code-level hazard evaluations. - Derive Software Safety Requirements (SSRs) and define monitoring/fail-safe mechanisms within multi-core and Linux/RTOS software environments. - Review safety-critical C++/Python code and robotics middleware with development teams to ensure software safety standards are met. - Develop Safety Performance Indicators to measure safety performance over time. ## 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). - 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. - 5+ years of software development or SW safety experience in C++, Python, or ROS/ROS2 environments. - Deep understanding of software safety lifecycles, ASIL decomposition for software, unit/integration test strategies, and static analysis tools. - Hands-on experience analyzing autonomous vehicle software pipelines (perception, planning, fail-safe state machines).