2 months ago
Base Salary
$160k - $180k/yr
Responsibilities
- Perform hazard identification and risk assessments using HARA, FMEA, FTA, and STPA for autonomous software architecture and vehicle operations.
- Derive, specify, and trace functional, technical, and software safety requirements for supervised and driverless autonomy.
- Conduct software FMEA/FTA, freedom-from-interference analysis, and code-level hazard evaluations.
- Define monitoring and fail-safe mechanisms in multi-core Linux/RTOS software environments.
- Review safety-critical C++ and Python code and robotics middleware for compliance with software safety standards.
- Collaborate with systems, software, robotics, hardware, and test teams to ensure safety requirements are integrated, testable, and verified.
- Support safety case artifacts and verification evidence for airport commercial deployment.
- Develop safety performance indicators to measure safety performance over time.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on safety engineering experience in autonomous vehicles, automotive, aerospace, or industrial safety.
- Experience with autonomous driving systems or mobile robotics.
- 5+ years of software development or software safety experience in C++, Python, or ROS/ROS2 environments.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Robotics, or a related discipline.
- Deep understanding of software safety lifecycles, ASIL decomposition, unit and integration test strategies, and static analysis tools.
- Hands-on experience analyzing autonomous vehicle software pipelines, including perception, planning, and fail-safe state machines.
- Experience working under the technical mentorship of a Principal Safety Engineer in a high-velocity agile engineering team.
About AeroVect
AeroVect builds autonomous driving systems and software to automate airport ground service equipment, improving ramp logistics for airlines, airports, and ground handling providers. It deploys and supports autonomy for fleets used by major carriers and ground service companies. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in South San Francisco, it is a privately held Series A company.