AeroVect
Senior Software Safety Engineer
- Location
- Remote · Selected locations
- Arrangement
- Remote
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Level
- Senior
- Posted
- 24 August 2026 (about a month ago)
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About this role
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 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).
Locations
- South SF, US
- IT
- PL
- Stockholm, SE
- London, GB
- Berlin, DE
- Amsterdam, NL
- Paris, FR
- Washington, US
- Frankfurt, DE
- Colorado, US
- Munich, DE
- Atlanta, GA, US
- Dublin, IE
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Published 24 August 2026, last checked about a month ago. A posting stops being advertised here 90 days after the employer published it, and one the employer takes down is marked closed rather than quietly removed.