Senior Software Safety Engineer
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COMPENSATION
$160k – $180k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Senior level role
- Fully remote
- Autonomous vehicles
- ISO 26262 & SOTIF
- C++ and Python
Join AeroVect as a Senior Software Safety Engineer to safeguard autonomous vehicles used by major airlines and ground service providers. You will execute core safety lifecycle tasks, from hazard identification to verification, ensuring safe commercial deployment of driverless technology.
What you'll do
- Perform hazard identification and risk assessments like HARA, FMEA, FTA, and STPA.
- Derive and trace functional and technical safety requirements for autonomous operations.
- Collaborate with systems, software, and hardware teams to integrate safety requirements.
- Conduct software hazard analyses on perception, planning, and control modules.
- Execute software FMEA, FTA, and freedom-from-interference analyses.
- Define monitoring and fail-safe mechanisms for Linux and RTOS environments.
- Review safety-critical C++ and Python code to ensure compliance with standards.
- Develop Safety Performance Indicators to track safety metrics over time.
What you'll need
- Five or more years of safety engineering experience in AV, automotive, or aerospace.
- Background in autonomous driving systems or mobile robotics.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Robotics.
- Five or more years of software development or safety experience in C++, Python, or ROS.
- Deep understanding of software safety lifecycles and ASIL decomposition.
- Experience analyzing autonomous vehicle software pipelines including perception and planning.
- Ability to work effectively within a high-velocity agile engineering team.
Stack
- C++
- Python
- ROS
- ROS2
- Linux
- RTOS
How you'll work
- Fully remote position
- Reports to Head of Safety
- Agile engineering environment