Senior System Safety Engineer

Role overview Own key parts of the safety lifecycle for autonomous vehicle hardware and software, with technical guidance from safety leadership. The work combines system hazard analysis, quantitative hardware reliability assessment, safety requirements, and evidence needed to support deployment in operational environments.

Responsibilities - Identify hazards and assess risk across system architecture and operating concepts using methods such as HARA, FMEA, FTA, and STPA. - Derive and trace functional, technical, and hardware safety requirements for supervised and driverless autonomy. - Perform FMEDA, diagnostic coverage analysis, and calculations of random hardware failure metrics. - Model component and system failure rates using established reliability references and methods. - Assess compute hardware, sensors, actuators, and power distribution for single-point and latent faults; define requirements for redundant and fail-operational designs. - Work with systems, software, robotics, hardware, and test teams to make safety requirements verifiable and support safety case evidence.

Requirements - At least five years in safety engineering for autonomous vehicles, automotive, aerospace, industrial safety, or a related regulated field. - At least five years in hardware safety, electrical reliability, or failure-rate modeling for automotive, aerospace, or industrial robotics. - Experience with autonomous driving systems or mobile robotics. - Strong command of FIT-rate modeling, component failure-rate methods, and FMEDA workflows. - Deep knowledge of ISO 26262 hardware metrics, including SPFM and LFM, and diagnostic strategies. - Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, electrical or systems engineering, robotics, or a related discipline. - Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-moving engineering team and apply senior technical guidance.

Nice to have Experience applying standards and methods such as ISO 26262, IEC 61508, DO-178C/DO-254, SN 29500, IEC 61709, MIL-HDBK-217F, or Telcordia SR-332.