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title: "Senior Software Safety Engineer"
company: "AeroVect"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/aerovect"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/aerovect-senior-software-safety-engineer-b6d7e980-6bb7-4c79-aad1-68a26d2cc7c2"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/aerovect/be9f4570-19c9-4a7e-96c2-adf3c71837a7"
workplace: remote
location: "Remote"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: senior
role: software-engineering
region: other
skills: ["cpp", "linux", "python"]
salary: "$160,000–$180,000 per year"
date_posted: 2026-08-24T19:36:58.353Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-15T19:01:48.529Z
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# Senior Software Safety Engineer

**AeroVect** · Remote

Salary: $160,000–$180,000 per year

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/aerovect/be9f4570-19c9-4a7e-96c2-adf3c71837a7

## About the 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).

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