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Senior Software Safety Engineer

💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-31 → 2026-09-26

Core

Execute safety lifecycle tasks for autonomous software and hardware platforms, ensuring safety requirements are integrated, testable, and verified for commercial deployment.

Role type

Senior IC software safety engineer (autonomous systems)

Builds

Autonomous ground handling systems for airlines and ground service providers

Domain

Autonomous driving / Mobile robotics / Aviation ground operations

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Hazard identification and risk assessment (HARA, FMEA, FTA, STPA), Software safety requirements derivation (SSRs), Freedom-from-interference (FFI) analysis, Safety-critical code review (C++/Python), Safety performance indicator development, ASIL decomposition, Unit/integration test strategies, Static analysis tools

Preferred skills

Experience with ROS/ROS2, Multi-core and Linux/RTOS environments, Perception/motion planning/localization/vehicle control modules analysis

Technologies

C++, Python, ROS, ROS2, Linux, RTOS

Responsibilities

Conduct software hazard and safety analyses per ISO 26262-6 and SOTIF (ISO 21448), Derive and trace functional and technical safety requirements for supervised and unsupervised autonomy, Collaborate with systems, software, robotics, hardware, and test teams, Review safety-critical code with development teams, Develop Safety Performance Indicators

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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