Senior Safety Systems Engineer

AIM builds autonomy for the real world robots that move mountains.

Our systems combine software hardware robotics and mission-critical infrastructure into ruggedized autonomous machines operating on jobsites around the world. Safety is a system-level property that must be designed across the autonomy stack machine controls hardware operator interfaces and operational workflows.

We are building the safety architectures and validation frameworks that allow autonomous heavy machinery to operate reliably around people equipment and critical infrastructure.

You are a systems thinker with experience designing or validating safety-critical systems.

You understand how safety emerges from the interaction of hardware software autonomy operators and the environment. You think in terms of hazards failure modes degraded behavior mitigation and validation.

You are comfortable working across robotics controls hardware software and field operations and you translate safety analysis into real engineering requirements and system behavior.

As a Senior Safety Systems Engineer you will own major safety workstreams across AIMs autonomous machines including:

• Develop system-level safety architectures across hardware software autonomy and controls.

• Lead hazard analysis using methods such as FMEA Fault Tree Analysis HAZOP and STPA.

• Define safety requirements mitigations degraded operating modes and fail-safe behaviors.

• Contribute to system safety cases and maintain traceability between hazards requirements mitigations and validation evidence.

• Define safe operating boundaries and Operational Design Domains.

• Develop verification and validation strategies using simulation SIL HIL fault injection and field testing.

• Define safe human-machine interaction operator intervention and emergency-stop behavior.

• Analyze incidents near misses and fleet telemetry to identify emerging safety risks.

• Partner with engineering teams to ensure safety requirements are implemented and validated in production systems.

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Systems Engineering Aerospace Mechanical Electrical Robotics or a related field.

• 5 years of experience with complex or safety-critical systems.

• Experience with FMEA Fault Tree Analysis HAZOP STPA or similar safety methodologies.

• Strong understanding of hardware-software integration.

• Experience developing verification and validation strategies.

• Ability to work across multidisciplinary engineering teams.

• Experience with autonomous systems robotics heavy machinery automotive aerospace or industrial systems.

• Familiarity with standards such as ISO 17757 ISO 19014 ISO 13849 IEC 61508 ISO 26262 or SOTIF.

• Experience with safety cases requirements traceability or certification processes.

• Experience with HIL/SIL testing fault injection fleet telemetry or field validation.

You think at the system level understand how multiple subsystems can interact to create unsafe behavior and can translate safety theory into practical engineering decisions.

You are comfortable balancing the ideal long-term safety solution with the pragmatic mitigation needed to safely move a product forward today.

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