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Systems Safety Engineer
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Overland AI .
Founded in 2022 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Overland AI is transforming land operations for modern defense with its OverDrive autonomy stack and OverWatch C2 interface.
Overland AI has secured funding from prominent defense tech investors and built trusted partnerships with DARPA, the U.S. Army, Marine Corps, and Special Operations Command.
Role Summary Overland AI is hiring Systems Safety Engineers to lead system safety engineering across our autonomous vehicles and programs. These roles sit within the Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test (SEIT) organization and partner closely with systems engineers, designers, and test teams to ensure safety is fully integrated into requirements, architecture, design, integration, and verification activities.
Key Responsibilities
Develop and maintain system safety analyses in accordance with MIL-STD-882E and applicable customer or regulatory guidance.
Perform PHAs, FHAs, SHAs, SSHAs, and O&SHAs as appropriate to system maturity, incorporating operational concepts, mission scenarios, and anticipated use cases.
Apply standard system safety analysis techniques (hazard analysis, FMEA/FMECA, fault tree analysis, functional hazard assessment).
Define safety requirements and constraints and ensure they are correctly flowed into system and subsystem requirements.
Review system architectures, autonomy behaviors, software-controlled functions, integration approaches, and operational workflows to identify hazards.
Facilitate cross-functional safety discussions with system and technical leads.
Provide independent technical assessment of system designs and proposed mitigations.
Analyze software-controlled and autonomy-driven behaviors to capture software-based safety controls.
Maintain hazard tracking with traceability from hazards through mitigations, safety requirements, and verification activities.
Develop and maintain the system safety case integrating hazard analyses, design controls, operational assumptions, and verification evidence.
Ensure the safety case evolves with system design, configuration changes, and operational refinement.
Define safety-focused test objectives, acceptance criteria, and verification strategies aligned with system requirements.
Collaborate with Test & Evaluation teams to represent safety-driven objectives in test plans and procedures.
Participate in lab, vehicle, and field test events to assess safety performance and mitigation effectiveness.
Review and evaluate verification evidence to confirm safety controls are effective.
Support readiness reviews, safety releases, and risk acceptance processes.
Prepare safety documentation and technical inputs required for ATEC-led evaluations, customer reviews, and non-DoD certification efforts.
Support technical reviews and safety discussions with government and commercial stakeholders.
Communicate safety rationale, risk posture, and supporting evidence to internal leadership and external reviewers.
Contribute to company safety processes, templates, and standards.
Help establish consistent safety practices across prototypes, fielded systems, and future production platforms.
Mentor engineers and help raise overall system safety maturity within the organization.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline.
Experience performing system safety engineering for complex systems (autonomy, robotics, vehicles, aerospace, defense, or similar).
Knowledge of existing standards and regulations relevant in the automotive industry, including ISO 26262, ISO 21448, UL 4600, MIL-STD-883E, and JSSSEH.
Experience developing and maintaining safety artifacts suitable for external review (SAR).
Ability to operate independently and exercise sound engineering judgment in risk assessment.
Comfort working in hands‑on, fast-moving environments with real hardware and field testing.
What Will Set You Apart
Direct experience supporting ATEC, DoD test agencies, or similar certification authorities.
Direct experience in the design and development of autonomous vehicles or advanced ADAS applications.
Experience with autonomous or semi-autonomous systems.
Experience supporting both developmental testing and operational/test readiness activities.
Experience with SysML modeling and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tools (Cameo, Goal Structured Notation).
Experience with managing requirements (Jama, Doors) and issue tracking (JIRA).
Location The preferred location for this position is onsite in Seattle, WA.
Compensation Annual Base Pay: $170,000 – $225,000 USD
Benefits
Equity compensation
Best-in-class healthcare, dental, and vision plans
Unlimited PTO
401(k) with company match
Parental leave
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Systems Safety Engineer
role at
Overland AI .
Founded in 2022 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Overland AI is transforming land operations for modern defense with its OverDrive autonomy stack and OverWatch C2 interface.
Overland AI has secured funding from prominent defense tech investors and built trusted partnerships with DARPA, the U.S. Army, Marine Corps, and Special Operations Command.
Role Summary Overland AI is hiring Systems Safety Engineers to lead system safety engineering across our autonomous vehicles and programs. These roles sit within the Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test (SEIT) organization and partner closely with systems engineers, designers, and test teams to ensure safety is fully integrated into requirements, architecture, design, integration, and verification activities.
Key Responsibilities
Develop and maintain system safety analyses in accordance with MIL-STD-882E and applicable customer or regulatory guidance.
Perform PHAs, FHAs, SHAs, SSHAs, and O&SHAs as appropriate to system maturity, incorporating operational concepts, mission scenarios, and anticipated use cases.
Apply standard system safety analysis techniques (hazard analysis, FMEA/FMECA, fault tree analysis, functional hazard assessment).
Define safety requirements and constraints and ensure they are correctly flowed into system and subsystem requirements.
Review system architectures, autonomy behaviors, software-controlled functions, integration approaches, and operational workflows to identify hazards.
Facilitate cross-functional safety discussions with system and technical leads.
Provide independent technical assessment of system designs and proposed mitigations.
Analyze software-controlled and autonomy-driven behaviors to capture software-based safety controls.
Maintain hazard tracking with traceability from hazards through mitigations, safety requirements, and verification activities.
Develop and maintain the system safety case integrating hazard analyses, design controls, operational assumptions, and verification evidence.
Ensure the safety case evolves with system design, configuration changes, and operational refinement.
Define safety-focused test objectives, acceptance criteria, and verification strategies aligned with system requirements.
Collaborate with Test & Evaluation teams to represent safety-driven objectives in test plans and procedures.
Participate in lab, vehicle, and field test events to assess safety performance and mitigation effectiveness.
Review and evaluate verification evidence to confirm safety controls are effective.
Support readiness reviews, safety releases, and risk acceptance processes.
Prepare safety documentation and technical inputs required for ATEC-led evaluations, customer reviews, and non-DoD certification efforts.
Support technical reviews and safety discussions with government and commercial stakeholders.
Communicate safety rationale, risk posture, and supporting evidence to internal leadership and external reviewers.
Contribute to company safety processes, templates, and standards.
Help establish consistent safety practices across prototypes, fielded systems, and future production platforms.
Mentor engineers and help raise overall system safety maturity within the organization.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline.
Experience performing system safety engineering for complex systems (autonomy, robotics, vehicles, aerospace, defense, or similar).
Knowledge of existing standards and regulations relevant in the automotive industry, including ISO 26262, ISO 21448, UL 4600, MIL-STD-883E, and JSSSEH.
Experience developing and maintaining safety artifacts suitable for external review (SAR).
Ability to operate independently and exercise sound engineering judgment in risk assessment.
Comfort working in hands‑on, fast-moving environments with real hardware and field testing.
What Will Set You Apart
Direct experience supporting ATEC, DoD test agencies, or similar certification authorities.
Direct experience in the design and development of autonomous vehicles or advanced ADAS applications.
Experience with autonomous or semi-autonomous systems.
Experience supporting both developmental testing and operational/test readiness activities.
Experience with SysML modeling and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tools (Cameo, Goal Structured Notation).
Experience with managing requirements (Jama, Doors) and issue tracking (JIRA).
Location The preferred location for this position is onsite in Seattle, WA.
Compensation Annual Base Pay: $170,000 – $225,000 USD
Benefits
Equity compensation
Best-in-class healthcare, dental, and vision plans
Unlimited PTO
401(k) with company match
Parental leave
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