System Safety Engineer / Principal System Safety Engineer

Description

The company builds aeronautics systems, and this role sits in the aeronautics systems group in Palmdale, CA.

You would join a team of engineers working on complex hardware and software systems, where the ideal person is collaborative, open, transparent, and works well in a team, with a focus on shared responsibility, flexibility, continuous learning, owning work products, and automating how work gets done.

The role is offered at two levels: System Safety Engineer and Principal System Safety Engineer.

Responsibilities

• Apply safety engineering methods and principles from MIL-STD-882, and software safety practices from the Joint Software System Safety Engineering Handbook (JSSSEH).
• Define safety requirements for assigned systems, along with their support equipment, facilities, functional specifications, and operations.
• Write requirements and designs, and assess implementations for hazards and causal factors against critical system safety objectives.
• Review architecture, requirements, and interface artifacts for safety on complex hardware and software systems.
• Analyze independently and recommend safety criteria for system design, equipment, and procedures that control or remove hazards.
• Work with design teams to carry out MIL-STD-882E hazard analyses.
• Prepare and review engineering and technical analyses, reports, change proposals, and other documentation for system safety and for Airworthiness Certification, in accordance with MIL-HDBK-516.
• Review test plans and procedures to confirm safety requirements are verified and to flag potentially hazardous operations.
• Perform software safety analysis, with Agile development experience.
• Communicate clearly with leaders at every level and with customers, and work independently.

Requirements

• System Safety Engineer: a bachelor's degree in a STEM field plus 2 years of experience, or a master's degree in a STEM field.
• Principal System Safety Engineer: a bachelor's degree in a STEM field plus 5 years of experience, or a master's degree in a STEM field plus 3 years of experience.
• An active US Government Secret clearance or higher, with a background investigation completed in the last 6 years or current enrollment in Continuous Evaluation.
• The ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance.
• Experience with MIL-STD-882.
• Experience with preliminary hazard analyses, function, system, and subsystem hazard analyses, fault tree analyses, software system safety analyses, and/or safety assessment reports.
• Experience analyzing, recommending, and building safety into system design, equipment, and procedures to reduce or remove hazards.
• Experience developing, reviewing, updating, and/or approving system safety artifacts and system safety requirements.
• Experience across requirements development, system and software architecture, hardware and software design, code implementation, testing, verification, and validation.
• Preferred: a bachelor's degree in software engineering or computer engineering.
• Preferred: familiarity with requirements tools such as DOORS, Cameo, and CPLM, safety and reliability tools such as PTC Windchill Quality Solutions, and Agile tools such as JIRA, FISHEYE, and/or Confluence.
• Preferred: working knowledge of military safety and process standards and their industry equivalents, such as MIL-STD-882, DO-178B/C, DO-248, DO-254, ARP-4754, ARP-4761, MIL-HDBK-516C, etc.
• Preferred: working knowledge of flight test engineering, software systems integration engineering, and software test engineering.
• Preferred: working knowledge of detect and avoid systems and their process standards, such as DO-365.
• Preferred: experience in hardware and software integration.
• Preferred: experience in system software safety.
• Preferred: experience in military aviation.

Conditions

Travel is required about 10% of the time.

Relocation assistance may be available.

Clearance is required before start.

Non-standard hours and multiple shifts may be required on a part-time basis, and overtime, odd shifts, and weekend work will occasionally be required.

The application period is estimated at 20 days from the posting date, but it may be shortened or extended based on business needs and candidate availability.

Benefits

• The base salary range is $91,800.00 to $137,600.00 at the primary level and $114,000.00 to $171,000.00 at the secondary level. Actual pay depends on the scope of the role and the candidate's experience, education, skills, and the market.
• Depending on the position, you may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus. Annual bonuses reward individual contributions and share company results.
• Vice President and Director roles may be eligible for Long Term Incentives.
• Benefits include health insurance, life and disability insurance, a savings plan, company-paid holidays, and paid time off for vacation and personal business.