Systems Safety Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Innovate system-safety approaches for high-stakes integration and certification and own the aircraft / system-level safety-assessment strategy.
• Conduct and own System Safety Assessments (SSA) and the supporting analyses — Functional Hazard Assessment (FHA), Preliminary System Safety Assessment (PSSA), FMEA / FMECA, and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) per ARP4754A / ARP4761.
• Architect and validate new, complex system-of-systems and integration approaches where no legacy approach can be drawn upon; establish architectures that become the program standard and reduce cost or schedule.
• Apply Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE): Apply MBSE methods with tools like Cameo/MagicDraw to support system development activities, including requirements analysis, system design, and interface definition.
• Architect major, long-term system programs — full vehicle system architecture, Iron Bird integration, and avionics / flight-controls integration — and define the overall verification and integration strategy for a vehicle program or major system.
• Support system-level certification strategy and means-of-compliance approach for a vehicle program, defining the certification basis for airworthiness (in accordance with ARP4754A).
• Serve as the primary technical Subject Matter Expert (SME) during internal audits and regulatory interactions; own certification artifacts, compliance evidence, and verification-by-analysis credit toward the certification basis.
• Develop and maintain the system certification plan and coordinate certification deliverables across subsystems, applying DO-178C / DO-254 / MIL-STD-882 as applicable to establish airworthiness of software, complex hardware, and system safety.
• Provide technical leadership and direction to multidisciplinary, integrated product teams — aligning mechanical, electrical, software, and test engineers around shared architecture, interface, and verification goals.
• Set the technical vision and priorities for a systems discipline and lead the team to consensus and decisions under ambiguity, without relying on formal reporting authority.
• Actively mentor, coach, and develop Senior (P3) engineers and engineers in other disciplines, building the team's technical bench strength and next generation of leaders.
• Act as the primary Systems interface for major integrated product teams and influence cross-functional engineering leadership to ensure successful integration and certification.
• Lead or establish technical partnerships with suppliers, integrators, and regulatory airworthiness authorities.
• Work with wide autonomy — independent for weeks — setting technical objectives and approaches for major programs without leadership oversight.
• Lead root-cause analysis to resolve highly ambiguous, multi-variable, cross-system anomalies that impact critical program milestones.
• Innovate robust solutions that proactively prevent problems, with a demonstrated ability to reduce program cost or schedule.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in systems, Aerospace, Electrical, Mechanical, or a related engineering discipline with 8+ years of experience; or
• Master's degree with 6+ years of experience; or
• PhD with 3+ years of experience.
• Broad mastery across subsystems and disciplines beyond the candidate's core area.
• Direct aerospace / aircraft systems experience, including taking systems through the certification lifecycle with airworthiness authorities (FAA / EASA) under ARP4754A, and serving as a technical SME during regulatory interactions and audits.
• Proven, hands-on experience conducting System Safety Assessments (SSA) and the associated safety analyses — FHA, PSSA, FMEA / FMECA, and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) to ARP4761, with results integrated into the certification basis.
• Expertise in system-of-systems architecture, interface definition, and end-to-end verification & integration for complex vehicle programs.
• Command of MBSE and requirements/verification tool chains (e.g., DOORS, Jama, Cameo/Rhapsody SysML) and analysis environments (MATLAB, Python, Simulink).
• Ability to define model architecture, fidelity, and digital-thread strategy and to establish model credibility and validation (VV&A) standards.
• Demonstrated leadership of cross-system root-cause analysis and of certification-oriented system-safety work.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and motivate multidisciplinary engineering teams to deliver against demanding technical milestones — leading through influence and technical credibility rather than direct authority.
• Strong mentorship and coaching skills, with a track record of developing engineers and growing overall team capability.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills across engineering, program leadership, suppliers, and regulatory authorities.
• Sound technical judgment and decisiveness that build trust, resolve conflict, and align teams under ambiguity.

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