Senior System Safety Engineer

RTX•Tucson, AZ
•$95,500 - $181,700•Onsite

About The Position

Raytheon’s System Safety / Human System Integration Department ensures product safety by identifying hazards, assessing risks, and implementing solutions to protect people, hardware, and the environment. The team applies engineering principles throughout the system lifecycle to enhance reliability and safeguard warfighters. Senior System Safety Engineers develop and execute system safety programs, coordinate with customer and government stakeholders, collaborate across engineering disciplines, and provide safety oversight from program startup through production, demilitarization, and disposal. These are primarily onsite roles located in Tucson, Arizona. The role requires U.S. citizenship and an active, existing DoD Secret clearance after the first day.

Requirements

  • A degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 5 years of prior relevant experience.
  • Experience in System Safety Engineering, Systems Engineering, Software or Firmware Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent Safety Engineering.
  • Experience writing technical reports and presentations.
  • U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government-issued security clearance; an active and existing clearance is required after day one.

Nice To Haves

  • Active and transferable DoD security clearance.
  • Experience developing and implementing MIL-STD-882E System Safety Program tasks and analyses, including management (task series 100), analysis (task series 200), evaluation (task series 300), and verification (task series 400), covering hardware and software safety-related tasks.
  • Experience with DoD System Safety Programs, such as MIL-STD-882 or DO-178.
  • Experience reviewing software code and requirements for safety considerations.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement MIL-STD-882E-compliant system safety programs, including associated tasks, analyses, and planning.
  • Conduct hazard and design analyses to ensure compliance with system requirements, customer specifications, and military standards.
  • Collaborate with customer safety representatives to clarify system requirements and ensure they are properly allocated to software, hardware, and test personnel.
  • Coordinate with customer safety representatives and Safety Review Board authorities to obtain safety approval.
  • Manage System Safety Working Groups with Raytheon and customer representatives.
  • Work across integrated product teams and engineering disciplines to eliminate hazards or implement effective controls.
  • Collaborate across disciplines to understand product architecture and design.
  • Review and analyze software code with software development teams.
  • Collaborate with Program Management and government approval authorities from program startup through deployment to gain concurrence with software builds.
  • Support safety activities from program startup through production, demilitarization, and disposal.
  • Brief safety considerations and program status during technical reviews and approval processes.
  • Prepare internal and customer-facing reports detailing system safety analyses and program status.

Benefits

  • Relocation eligibility.
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Life insurance.
  • Short-term and long-term disability.
  • 401(k) match.
  • Flexible spending accounts.
  • Flexible work schedules.
  • Employee assistance program.
  • Employee Scholar Program.
  • Parental leave.
  • Paid time off and holidays.
  • Potential eligibility for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs.
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