Staff Safety Systems Engineer

Northrop GrummanPalmdale, CA
$144,900 - $265,600Onsite

About The Position

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems in air and space that impact people’s lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our work preserves freedom and democracy, and advances human discovery and our understanding of the universe. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have a lot of fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they’re making history. Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is seeking a Staff Safety Systems Engineer to support the B-2 program in either Palmdale, CA OR Oklahoma City, OK. The successful candidate will be assigned to develop and deliver System Safety products as required using MIL-STD-882 as guidance.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline from an accredited university and a minimum of 14 years of Engineering experience OR at least 12 years with Master’s Degree OR at least 4 years with PhD
  • Understanding of and experience with a MIL-STD-882 or ARP4754 safety program
  • Experience with interfacing to a military customer or safety counterpart
  • Must have an active DoD Secret or Top Secret clearance or higher (with a background investigation completed within the last 6 years or currently enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).

Nice To Haves

  • Experience in Software Engineering or Software Safety
  • Active TOP SECRET or higher DoD Security Clearance
  • Participation in System Safety Working Groups (SSWGs) or similar interface meetings (eg. SSGs, WSESRB, SSSTRP, etc.)
  • Knowledge and experience with SAE ARP4761, MIL-STD-882E, Joint Software System Safety Handbook (JSSSEH), DO-178B/C, MIL-HDBK-516C, DO-254, SAE ARP4754A, and/or AOP-52.
  • Experience conducting a Preliminary Hazard List (PHL), Preliminary Hazard Assessment (PHA), Functional Hazard Assessment (FHA), Subsystem Hazard Analysis (SSHA), System Hazard Analysis (SHA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Probability of Loss of Aircraft (rollup FTA) analysis, Operating & Support Hazard Analysis (O&SHA), or the ARP4754/4761 equivalents.

Responsibilities

  • Identification, classification, adjudication, and management of hazards in a closed-loop tracking system
  • Cross-IPT coordination to support hazard and safety requirement adjudication
  • Communication of safety risk to the appropriate levels
  • Being cognizant of the system design and functions
  • Preparing and presenting SRR, PDR, and CDR packages to document hazards and associated safety requirements
  • Flow down of derived safety requirements to the appropriate IPTs
  • CDRL delivery
  • Acquiring design cognizance of the aircraft
  • Identification, classification, and documentation of Subsystem Hazards and Critical Safety Items (CSIs)
  • Mentoring various experience levels of safety engineers

Benefits

  • health insurance coverage
  • life and disability insurance
  • savings plan
  • Company paid holidays
  • paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
  • overtime
  • shift differential
  • discretionary bonus
  • Annual bonuses
  • Long Term Incentives (for VP or Director positions)
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