Systems Safety and Certification Engineer

Grid Aero • San Leandro, CA

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About The Position

Grid.aero is seeking a System Safety and Certification Engineer to lead safety and airworthiness for its autonomous aircraft. The engineer will define the safety approach, conduct analyses, and own the path to airworthiness, flight approval, and certification. The role emphasizes reasoning from failure modes, pursuing designs that are both safe and simple, and challenging complexity that does not improve safety.

Grid.aero builds autonomous aviation systems for defense and commercial applications. It describes its working environment as fast-paced and mission-focused, with small teams owning significant problems end-to-end. Candidates must be U.S. persons—U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents—due to U.S. export control laws.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in system safety, reliability, or airworthiness for aircraft.
• Experience with hazard analysis and risk assessment, including FHA, FMEA, CCA, and fault tree analysis.
• Familiarity with ARP4761, ARP4754, or MIL-HDBK-516.
• Ability to explain safety tradeoffs clearly to engineers, leadership, and regulators.
• Must be a U.S. person (U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident) due to U.S. export control laws.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with military airworthiness or uncrewed aircraft.
• First-principles thinking, finding simple paths to goals, and thriving in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead system safety activities, including hazard analysis and system safety assessments.
• Set safety and reliability targets and drive design changes to meet them.
• Identify applicable airworthiness criteria and own the certification plan.
• Work with government airworthiness authorities to secure flight approvals.
• Run reliability and maintainability analyses and feed the results back into the design.
• Assign design assurance levels for hardware and software with engineering leads.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed