Systems Safety Engineer
About The Position
Anduril's Reliability & System Safety Engineering organization is hiring System Safety Engineers across its product portfolio, including Air Dominance & Strike, Maritime, Ground Systems, Space, Counter-UAS, and Autonomy/Lattice. The team works with Engineering to ensure products are safe and meet mission performance, environmental, and customer requirements. It develops System Safety processes and methods to support scalable, long-term business success. In this role, you will drive system-level safety decisions, apply advanced analysis techniques, influence design trades, and lead complex failure investigations. You will partner with Reliability, Systems Engineering, and Hardware and Software teams throughout product development to deliver safe, mission-ready products.
Requirements
- Minimum of 5 years of industry experience as a System Safety Engineer or equivalent engineering background.
- B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, or an equivalent technical discipline.
- Experience with safety-critical hardware and software systems in the defense or aerospace industry.
- Familiarity with MIL-STD-882E and other relevant safety standards.
- Strong background in safety analysis techniques, including FTA, FHA, SCFTA, and FMECA.
- Experience with requirements decomposition for safety.
- Failure investigation or analysis experience, with a track record of solving problems and preventing recurrence.
- Design Review experience, including PDR, CDR, and MRR, and confident presentation skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, excellent communication skills, and the ability to collaborate cross-functionally.
- Eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.
Nice To Haves
- M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, or an equivalent technical discipline.
- Experience or familiarity with ARP-4754, ARP-4761, MIL-STD-516C, and JSSSEH.
- Experience with Relyence, Teamcenter, JIRA, JAMA, Cameo, and/or Ansys.
- Software safety case development experience.
- Experience with risk management, change control or change management reviews, and software/firmware HITL/SITL.
- AI/ML software safety experience.
Responsibilities
- Execute System Safety program plans aligned with MIL-STD-882E and program-specific requirements.
- Conduct safety analyses, including FHA, Fault Tree Analysis, SCFTA, FMECA, and System Safety Assessments at system and subsystem levels.
- Develop safety requirements and collaborate with design teams to implement safety solutions.
- Identify and document hazards and risks, manage hazard tracking, and ensure appropriate risk mitigation strategies are in place.
- Support the Design Requirements Process to ensure teams adhere to safety best practices.
- Represent System Safety at Development Milestone Reviews, including PDR, CDR, and QDR.
- Lead safety corrective actions arising from RCCA investigations and Mishap Reports.
- Verify and validate risk and hazard reduction measures.
- Liaise with internal stakeholders and support customer and regulatory engagements as needed.
- Drive continuous improvement in System Safety processes and methodologies.
- Ensure compliance with relevant military and industry safety standards.
Benefits
- Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers and are considered part of the total compensation package.
- Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, available at little to no cost to employees.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
