Systems Safety Engineer
About The Position
The System Safety Engineer ensures the safety and reliability of complex systems by identifying hazards, assessing risks, and implementing mitigation strategies throughout the system lifecycle. The role aligns identified hazards and safety-significant functions with implementing systems, subsystems, hardware, software, and communications, and develops and maintains traceability between hazards, safety requirements, design elements, mitigations, and verification evidence. The engineer supports identification and classification of Safety Significant Functions (SSF) and implementing items, as well as development and management of Software Control Categories (SCC) and Software Criticality Indices (SwCI). The role also supports maturation and maintenance of the FHA and Hazard Tracking System (HTS) as the vehicle design evolves, and evaluates system architecture and proposed design controls against identified hazards and required risk reduction. The engineer works with third-party suppliers to review and assess safety-case evidence, determine whether supplier safety arguments, analyses, assumptions, and constraints adequately address the safety responsibilities of supplied components or subsystems, and identify gaps between supplier safety evidence and vehicle-level safety requirements.
Requirements
- 3–5 years of systems safety engineering experience required; preferably 5 years or more.
- B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering.
- Knowledge and experience with the processes, work products, and analysis methods of MIL-STD-882E and/or ISO 26262.
- Experience performing FMEA/FMECA.
- Must be a U.S. citizen or Green Card holder.
Nice To Haves
- Five or more years of systems safety engineering experience preferred.
- Working knowledge of DO-178C, DO-254, ARP4761, and ARP4754.
- FMEDA experience preferred.
Responsibilities
- Identify hazards, assess risks, and implement mitigation strategies throughout the system lifecycle.
- Align identified hazards and safety-significant functions with implementing systems, subsystems, hardware, software, and communications.
- Develop and maintain traceability between hazards, safety requirements, design elements, mitigations, and verification evidence.
- Support identification and classification of Safety Significant Functions (SSF) and implementing items.
- Support development and management of Software Control Categories (SCC) and Software Criticality Indices (SwCI).
- Support maturation and maintenance of the FHA and Hazard Tracking System (HTS) as vehicle design evolves.
- Evaluate system architecture and proposed design controls against identified hazards and required risk reduction.
- Review and assess third-party supplier safety-case evidence, including safety arguments, analyses, assumptions, and constraints.
- Identify gaps between supplier safety evidence and vehicle-level safety requirements.
- Perform and support safety analysis at the system, subsystem, and component levels.
- Perform FMEA/FMECA.
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Career Level
Mid Level
