Systems Safety Engineer

Anduril • Mountain View, CA

8h

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 partners with Engineering to ensure products are safe and meet mission performance, environmental, and customer requirements, while developing scalable System Safety processes and methods.

In this role, you will drive system-level safety decisions, apply advanced analysis techniques, influence design trades, and lead complex failure investigations. You will work with Reliability, Systems Engineering, and Hardware and Software teams throughout the product development lifecycle to deliver safe, mission-ready products. The role requires executing safety plans, performing and documenting safety analyses, shaping safety requirements and risk mitigations, and supporting design reviews and customer or regulatory engagements.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of industry experience as a System Safety Engineer or in an 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 and analysis experience, with a proven 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 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/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 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 risk mitigation strategies are in place.
• Support the Design Requirements Process and promote adherence 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 total compensation.
• Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, described as a comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior