Senior System Safety Engineer IV/V
Zone 5 Technologies · San Luis Obispo, CA · 2 wk ago
On-siteEngineering$154k–$187k/yrFull-time
Key Responsibilities
- System Safety & Architecture
- Develop and maintain System Safety Program Plan and safety architecture documentation
- Lead Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), and System Safety Assessments
- Identify, document, and manage hazards, risks, and mitigation measures throughout the lifecycle
- Draft System Safety Analysis Reports and maintain traceability between safety requirements, hazards, and mitigations
- Lead Safety Critical Functional Thread Analysis (SCFTA) and support HAZOP/ETA activities
- Data, Documentation & Test Planning
- Establish data collection and analysis frameworks for safety metrics and trending
- Create and execute test plans for safety verification and validation
- Lead development of Built-In Test (BIT) plans and support Qualification Test Plan development
- Define test requirements, acceptance criteria, and success metrics for safety-critical functions
- Review test data to confirm safety requirements compliance
- Customer Engagement & Reviews
- Serve as primary point of contact with customers on system safety matters
- Lead and participate in THAR, NNMSB, and other customer System Safety Reviews and Panels
- Present safety analysis findings, risk postures, and mitigation strategies to customers
- Support milestone reviews (PDR, CDR, QDR, MRR) representing system safety
- Cook up responses to customer safety data items and deliverables
- Risk Management & Process Improvement
- Lead safety corrective actions from Root Cause Corrective Action (RCCA) investigations
- Host corrective action reviews and ensure lessons learned implementation
- Coordinate risk mitigation with Manufacturing Engineering, Logistics, and Deployment Operations
- Develop and implement system safety processes and tools
- Ensure compliance with MIL-STD-882E and other applicable safety standards
- 7+ years as a System Safety Engineer or equivalent safety-critical engineering role
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, Systems, or Electrical Engineering, or Physics
- Expertise with MIL-STD-882E and military safety standards
- Experience creating and executing test plans for safety verification
- Proven experience engaging with customers on System Safety Reviews (THAR, NNMSB, or similar)
- Strong system architecture knowledge and safety requirements decomposition
- Extensive FHA, FTA, and SCFTA experience
- Failure investigation with proven corrective action implementation
- Technical writing for reports, procedures, and documentation
- Hazard/risk management and tracking to closure
- Design review experience (PDR, CDR, MRR) with strong presentation skills
- Data collection, analysis, and trending for safety metrics
- U.S. Citizenship Preferred
- Master's degree in engineering or related field
- 10+ years progressive system safety experience
- System Safety certification (ASP, CSP, CSEP)
- DoD or Navy safety programs experience
- Quantitative FTA with probabilistic risk assessment
- FMEA/FMECA, HAZOP, and ETA experience
- Safety analysis software tools (Relyence, Windchill, PTC Integrity)
- Requirements management tools (JIRA, JAMA, Cameo, DOORS)
- Aircraft, spacecraft, or UAV systems experience
- Active U.S. Security Clearance or ability to obtain