Senior Systems Safety Engineer

About the role

An Engineer working in the System Safety Engineering group will contribute to a wide variety of projects based on our business needs. The role involves working as an independent contributor alongside team leadership to perform Systems Safety Engineering tasks in support of project objectives. As a System Safety Engineer, you will be part of a team of experienced safety and specialty engineers working on various missile launching system programs. Your primary responsibility will be to contribute to analysis and design support efforts for all aspects of the system safety programs, ensuring that safety is integrated into the hardware and software of these products.

Responsibilities

• Analysis and design support for system safety programs
• Requirements analysis, interface analysis, and operations analysis
• System safety test and verification
• Collaboration with senior safety engineers to ensure safety is crafted into products
• Performs technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems
• Analyses are performed at all levels of total system product to include: concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance and disposal
• Ensures the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints
• Performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or equivalent technical discipline
• 3+ years of experience in system safety engineering, systems engineering, software engineering, or related field
• Proficient with MS Office products: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project
• Proficient in AI prompting as it applies to this position and practice

Desired Skills

• Experience with radar/sonar development, and/or electrical hardware design
• Experience with Requirements and Model Based Engineering tools (i.e. DOORS, CAMEO)
• Experience in software development tools and methodologies (i.e. Agile, JIRA)
• Familiarity with MIL-STD-882E and other relevant industry safety standards
• Experience with military/DoD customers

Guidance and development

• Direct guidance from senior safety engineers familiar with the product line
• Opportunity to grow skills and understanding of System Safety Engineering
• Contribution to improving and evolving the System Safety process and methodology

Pay

Full-Time Salary Range: $85,300.00 - $158,300.00

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10)
• 401(k) match
• Paid time off, Holidays
• Parental Leave
• EAP, Flexible Spending Accounts
• Education Assistance
• Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability
• Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered depending on the position

Schedule

For Washington state applicants only: Non-represented full-time employees accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons; receive at least 90 hours for holidays. Represented full-time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.