Senior Systems Safety Engineer

About the role

The System Safety / Human System Integration (HSI) Department at RTX ensures that our products meet safety and human factors standards throughout their lifecycle. This role is based in Woburn, MA.

Responsibilities

• Developing and implementing one or more MIL-STD-882E compliant system safety programs
• Performing MIL-STD-882E System Safety Program tasks and analyses, or customer's approved equivalent
• Collaborating with customer safety representatives to ensure design and architecture considerations are appropriately allocated to the system and horizontally integrated across development teams
• Coordinating with customer safety representatives to gain safety approval from appropriate Safety Review Board authorities
• Working across all integrated product teams and lines to properly eliminate hazards or provide effective controls
• Collaborating with Program Management and government approval authorities from program startup through production to demilitarization and disposal
• Performing System Safety planning, hazard analyses, and design analyses
• Briefing safety considerations at technical reviews and as part of the safety approval process
• Interpreting system requirements, customer specifications and military standards
• Preparing internal and customer reports describing various analyses relevant to the System Safety program
• Collaborating across multiple disciplines to gain a full understanding of product architecture and design

Qualifications

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM preferred) and a minimum of 5 years of prior relevant experience
• Experience with risk assessment concepts, such as those in MIL-STD 882E
• Experience writing technical reports and presentations
• The ability to obtain and maintain a Secret U.S. government issued security clearance is required
• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for the required security clearance
• Experience developing and implementing MIL-STD-882E System Safety Program tasks and analyses, involving management (task series 100), analysis (task series 200), evaluation (task series 300), and verification (task series 400)
• Experience with DoD System Safety Programs e.g. MIL-STD-882 / DO-178
• Experience preparing internal and customer reports describing various analyses relevant to the System Safety program
• Experience reviewing software code and requirements for safety considerations
• Experience collaborating across multiple disciplines
• Experience interfacing with other engineering functions: Systems Engineering, Software or Firmware Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Hardware Engineering
• Experience managing Working Groups
• Active and transferrable final U.S. government issued Secret security clearance

What We Offer

• Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, and Innovation
• Relocation Eligibility
• Benefits including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays
• Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs
• Equal Opportunity Employer