Spacecraft System Safety & Mission Assurance Engineer

Job Responsibilities

• Lead and support spacecraft system safety assessments, hazard analyses, fault tree analyses, failure modes and effects analyses, and other safety and risk analyses.
• Evaluate hazardous and off-nominal conditions and coordinate fault-management approaches across flight software, avionics, subsystem controllers, and mission operations.
• Develop fault-protection concepts and requirements, including fault detection, isolation, containment, recovery, safing, and mission-recovery strategies.
• Evaluate spacecraft responses to off-nominal conditions and translate safety and mission assurance objectives into clear, verifiable system and subsystem requirements.
• Define and support verification of hazard controls and fault-protection requirements through analysis, test, simulation, and fault injection.
• Review requirements, designs, test plans, waivers, deviations, and anomaly dispositions for safety and mission assurance impacts.
• Support anomaly investigations, root cause analyses, corrective actions, design reviews, readiness reviews, and customer safety reviews.
• Maintain traceability between hazards, controls, requirements, design features, procedures, and verification evidence while integrating Quality Management System tracking with engineering design systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering, systems engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, computer engineering, or a related technical field.
• 3–7 years of relevant experience in spacecraft, launch vehicles, aerospace systems, autonomous systems, or other complex safety-critical systems.
• Experience in system safety, reliability, fault management, mission assurance, or spacecraft systems engineering.
• Experience developing or assessing fault detection, isolation, recovery, safing, or fault-tolerant system behavior.
• Familiarity with functional hazard assessments, fault tree analyses, failure modes and effects analyses, or similar risk-analysis methods.
• Experience developing, reviewing, or verifying technical requirements and resolving multidisciplinary technical issues.
• Strong technical writing, communication, and engineering judgment, including the ability to make risk-informed recommendations with incomplete or evolving information.