System Safety Engineer III - Lunar Permanence

About the role

This role is part of the Lunar Permanence business unit, which develops Blue Origin’s Blue Moon landers and related products. The Core Avionics group oversees the development and test of a variety of electrical components including power, command and data handling, and guidance, navigation and control systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop Functional Hazard Assessments (FHA), Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analyses (FMECA), and reliability predictions for avionics hardware
• Support in developing Fault Tree Analyses (FTA), Hazard Sheets, Common Cause Analyses (CCA), Architecture Safety Allocations (ASA), Hazard and Operability Studies (HAZOP)
• Ensure traceability between subsystem and component functions, requirements, and safety artifacts
• Collaborate with Vehicle Systems Engineers to ensure commonality across safety products

Requirements

• B.S. degree or equivalent relevant experience in engineering or another related technical field
• 2+ years of strong system safety and mission assurance experience (including, but not limited to FMECAs, FTAs, and FHAs)
• 5+ years of proven industry experience in the development of electronic hardware
• Applied knowledge of systems engineering principles and practices such as requirements development, validation, and verification
• Ability to earn trust and maintain positive and professional relationships
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills

Qualifications

• M.S. in Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related technical subject area
• Experience with aerospace safety standards (e.g. MIL-STD-882, SAE ARP-4761)
• Experience with reliability data sources such as NPRD, EPRD and utilizing Windchill software tool for reliability models and FTAs
• Experience with reliability/life test design (failure modes discovery, life demonstration, and screening), Weibull analysis and parameter estimation, stress-strength interference analyses, probability distribution estimation, reliability growth modeling, and probabilistic risk analysis
• Experience with Physics of Failure and relevant analysis toolsets (e.g. Ansys Sherlock)
• Applied industry experience with spaceborne avionics

Skills

Passion for our mission and vision is required!

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Short and long-term disability
• 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%
• Education Support Program
• Stock Options for all regular employees (working at least 20 hours/week)
• Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays