Systems Safety Engineer

About the role

Work effectively with all functional groups to achieve product performance and cost targets. Build quality and manufacturability into the design. Define/understand/comply with company and regulatory guidelines to assure a safe operating environment. Demonstrate proficiency with verbal and written English for technical reports, presentations, analyses, or other communications at the appropriate level throughout the organization.

Responsibilities

• Understand, decompose, and define product and process requirements to support product development
• Plan, estimate, prioritize, and manage work activities to support meeting project schedules and budgets
• Utilize experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Produce thorough and accurate design and development work of suitable complexity that meets all customer specifications and company requirements for schedule, cost, producibility, quality, and reliability
• Generate and review product development documentation including proposals, technical reports, procedures, correspondence, etc. necessary to satisfy customer and program requirements
• Self-directed and motivated while working and communicating effectively within a team environment that consists of several engineering, operations, quality, and business disciplines
• Contribute to all Systems Engineering aspects (architecture and components) from initial product research, architecture definition, requirements definition, requirements validation, systems verification, management, and flow down to functional engineering groups
• Experience following industry recognized processes (e.g. ARP4754)
• Development of System Safety analyses such as reliability predictions, Failure Modes and Effect Analyses, Fault Tree Analysis, Common Mode Analysis and Single Event Upset analysis (ARP4761)
• Participate in the certification compliance activities of essential and critical level control systems for aircraft applications
• Any other task assigned by supervisor or management

Qualifications

Experience: 5 to 10 years of relevant work experience

Education/Certification: BA or BS Degree in an engineering discipline.

Skills

• Experience of system development following industry recognized processes (e.g. ARP4754)
• Familiarity with DO178, DO254 and DO160
• Understands Systems Engineering principles, including interpreting and writing requirements, system architectures and designs
• Knowledge of requirements management, validation and verification
• Familiarity with Software development lifecycle

Location: Seattle, WA (locals)
Work Shift: Mon-Tues-Wed-Thurs-Fri, Onsite
Visa: USC/GC