AD&D System Safety Engineer

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The AD&D System Safety Engineer defines and leads system safety strategy for early‑phase aircraft and system concepts and is responsible for ensuring the safety and reliability of designs being developed by the Advanced Design & Development team. This role will focus on the initial phases of aircraft development—ideation, hypothesis generation, stakeholder engagement, technology maturation, and conceptual design. This role will develop safety‑driven architectures, allocate safety and reliability requirements, and establish re‑usable safety cases and analysis patterns that can be carried forward into detailed design and certification programs.

This position involves acting as a safety architect and technical leader and collaborating with cross‑functional teams, including aero, airframe, systems, software, and certification engineers as well as flight test, flight operations, and IT, to ensure that novel technologies and operating concepts can be matured into certifiable, operationally viable products.

This role will work with small, agile teams to explore new user value propositions, challenge the status quo, and evolve ideas into developed systems with validated architectures and requirements ready for detailed design and certification planning.

• Define AD&D safety engineering strategy, processes, and methods aligned with core Product Development’s System Safety and Systems Engineering practices.
• Conduct system safety analyses to support early development design decisions such as system architectures, availability, integrity, monitoring, and other safety requirements.
• Conduct and document Functional Decompositions.
• Conduct and document aircraft and system level safety analyses – specifically Aircraft Functional Hazard Assessments, Preliminary Aircraft Safety Assessments, System Functional Hazard Assessments, Preliminary System Safety Assessments, Particular Risk Assessments, Common Cause Assessments, and Particular Risk Assessments.
• Develop and review system schematics.
• Develop and validate reliability, maintenance, and safety requirements.
• Participate in trade studies and design reviews.
• Perform reliability and safety trade studies for alternative architectures and design concepts.
• Establish and maintain safety cases, including explicit documentation of assumptions, open issues, and certification risks for transition into development programs.
• Mentor and coach AD&D and Systems Engineers in safety driven design practices, including early phase use of ARP
  4754B/4761A and runtime assurance.
• Perform reliability analysis of electrical and/or mechanical assemblies using RIAC NPRD-2011, NSWC-11, RIAC Reliability Toolkit, and/or equivalent.
• Perform reliability analysis of electrical assemblies using MIL-HDBK-217-F2, RIAC NPRD-2011, RIAC Reliability Toolkit, and/or equivalent.
• Perform Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) of electrical and/or mechanical assemblies per MIL-STD-1629A, SAE ARP
  4761, RIAC FMD-2013, RIAC Reliability Toolkit, and/or equivalent.
• Support safety of flight determination for first flights.
• Identify Failure Modes and Effects Test (FMET) cases and support simulation and flight FMET.
• Review vendors’ reliability analysis and FMEA submittals for completeness and accuracy.
• Perform Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and common cause analyses (CCAs) of electrical and/or mechanical systems per SAE ARP
  4761.
• Development of tasks and procedures for flight crew and periodic maintenance requirements necessary for ensuring compliance with all regulatory requirements.
• Coordinate closely with and support the work of system and software architects, systems development assurance, systems engineering, electrical and mechanical systems design, flight deck designers, human factors engineers, and flight test.
• Travel up to 25% may be required.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified…