Senior Airplane Safety Engineer – Program

Job Description

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The Boeing Safety, Security, and Airworthiness (SS&A) organization is looking for a Senior Airplane Safety Engineer to support the 777X airplane program onsite in Everett, WA. This is a high-visibility role with direct responsibility for supporting airplane safety, airworthiness, and regulatory certification activities in a highly regulated, safety‑critical environment.

As an Airplane Safety Engineer, you will be responsible for working cross functionally to ensure airplane level safety analysis are appropriately conducted. Understanding the complex integration of airplane systems, human factors, and airplane integration into the operational environment is required in this role. The Airplane Safety deliverables directly feed airplane compliance and require an extreme attention to detail as well as a healthy engineering curiosity.

Our team partners closely with regulators, program leaders, and engineering organizations across the enterprise. We value systems thinking, clear communication, technical leadership, and an unwavering commitment to product safety, regulatory compliance, and design integrity.

Engaged throughout every stage of product design and certification, we maintain a steadfast focus on regulatory compliance, design safety, and product integrity.

If you’re ready for a challenging new role that is critical to the success and certification of our programs, then this might be the job for you!

• Oversees system research and analysis to identify potential or investigate reported flight anomalies, risks, and safety concerns and quantifies impact.
• Applies an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to execute airplane level safety analyses
• Evaluates customer/operational needs to define and coordinate system performance requirements, integrate technical parameters and assure compatibility of all physical, functional and program interfaces
• Leads identifying safety and mission assurance issue systemic root causes and recommends corrective actions using industry best practices.
• Leads collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to define, validate, and integrate safety, mission success, and airworthiness requirements; incorporates into designs, operations, and procedures.
• Leads, influences or reviews tests, analyses, inspections, audits, and simulations to verify system meets defined safety and mission assurance requirements.
• Leads creation of aerospace safety and mission assurance tools and processes.
• Leads documentation of complex safety analysis, hazard mitigation, validation and verification activities in compliance with relevant customer and regulatory safety standards.
• Develops safety plan strategies and coordinates safety and corrective action plans with programs.
• Presents hazard mitigations, risk controls, and safety approaches to customers and regulatory authorities

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology (including Manufacturing Technology), Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry or non-US equivalent qualifications directly related to the work statement
• 9+ years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• 3+ years of experience in airplane systems design, analysis, or systems integration(e.g. flight controls, hydraulics, avionics, fuels, etc.) and/or systems integration.
• Experience leading cross functional teams
• Able and willing to take ownership of work activities to ensure they are completed accurately and efficiently

• 5+ years of experience performing systems safety analysis and/or studies
• 5+ years of experience with commercial airplane certification and safety requirements and procedures
• 5+ years of experience working with safety analyses such as Risk Assessments, Functional Hazard Assessments (FHA),…