UAS Systems Safety Engineer

Job Title: UAS Systems Safety Engineer

CACI is seeking a Safety Engineer to support the Launched Effects Product Office. This position will provide system safety, risk management, and technical engineering support for cutting‑edge Launched Effects systems that enhance lethality, survivability, and situational awareness for Soldiers. The Safety Engineer will support the planning, coordination, and execution of comprehensive system safety activities across Army Uncrewed Launched Effects platforms throughout the entire product life cycle.

• Support system safety, risk management, and technical engineering activities within the Launched Effects Product Office.
• Plan, coordinate, and execute comprehensive system safety activities for Launched Effects products.
• Support safety engineering efforts for Army Uncrewed Launched Effects platforms across the product life cycle.
• Perform risk management tasks, risk analyses, hazard identification and classification, and hazard tracking.
• Evaluate mitigation and corrective actions to determine their effectiveness in maintaining safe systems and platforms.
• Serve as a technical advisor on safety‑related matters for Launched Effects systems.
• Ensure system safety is considered throughout prototyping, development, testing, qualification, production, fielding, product improvement, and sustainment activities.
• Support Defense Acquisition activities and provide safety input to program planning, technical reviews, and acquisition documentation.
• Support monitoring of cost, schedule, and performance for safety and technical activities within the product office.
• Coordinate with project engineers, systems engineers, quality assurance personnel, government offices, contractors, vendors, and other stakeholders.
• Evaluate contractor system safety products, plans, analyses, and processes for technical competence, completeness, and accuracy.
• Provide recommended changes to contractor documentation based on technical evaluations.
• Perform research, analysis, and staff coordination in support of risk documentation.
• Prepare, update, review, or assist with System Safety Risk Assessments, Risk Determinations, and related risk acceptance documentation.
• Prepare, update, review, or assist with hardware and software safety analyses.
• Support development and review of Functional Hazard Analyses, Fault Tree Analyses, System Safety Program Plans, System Safety Management Plans, and System Safety Assessment Reports.
• Prepare, review, or provide input to software safety technical data packages in support of materiel release and fielding efforts.
• Develop, review, or evaluate safety requirements for incorporation into new and existing system development or improvement efforts.
• Identify safety risks, issues, and opportunities and recommend practical mitigation strategies.
• Prepare and present safety, engineering, risk, and programmatic briefings to leadership and stakeholders.
• Work independently and collaboratively in a dynamic, fast‑paced government product office environment.

• Active DoD Secret security clearance is required.
• U.S. citizenship.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering and at least five years of relevant safety engineering, systems engineering, aviation, defense, acquisition, or technical program experience.
• Experience supporting system safety, risk management, hazard analysis, or safety assessment activities.
• Experience supporting safety activities for complex defense, aviation, UAS, missile, launched effects, or related technical systems.
• Experience with risk management tasks, risk analyses, hazard identification, hazard classification, and hazard tracking.
• Ability to evaluate mitigation and corrective actions for safety effectiveness.
• Understanding of system safety activities across the acquisition life cycle.
• Ability to support development, testing, qualification, production, fielding, product improvement, or sustainment activities.
• Ability to evaluate contractor safety products, plans, processes, analyses, and documentation.
• Ability to prepare, review, or support technical, safety, and risk documentation.
• Ability to coordinate with engineering, quality, program management,…