Senior System Safety Engineer

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The Senior System Safety Engineer will own the safety assessment process for Neon’s aerospace systems, executing and governing ARP
4761/ARP
4761A analyses in support of ARP
4754A/B development assurance and customer certification programs. This role is responsible for establishing Neon’s safety process, producing safety deliverables, and integrating safety requirements, analyses, and evidence into Neon’s requirements, MBSE, and PLM environment.

Working closely with the Systems Engineering Architect, the Senior System Safety Engineer will embed safety into Neon’s system development process from concept through certification and serve as Neon’s primary technical safety interface to customers and their certification teams.

• Safety Assessment
  • Lead the development of system-level Functional Hazard Assessments (FHA), Preliminary System Safety Assessments (PSSA), and System Safety Assessments (SSA), consistent with the customer’s aircraft-level safety assessment.
  • Perform and review Fault Tree Analyses (FTA), Failure Modes and Effects Analyses (FMEA), and Failure Modes and Effects Summaries (FMES).
  • Conduct Common Mode Analyses and provide inputs to customer Zonal Safety and Particular Risks Analyses.
  • Develop and manage failure rate analysis tools to predict and monitor product.
• Development Assurance & Safety Requirements
  • Derive safety requirements from hazard and failure analyses and allocate them to system, hardware, and software items, with traceability in Neon’s requirements management tool.
  • Assign and justify Function and Item Development Assurance Levels (FDAL/IDAL) in accordance with ARP
    4754A/B and ARP
    4761A.
  • Evaluate architectural mitigations, redundancy, and independence for catastrophic and hazardous failure conditions, and drive design changes where required.
  • Ensure DO-178C and DO-254 planning reflects assigned IDALs and safety-derived requirements.
• Safety Process & Digital Thread
  • Establish Neon’s system safety program plan, work instructions, and analysis templates aligned with ARP
    4761A.
  • Integrate safety analyses with Neon’s MBSE and PLM environment so that failure conditions, safety requirements, and verification evidence remain traceable and current as designs change.
  • Drive adoption of model-based safety analysis (MBSA) practices linked to Neon’s system models.
  • Coordinate with product cybersecurity on the interaction between safety and airworthiness security assessments.
• Customer & Certification Support
  • Align with customers on aircraft-level FHA allocations, safety requirements, and safety data deliverables.
  • Prepare safety deliverables for design reviews and certification data packages.
  • Present safety analyses and rationale to customers and support their engagement with certification authorities (FAA, EASA).
• Serve as Neon’s subject matter expert in aerospace system safety.
• Mentor systems and design engineers in safety-driven design and the application of safety analysis results.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with design, test, reliability, and certification teams to ensure alignment.