Senior System Safety Engineer

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Lockheed Martin is a global leader in aerospace, defense, and technology solutions. Our Manassas campus is a thriving center of engineering expertise, fostering a culture that encourages creativity, excellence, and the creation of exceptional products. Our team is made up of dedicated professionals who are passionate about pushing the boundaries of what's possible.

At Lockheed Martin, we're at the forefront of cutting‑edge technology and innovation. Our campus in Manassas, Virginia is a hub for engineering excellence, where we tackle some of the world's most challenging engineering problems. We pride ourselves on our culture of creativity, excellence, and product innovation.

This position is for a System Safety Engineer to support the Mission Electronics Subsystem (MES) Program at our Manassas, Virginia facility. This Safety Engineer will have a primary focus on mission system Command and Control Integration (C2I) and will support the lead MES Safety Engineer in conducting the System Safety Program to address the integrated system’s safety position throughout development, verification, and validation.

This Safety Engineer will actively participate in the MES System Safety Working Group and will lead regular communication with engineering representatives across industry partners. The Safety Engineer must be highly proactive, capable of implementing a strategy for integrated software safety, evaluating analyses from distributed partner teams, identifying integrated safety risk, and determining where additional risk mitigation is required.

• Lead the C2I software safety efforts, ensuring safety features and controls for mitigation/elimination of hazards are in place across subsystem boundaries.
• Evaluate risk assessment and mitigation across mission systems interfaces, review safety mishaps and hazards, and report on risk assessment and mitigation at C2I reviews.
• Ensure mission systems safety requirements are in place and track those requirements through verification.
• Complete System Safety hazard analyses and document results for delivery.

• Enjoy an excellent working environment equipped with state‑of‑the‑art tools.
• Opportunity to work alongside industry leaders and top‑notch professionals.
• Chance to be part of solving some of the world's most challenging engineering problems.
• Culture that encourages creativity, excellence, and the development of remarkable products.
• Flexible schedules, competitive pay and comprehensive benefits enable you to live a healthy, fulfilling life at and outside of work.

Lockheed Martin is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered without regard to legally protected characteristics.

• Experience with MIL‑STD‑882 based Safety programs.
• Experience in System‑of‑Systems evaluation and assessing multi‑component integrated systems.
• Communication experience with partner organizations and customer representatives, delivering appropriate messages and working through issue resolution.
• Experience with Systems Engineering and Safety processes in all phases of the development lifecycle.
• Qualified candidate must be able to obtain a DoD Secret Security Clearance. This requires US Citizenship.

• Involvement in detailed software and hardware design/development programs.
• Experience supporting customer working groups and presenting at program reviews.
• Experience with requirements management spanning definition, decomposition, and verification.
• Experience with an Agile development environment.
• US Navy Undersea Warfare experience, including sonar and sensors.
• Experience with system diagrams and modeling, including CAMEO/Magic Draw.

This position requires a government security clearance and requires the candidate to be a US Citizen. Clearance Level: Secret.

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