Senior Principal Safety Systems Engineer - DoD MIL-STD

Relocation assistance may be available.

Clearance required for start:
No.

Clearance type:
Secret.

Travel:
Yes, 10% of the time.

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon.

We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is seeking a Sr. Principal Safety Systems Engineer based out of Melbourne, FL.

• Develop and evaluate product systems, associated support equipment, and facilities, functional specifications and operations, and establish safety requirements for assigned systems
• Develop requirements and designs, assess implementations for hazard and causal factors to satisfy critical system safety objectives
• Review architecture, requirements, and interface artifacts for safety on complex hardware/software systems
• Independently analyze and recommend safety criteria in system design, equipment, and procedures to control or eliminate hazards
• Collaborate with various design teams
• Review and prepare engineering and technical analyses, reports, change proposals, and other technical documentation for system safety and in support of Airworthiness Certification in accordance with MIL-HDBK-516
• Review Test Plans and Procedures for safety requirements verification and potential hazardous operations
• Perform System Safety Analysis in accordance with MIL-STD-882E

Bachelor's Degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and 9 years of experience, or Master’s Degree with 7 years of experience.

• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance within a reasonable amount of time as determined by business needs.
• Ability to apply system safety engineering principles in accordance with MIL-STD-882 and analyses such as preliminary hazard analyses, function/system/subsystem hazard analyses, fault tree analyses, software system safety analyses and safety assessment reports
• Ability to analyze, recommend, and drive safety into system design, equipment, and procedures to mitigate or eliminate hazards
• Ability to effectively communicate with all levels of leadership and customers and work independently
• Ability to develop, review, update and approve system safety artifacts and system safety requirements
• Familiar with requirements development, system/software architecture, software design, software code implementation, test, verification, and validation
• Understanding of requirements development, system/software architecture, hardware/software design, software code implementation, test, verification, and validation

• Familiarity with requirements tools such as DOORS, Cameo, CPLM, Safety and Reliability tools such as PTC Windchill Quality Solutions, Agile software tools, JIRA, FISHEYE and/or Confluence
• Working knowledge of Military systems safety and process standards and their Industry equivalent such as: MIL-STD-882, DO-178B/C, DO-248, DO-254, ARP-4754, ARP-4761, MIL-HDBK-516C, etc.
• Working knowledge of flight test engineering, Software systems integration engineering, and software test engineering
• Working knowledge of detect and avoid systems and associated process standards such as DO-365
• Experience in Hardware/Software Integration
• System Software Safety Experience
• Experience in military aviation

Primary Level Salary Range: $ - $

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and…