Safety Systems Engineer
Listed on 2026-08-29
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Engineering
Systems Engineer, Safety Engineer, Aerospace / Aviation / Avionics
Staff Safety Systems Engineer
Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is seeking a Staff Safety Systems Engineer to support the B-2 program in either Palmdale, CA, Rancho Bernardo, CA, Melbourne, FL OR Oklahoma City, OK. The successful candidate will be assigned to develop and deliver System Safety products as required using MIL-STD-882 as guidance.
Essential Functions:
- Identification, classification, adjudication, and management of hazards in a closed-loop tracking system
- Cross-IPT coordination to support hazard and safety requirement adjudication
- Communication of safety risk to the appropriate levels
- Being cognizant of the system design and functions
- Preparing and presenting SRR, PDR, and CDR packages to document hazards and associated safety requirements
- Flow down of derived safety requirements to the appropriate IPTs
- CDRL delivery
- Acquiring design cognizance of the aircraft
- Identification, classification, and documentation of Subsystem Hazards and Critical Safety Items (CSIs)
- Mentoring various experience levels of safety engineers
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline from an accredited university and a minimum of 14 years of Engineering experience OR at least 12 years with Master's Degree OR at least 4 years with PhD
- Understanding of and experience with a MIL-STD-882 or ARP
4754 safety program - Experience with interfacing to a military customer or safety counterpart
- Must have an active DoD Secret or Top Secret clearance or higher (with a background investigation completed within the last 6 years or currently enrolled into Continuous Evaluation)
- Must have the ability to obtain and maintain DoD Secret clearance or higher within a reasonable amount of time as determined by business needs
- Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance within a reasonable amount of time as determined by business needs
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in Software Engineering or Software Safety
- An active/current DOD Secret or Top Secret clearance
- An active/current SAP clearance (any SAP)
- Participation in System Safety Working Groups (SSWGs) or similar interface meetings (eg. SSGs, WSESRB, SSSTRP, etc.)
- Knowledge and experience with SAE ARP
4761, MIL-STD-882E, Joint Software System Safety Handbook (JSSSEH), DO-178B/C, MIL-HDBK-516C, DO-254, SAE ARP
4754A, and/or AOP-52. - Experience conducting a Preliminary Hazard List (PHL), Preliminary Hazard Assessment (PHA), Functional Hazard Assessment (FHA), Subsystem Hazard Analysis (SSHA), System Hazard Analysis (SHA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Probability of Loss of Aircraft (rollup FTA) analysis, Operating & Support Hazard Analysis (O&SHA), or the ARP
4754/4761 equivalents.
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