System Analysis Engineer

Overview

Draper is an independent, nonprofit research and development company headquartered in Cambridge, MA. The 2,000+ employees of Draper tackle important national challenges with a promise of delivering successful and usable solutions. From military defense and space exploration to biomedical engineering, lives often depend on the solutions we provide. Our multidisciplinary teams of engineers and scientists work in a collaborative environment that inspires the cross-fertilization of ideas necessary for true innovation.

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The High Availability Architecture Group within the Systems Engineering directorate is seeking a System Safety Engineer to guide and facilitate concept development, mission-system analysis, and requirement derivation, verification, and certification of complex strategic deterrence, missile defense, hypersonic, space, precision guided munition, autonomous air/sea vehicle, and biotechnology systems.

This handpicked candidate must possess a unified System Safety, Personnel Safety, Range Safety, Environmental Safety, and Nuclear Weapon Safety Surety (NWSS) expertise that can expand Draper's insight to address hazards which remain prevalent throughout critical enterprises, infrastructure, systems, and operations. A successful candidate will be equipped to propose modern solutions embedded with safety awareness, that adhere to FOD, OSHA, MIL-STD-882, NAS 411, Navy, NASA, FAA, and other DoD standards, to proactively mitigate unacceptable loss and unrecoverable downtime throughout their lifecycle.

The multidisciplinary proficiencies supporting this initiative are System Safety Concepts & Design Principles, Mission Assurance & Reliability, Resilient System Architecture, Fault & Contingency Management.

• Conducting System Safety Analyses that inform one another across the Systems Engineering lifecycle including STPA, FHAs, FMECAs/HAZOPs, FTAs, Component Criticality Analyses (CCAs), and Human Error Assessments
• On-time delivery and maturation of System Safety work packages such as:
  Hazard Analysis Traceability | Safety Requirements | Safety Architecture | Off-Nominal & Contingency scenarios | Anomaly Management policies
• Socializing and demystifying System Safety, NWSS, Range Safety, Environmental Safety, and Personnel Safety best practices and techniques to internal cross-disciplinary stakeholders such as:
  System Architecture | Avionics | Software | Hardware design teams
• Advocating for System Safety best practices, to internal and external stakeholders & customers to maintain a healthy safety culture
• Assessing technical data packages for compliance with System Safety processes and strategies
• Quick turn application of critical thinking for problem framing, analyzing, and synthesizing complex problems qualitatively and quantitatively
• Documenting insights, findings, lessons learned, and maintaining a knowledge base of contributions within Draper's collaborative Digital Engineering tool suite

• Develop, execute and track performance of security & safety measures to protect mission critical embedded systems across diverse business areas
• Define and mature System Safety artifacts to inform system requirements and disambiguate criticality
• Identify, define and document system security requirements and recommend solutions to management
• Monitor systems for irregular behavior and set up preventive and responsive measures
• Plan, develop, implement and update System Safety campaign
• Educate and train staff on System Safety design principles and best practices
• Take ownership of assignments and guide others as needed; successfully lead tasks while tracking priorities, scope, cost and schedule
• Derive plans and approaches to solving complex problems across a program lifecycle, capturing all assumptions and adapting appropriately to changes in requirements with limited direction
• Independently contribute high quality content for technical reports and presentations which shows an understanding of their task and an awareness of the intended audience. Demonstrates both confidence and success when presenting…