Safety-critical Lead (MIL-STD-882)

Role summary

In this role, you will apply systems engineering and safety engineering principles to identify, assess, and mitigate hazards across the system lifecycle, and will be responsible for planning and executing safety analyses and validating safety requirements and assumptions against design and test evidence.

Responsibilities

• Perform system safety engineering activities across the lifecycle, including hazard identification, analysis, tracking, and mitigation.
• Develop and maintain system and subsystem safety requirements, and ensure they are properly allocated, implemented, and verified.
• Conduct safety analyses such as Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA), Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA), System Safety Assessments (SSA), FMEA/FMECA, and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), as applicable.
• Plan and execute safety validation activities, including defining safety acceptance criteria, identifying supporting test/analysis data, and confirming that system behavior satisfies safety requirements and assumptions.
• Collaborate with systems, software, hardware, integration/test, and reliability teams to ensure safety considerations are incorporated into design decisions and verification plans.
• Support preparation of safety-related documentation and artifacts (e.g., hazard logs, safety assessments, safety case/evidence packages) for internal reviews and customer deliverables.
• Present safety findings, risks, and recommendations to program and customer stakeholders and support resolution of safety-related issues.

Requirements

• Must have a Bachelors of Science degree in a STEM field and at least 12 years of relevant military / professional experience, OR a Master's Degree in a STEM field and at least 10 years of relevant military / professional experience, OR a PhD and at least 8 years of relevant military / professional experience

Nice to have

• Experience with risk assessments.
• Experience in air vehicle system integration, testing and evaluation.
• Experience in presenting in front of customers and DoD personnel.
• Experience in development and maintenance of requirements control documents and related processes.
• Experience with Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) and CAMEO
• Experience performing Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA), Health Hazard Analysis (HHA), Environmental Hazard Analysis (EHA), Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA), System Hazard Analysis (SHA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), and support incorporating updates into the existing Hazard Tracking System (HTS) records.
• Experience with MIL-STD-882E
• Knowledge of MIL-STD-516 Air Worthiness Criteria, Human Systems Integration and SAE 6906
• Demonstrated command of English language and good communication skills.
• Demonstrated strict attention to detail and an eye for continuous improvement