System Safety Engineer / Principal System Safety Engineer

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Principal System Safety Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. The position will be located in Palmdale, CA

The successful candidate will be collaborative, open, transparent, and team-oriented with a focus on team empowerment & shared responsibility, flexibility, continuous learning, work product ownership, and a culture of automation.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Applies knowledge, methodologies, and principles of safety engineering as defined in MIL-STD-882 and Software Safety engineering as defined in the Joint Software System Safety Engineering Handbook (JSSSEH)

• Develops and evaluates product systems, associated support equipment, and facilities, functional specifications and operations, and establishes safety requirements for assigned systems

• Develops requirements and designs, assess implementations for hazard and causal factors to satisfy critical system safety objectives

• Reviews architecture, requirements, and interface artifacts for safety on complex hardware/software systems

• Independently analyzes and recommends safety criteria in system design, equipment, and procedures to control or eliminate hazards

• Collaborate with various design teams in the execution of various MIL-STD-882E hazard analyses

• Reviews and prepares engineering and technical analyses, reports, change proposals, and other technical documentation for system safety and in support of Airworthiness Certification IAW MIL-HDBK-516

• Reviews Test Plans and Procedures for safety requirements verification and potential hazardous operations

• Perform software safety analysis (Experience in AGILE development)

• Ability to effectively communicate with all levels of leadership and customers and work independently

• Able to work non-standard hours and multiple shifts on a part-time basis. Overtime, odd shifts, and weekend work will occasionally be required.

Basic Qualifications:

• System Safety Engineer : Bachelor of science Degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and 2 years of experience, or a Master of science Degree in a STEM discipline

• Principal System Safety Engineer : Bachelor of science Degree in STEM a discipline and 5 years of experience, or a Master of science Degree in a STEM discipline with 3 years of experience.

• Must have an active US Government 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 Special Access Program (SAP) clearance.

• Must have experience with MIL-STD-882

• Must have experience with analyses like preliminary hazard analyses, function/system/subsystem hazard analyses, fault tree analyses, software system safety analyses and/or safety assessment reports

• Must have experience analyzing, recommending, and driving safety into system design, equipment, and procedures to mitigate or eliminate hazards

• Must have experience developing, reviewing, updating and/or approving system safety artifacts and system safety requirements

• Must have experience with requirements development, system/software architecture, hardware/ software design, software code implementation, test, verification, and validation

Preferred Qualifications:

• BS in Software Engineering or Computer engineering

• 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