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Systems Safety Engineer

Swarm Aero
Oxnard, USA
Full-time
Senior · 7+ years experience
Onsite
USD 140000-200000 / year
Discovered 5 days ago

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Nice to Have

  • Familiarity with System-Theoretic Accident Model and Processes (STAMP) and System-Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA)
  • Experience analyzing degraded-mode behaviors and the safety implications of signal loss or adversarial conditions
  • Active security clearance
  • ITAR requirement
  • To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
  • Swarm Aero is an equal opportunity employer. We value diverse backgrounds and experiences and make employment decisions without regard to race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, or disability. What We Offer
  • Meaningful equity in a high-growth defense technology company
  • Competitive base salary commensurate with experience
  • Medical, dental, vision, and 401k
  • PTO and paid sick leave
  • Monthly wellness stipend
  • Daily catered lunch (office)
  • Paid parental leave
  • Direct impact on a critical national security mission
  • A world-class team of engineers and operators solving genuinely hard problems
  • Swarm Aero is an equal opportunity employer. We value diverse backgrounds and experiences and make employment decisions without regard to race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, or disability.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of system safety experience on aerospace, defense, or UAS programs
  • Strong foundation in systems engineering principles and practices
  • Hands-on experience with SSA, FHA, FTA on flight-critical systems
  • Strong understanding of failure mode classification, development assurance levels (DALs), and safety architecture principles
  • Experience applying safety objectives to software development
  • Experience with ARP4761 and ARP4754
  • Experience with military safety standards and handbooks (e.g. MIL-STD-882, JSSSEH)
  • Experience with civil software development standards (e.g. DO-178, DO-254)
  • Ability to communicate safety findings clearly to engineering, test, and program leadership
  • US person status required

Responsibilities

  • Lead aircraft and system safety analysis (SSA), functional hazard assessment (FHA), fault tree analysis (FTA), common cause analysis (CCA), common mode analysis (CMA)
  • Derive safety requirements and work with subsystem teams to develop appropriate architectural mitigations, failure containment, redundancy, and detection across avionics, flight control, propulsion, and power systems
  • Define and justify development assurance level (DAL) allocations to mitigate software design errors
  • Support design reviews, test readiness reviews, and flight readiness reviews with safety inputs and findings
  • Collaborate with systems engineering on architecture decisions that have safety implications including automatic takeoff/landing, airborne detect and avoid (DAA), and signal loss behaviors for navigation and communications
  • Develop safety-related inputs to flight authorization packages and coordinate with airworthiness stakeholders as needed
  • Lead root-cause identification and corrective action planning on safety-related issues discovered during analysis, simulation, integration, or test
  • 7+ years of system safety experience on aerospace, defense, or UAS programs
  • Strong foundation in systems engineering principles and practices
  • Hands-on experience with SSA, FHA, FTA on flight-critical systems
  • Strong understanding of failure mode classification, development assurance levels (DALs), and safety architecture principles
  • Experience applying safety objectives to software development
  • Experience with ARP4761 and ARP4754
  • Experience with military safety standards and handbooks (e.g. MIL-STD-882, JSSSEH)
  • Experience with civil software development standards (e.g. DO-178, DO-254)
  • Ability to communicate safety findings clearly to engineering, test, and program leadership
  • US person status required

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