Systems Safety Engineer

The role

The Systems Safety Engineer will architect safety into the design of large, autonomous, swarming UAS. This person will work with engineering teams to mitigate hazards and ensure aircraft fail gracefully.

What you will do

• Lead aircraft and system safety analysis (SSA), functional hazard assessment (FHA), fault tree analysis (FTA), common cause analysis (CCA), and common mode analysis (CMA)
• Derive safety requirements and work with subsystem teams to develop architectural mitigations, failure containment, redundancy, and detection
• Define and justify development assurance level (DAL) allocations
• Support design reviews, test readiness reviews, and flight readiness reviews
• Collaborate with systems engineering on architecture decisions
• Develop safety-related inputs to flight authorization packages and coordinate with airworthiness stakeholders
• Lead root-cause identification and corrective action planning on safety-related issues

Required 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

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

Benefits

• 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

Before you apply

• 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 obtai

About the company

Swarm Aero is building large, autonomous, swarming UAS for operations at scale in contested environments. The team has experience from Scaled Composites, Airbus, Archer Aviation, Blue Origin, and Boom Supersonic.