Principal System Safety Engineer

The role

You will serve as a company-wide technical authority on system safety. You will set safety philosophy, risk acceptance posture, and analytical standards across all divisions.

What you will do

• Serve as a company-wide System Safety technical authority across all Anduril divisions.
• Conduct independent, end-to-end safety assessments of any program at any lifecycle phase.
• Deploy as a senior technical resource to programs across the portfolio.
• Prepare programs and their engineering teams for formal government safety certification.
• Shape enterprise technical risk posture using analytical models and risk acceptance philosophy.
• Pioneer analysis and verification approaches for emerging technology like autonomous and AI/ML-enabled systems.
• Negotiate safety acceptance criteria and tailored standards with customers and regulatory authorities.
• Drive System Safety philosophy, planning standards, and requirements practice across the enterprise.
• Grow Senior and Staff System Safety engineers into recognized experts.
• Represent Anduril externally in industry working groups, standards bodies, and customer safety forums.

Required qualifications

• Minimum of 15 years of industry experience as a System Safety Engineer or equivalent engineering background
• B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, or equivalent technical discipline
• Direct experience with government safety review boards such as WSESRB, NNMSB, and SSSTRP
• Deep experience with safety-critical hardware and software systems in the defense or aerospace industry
• Expert-level knowledge of MIL-STD-882E
• Working familiarity with service-level system safety policy and the Joint Software Systems Safety Engineering Handbook (JSSSEH)
• Expert background in safety analysis techniques including FTA, FHA, SCFTA, and FMECA
• Failure investigation and analysis experience
• Extensive Design Review experience (PDR, CDR, MRR)
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
• Willingness to travel between Anduril sites, customer locations, and test ranges
• Eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance

Nice to have

• M.S. or Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, or equivalent technical discipline
• AI/ML and autonomy safety experience, including run-time assurance and the safety implications of DoD autonomous weapon system policy
• Experience with Relyence, Teamcenter, JIRA, JAMA, Cameo, and/or Ansys

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants
• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees

Before you apply

• Eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance
• Consent to use a third-party service provider to conduct pre-employment risk, integrity, and due diligence screening

About the company

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.