Senior System Safety Engineer

The role

You will engineer safety into production equipment, lift fixtures, test stations, and manufacturing work instructions. You will lead risk assessments and partner with EHS and engineering teams to design out hazards.

What you will do

• Lead formal machine and task-based risk assessments on production equipment, fixtures, tooling, and processes.
• Review manufacturing work instructions and supporting training material for safety adequacy.
• Author Job Hazard Analyses (JHA) and embed required controls, PPE, and safe-work steps.
• Engineer and review production equipment such as lift fixtures and material-handling aids.
• Support proof-load testing.
• Assess and design safety into production test equipment.
• Apply the hierarchy of controls and prevention-through-design principles.
• Define functional-safety requirements for safety-related control systems and verify implementation.
• Partner with EHS to ensure engineering controls satisfy OSHA 29 CFR 1910 requirements.
• Support incident and near-miss investigations and root-cause analysis.

Required qualifications

• B.S. Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Manufacturing, Industrial, or Safety Engineering, or equivalent technical discipline
• 7+ years of experience in manufacturing/machine safety, equipment or controls engineering, or a related discipline with demonstrated ownership of risk assessments
• Hands-on experience performing formal machine and task-based risk assessments and applying the hierarchy of controls
• Working knowledge of machine safeguarding and applicable OSHA 29 CFR 1910 general-industry requirements
• Experience developing Job Hazard Analyses (JHA) and translating risk-assessment findings into work instructions, controls, and training
• Experience designing safety into production and/or test equipment, partnering with EHS and electrical safety specialists
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Eligibility to pursue and maintain a U.S. security clearance

Nice to have

• Familiarity with machine safety standards such as ISO 12100, ISO 13849, and ANSI B11
• M.S. Degree in an engineering discipline, or a professional safety credential (CSP, ASP) or machinery-safety credential (CMSE)
• Functional-safety experience determining Performance Level or SIL for safety-related control systems, and functional-safety certification (CMSE or TÜV FSEng)
• Experience with production test-equipment safety
• Experience in a high-rate or rapidly scaling manufacturing environment, ideally in aerospace, defense, automotive, or a comparable regulated industry
• Active U.S. security clearance

Benefits

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

Before you apply

• Eligibility to pursue and maintain a U.S. security clearance
• Consent to 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. Their family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system.