Senior System Safety Engineer

The role

The Senior System Safety Engineer will own the safety assessment process for aerospace systems. This person will execute ARP4761/ARP4761A analyses and establish safety processes, requirements, and deliverables within a digital environment.

What you will do

• Lead development of FHA, PSSA, and SSA consistent with customer aircraft-level safety assessment
• Perform and review FTA, FMEA, and FMES
• Conduct Common Mode Analyses and provide inputs to customer Zonal Safety and Particular Risks Analyses
• Develop and manage failure rate analysis tools
• Derive and allocate safety requirements to system, hardware, and software items
• Assign and justify FDAL/IDAL in accordance with ARP4754A/B and ARP4761A
• Evaluate architectural mitigations, redundancy, and independence
• Ensure DO-178C and DO-254 planning reflects assigned IDALs and safety-derived requirements
• Establish system safety program plan, work instructions, and analysis templates
• Integrate safety analyses with MBSE and PLM environment

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Aerospace, Electrical, Mechanical, Systems, or Reliability Engineering, or related field
• 8+ years of experience in aerospace system safety
• Direct authorship of ARP4761 analyses on certified programs
• Deep expertise in ARP4761/ARP4761A methods (FHA, PSSA, SSA, FTA, FMEA/FMES, CCA)
• Integration of methods with ARP4754A/B development assurance
• Working knowledge of 14 CFR XX.1309 and 23.2510 safety objectives and associated advisory material
• Experience assigning development assurance levels and deriving safety requirements for hardware and software items developed to DO-254 and DO-178C
• Hands-on experience with quantitative fault tree and reliability analysis tools
• Demonstrated ability to present and defend safety analyses with customers or certification authorities

Nice to have

• Experience with flight control, electromechanical actuation, or propulsion control systems
• Familiarity with safety and reliability tools such as Isograph Reliability Workbench, Ansys medini analyze, or Cameo Safety and Reliability Analyzer
• Experience with model-based safety analysis linked to SysML architectures
• Familiarity with Flow and Siemens Teamcenter
• Experience with MIL-STD-882E system safety programs
• Familiarity with DO-326A/ED-202A airworthiness security processes
• Experience working in startups or fast-paced environments where processes must be built from scratch
• Knowledge of AI/ML applications in safety and systems engineering

Benefits

• Equity participation
• Health
• Dental
• Vision
• 401k

Before you apply

• All final candidates must successfully complete a background check
• All final candidates must successfully complete a drug screening

About the company

Neon Aero, Inc is an aerospace company that combines start-up agility with aerospace expertise to design, build, and scale aircraft using automation and AI-driven tools.