What are the responsibilities and job description for the SYSTEM SAFETY ENGINEER (Clearable U.S. Citizen) position at NorthHill Technology?
Our client is seeking a System Safety Engineer to support the application of safety processes and methodologies to a large, complex, safety-critical system.
The ideal candidate must have a minimum of five (5) years of professional experience and be familiar with the system development and safety processes contained in SAE ARP4754A and ARP4761.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Identify and apply appropriate safety standards to system development processes and assessments of a safety critical system
- Verify and validate system safety requirements and their traceability to software and hardware
- Interface with project systems engineers and design engineers to prepare and review safety documentation and analyses, and report their status to project management
- Support development of a System Safety Assessment (SSA) and its supporting analyses that include: Fault Tree Analyses (FTA), Common Cause Analyses (CCA) and Failure Modes and Effects Analyses (FMEA)
- Conduct Safety Risk Management (SRM) activities that include hazard identification, assessment, mitigation and tracking.
- Participate in the project’s System Safety Working Group by way of discussions and presentations with the project customer
REQUIRED:
- BS degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
- Minimum of five (5) years of system safety engineering experience
- Experience with the application of the following development assurance standards: SAE ARP4754A, SAE ARP4761, RTCA DO-178, RTCA DO-278A, and RTCA DO-254
- Familiar with the application of systems engineering and software development processes to the design, development, integration, test, and verification of complex systems
DESIRED:
- Two (2) or more years of experience in systems engineering or software engineering
- MS degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
- GNSS (GPS, Galileo) experience
- Experience with safety and reliability engineering of civil or military aircraft avionics, particularly navigation systems, or other safety-critical equipment
- Experience working with safety regulators
- Knowledge of Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability principles, practices, and tools
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
