Security-Cleared Aerospace System Safety Architect

Synergize Consulting Ltd; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 86,000 - 123,000; Full time

Job summary

Synergize Consulting Ltd in the United Kingdom seeks an experienced Principal System Safety Engineer with current SC clearance to support the development of advanced aerospace technologies. The role focuses on integrating complex sensing, communications, and defence systems within a safety-critical aircraft architecture.

You will lead system safety activities across the lifecycle, identify hazards, manage mitigations to ALARP, and present findings at design reviews.

Qualifications

• Security cleared currently.
• Experience conducting safety analysis of complex systems in safety-critical industries.
• Experience across engineering life cycles from design to verification & validation.
• Proven ability to lead multi-team safety work packages.
• Excellent written and verbal communications for stakeholders at varying seniority.
• Knowledge of ARP4754B/ARP4761A/RTCA DO-254 or DO-178C would be advantageous.
• Experience with radar, lasers, sensors or Defensive Aids Systems (DAS).
• Awareness of information security principles in complex engineering programmes.
• Involvement in cross-industry safety initiatives (IET or SCSC).

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist safety advice to Safety and Design Authority, supporting product safety authorisation per established processes.
• Lead system safety activities, ensuring compliance with the Safety Management Plan.
• Identify and analyse intrinsic and functional hazards, developing mitigations to reduce residual safety risks to ALARP.
• Develop and manage system safety requirements, ensuring they are allocated to subsystems and engineering teams.
• Review subsystem-level safety analyses and integrate findings into the overall system safety assessment.
• Review aircraft-level safety analyses for alignment with the wider system safety assessment.
• Produce and maintain integrated system safety documentation and assessments.
• Identify and manage cross-system dependencies and safety implications across the aircraft architecture.
• Present safety assessment findings at programme design reviews with clear risk communication.

Skills

Security cleared

System safety

Cross-functional

Communication

Aerospace safety standards

Tools

Cameo Systems Modeler

IBM DOORS

Adelard ASCE

Isograph Reliability Workbench

Job description

Synergize Consulting Ltd in the United Kingdom seeks an experienced Principal System Safety Engineer with current SC clearance to support the development of advanced aerospace technologies. The role focuses on integrating complex sensing, communications, and defence systems within a safety-critical aircraft architecture.

You will lead system safety activities across the lifecycle, identify hazards, manage mitigations to ALARP, and present findings at design reviews.