Orbital Mission Safety Engineer

Outlier; Auckland; Hybride; NZD 120 000 - 190 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Outlier, an innovative high-velocity aerospace company in Auckland, seeks a Mission Safety Engineer. You will address complex analytical and safety challenges across all mission phases from design to recovery, collaborating with diverse engineering teams to ensure safe, compliant operations.

You could be developing expertise alongside senior engineers or taking technical ownership of major analyses to shape mission safety strategy at Outlier.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Physics, Applied Mathematics or related field.
• 4+ years in engineering analysis or aerospace systems.
• Experience owning analytical workstreams or safety-critical modelling.
• Strong knowledge of launch vehicle dynamics and mission analysis.

Responsabilités

• Develop mission safety analyses across trajectory, debris, toxic hazards, casualty expectation and probabilistic risk.
• Build and improve the models, simulations and analytical tools that help understand vehicle behaviour and risks.
• Turn complex analysis into clear, defensible engineering evidence for mission approval and regulatory submissions.
• Develop and verify modelling assumptions, methods and outputs for traceability and review readiness.
• Support safety assessments and methodologies for regulatory requirements like FAA Part 450.
• Collaborate with GNC, avionics, propulsion, mechanical and mission ops engineers.
• Support mission reviews, flight operations and anomaly investigations with rapid analysis.
• Challenge and improve tools and processes to scale mission safety capabilities.

Connaissances

Flight dynamics

Orbital mechanics

Numerical modelling

Python

C/C++

MATLAB

Technical writing

Mentoring

Formation

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Physics, Applied Mathematics

Outils

MATLAB

Python

C/C++

Description du poste

Outlier, an innovative high-velocity aerospace company in Auckland, seeks a Mission Safety Engineer. You will address complex analytical and safety challenges across all mission phases from design to recovery, collaborating with diverse engineering teams to ensure safe, compliant operations.

You could be developing expertise alongside senior engineers or taking technical ownership of major analyses to shape mission safety strategy at Outlier.