Autonomous Aircraft Safety & Certification Lead

Grid Aero

San Leandro (CA)

On-site

USD 150,000 - 200,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Job summary

Grid.aero is seeking a System Safety and Certification Engineer to lead safety and airworthiness for its autonomous aircraft. You will define the safety approach, run analyses, and own the path to airworthiness and flight approval, while challenging complexity that does not add safety.

You will work with a fast-moving team solving hard problems at the intersection of autonomy, defense, and scalable air mobility, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and proven safety through rigorous

Qualifications

5+ years of experience in system safety, reliability, or airworthiness for aircraft.
Experience with hazard analysis and risk assessment, including FHA, FMEA, CCA, and fault tree analysis.
Familiarity with ARP4761, ARP4754, or MIL-HDBK-516 required.
Experience with military airworthiness or uncrewed aircraft preferred.
Ability to explain safety tradeoffs clearly to engineers, leadership, and regulators.
Legal Requirement: U.S. persons only due to export control laws.

Responsibilities

Lead safety activities, including hazard analysis and system safety assessments.
Set safety and reliability targets and drive design changes to meet them.
Identify applicable airworthiness criteria and own the certification plan.
Work with government airworthiness authorities to secure flight approvals.
Run reliability and maintainability analyses and feed results back into design.
Assign design assurance levels for hardware and software with engineering leads.