Mission Assurance Engineer — Aerospace Defense

Long Wall Company; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Heavily subsidized medical, dental, &视

Life insurance & LTD

4% 401k match

Student loan repayment assistance

Paid parental leave

Family planning assistance

Paid time off & flexible vacation

Job summary

Long Wall Company, founded to accelerate missile defense for the U.S. and allies, seeks a Safety & Mission Assurance Engineer to oversee reliability, safety, and readiness for major programs.

You will embed safety into design decisions, coordinate with systems engineering, and drive readiness across reviews and tests. The role emphasizes independent oversight while staying tightly integrated with engineering and program management to ensure mission success and risk mitigation in a fast-paced

Qualifications

• Experience performing reliability analyses and hazard assessments.
• Ability to evaluate technical maturity and readiness for integration, test, and flight.
• Strong written and verbal communication to defend assessments to engineers and leaders.

Responsibilities

• Lead reliability and safety evaluations across programs.
• Develop and maintain mission assurance processes including readiness criteria.
• Support system readiness reviews (design, integration, TRR, FRR).
• Provide independent evaluation of technical maturity and verification completeness.
• Collaborate with systems engineering to align requirements with safety expectations.
• Coordinate with chief engineering to assess design change impacts on reliability and safety.
• Track program risks and lead risk boards with cross-functional teams.
• Ensure test plans and configurations meet safety and readiness requirements.
• Evaluate supplier quality and reliability risks for hardware.
• Document lessons learned from flight and integration attempts.

Skills

Reliability engineering

Safety analysis

Hazard analyses

Risk management

Flight readiness

Technical communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace/Mechanical/Systems Reliability Engineering

Tools

Configuration management

Job description

Long Wall Company, founded to accelerate missile defense for the U.S. and allies, seeks a Safety & Mission Assurance Engineer to oversee reliability, safety, and readiness for major programs.

You will embed safety into design decisions, coordinate with systems engineering, and drive readiness across reviews and tests. The role emphasizes independent oversight while staying tightly integrated with engineering and program management to ensure mission success and risk mitigation in a fast-paced