Senior Aerospace Safety Systems Engineer

Northrop Grumman

El Segundo (CA)

On-site

USD 177,000 - 266,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life and disability insurance

Savings plan

Paid holidays and PTO

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems in Redondo Beach, CA, seeks a Staff Safety Systems Engineer to lead system safety activities across the lifecycle, identify hazards, and validate safety requirements against design and test evidence.

The role collaborates with systems, software, hardware, and integration teams; requires deep risk assessment experience, MBSE familiarity, and strong communication with DoD customers. Start dates depend on funding.

Qualifications

Bachelors in a STEM field with 12+ years relevant military/professional experience, or Masters with 10+ years, or PhD with 8+ years.
Experience with risk assessments and system safety analyses.
Strong communication skills with customers and DoD personnel.
Knowledge of MBSE and CAMEO is preferred.

Responsibilities

Perform system safety engineering activities across the lifecycle, including hazard identification, analysis, tracking, and mitigation.
Develop and maintain system and subsystem safety requirements, allocated, implemented, and verified.
Conduct PHA, FHA, SSA, FMEA/FMECA, FTA analyses as applicable.
Plan and execute safety validation activities and acceptance criteria.
Collaborate with systems, software, hardware, integration/test, and reliability teams on safety.