Senior Avionics Safety Engineer: Space Hardware

InvestedintheMission; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 121,000 - 169,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation provided

Travel up to 20%

Job summary

Blue Origin in the United States is seeking a System Safety Engineer to design, assess, and assure safety of electronic hardware for spacecraft and facilities. You will work with multi-disciplinary teams to derive safety requirements from PHAs, FHAs, FMECAs, and DO-254, and help ensure compliance throughout development and integration.

This role emphasizes rigorous safety analysis, documentation, and metrics reporting to stakeholders, with relocation and travel up to 20% supported.

Qualifications

• B.Sc. in aerospace, electrical, systems engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years engineering experience in development assurance involving complex electronic hardware; at least 2 years involvement in generating compliance claims to safety standards.
• Strong foundation in system safety analysis and regulatory compliance (PHA, FHA, FMECAs, FTAs, DO-254, MIL-STD-882).
• Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to work independently and in cross-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Support development and safety assurance of electronic hardware across spacecraft and facilities.
• Collaborate with system and responsible engineers to derive and verify safety requirements.
• Review and approve safety analyses and safety requirements; assess risk characterizations.
• Perform independent assessments and reviews against applicable safety standards (DO-254, MIL-STD-882, NASA, Range Safety, FAA).
• Generate program safety metrics and report system safety status to stakeholders.

Skills

System safety analysis

Regulatory compliance

Technical documentation

Education

B.Sc. in aerospace/electrical/systems engineering

Job description

Blue Origin in the United States is seeking a System Safety Engineer to design, assess, and assure safety of electronic hardware for spacecraft and facilities. You will work with multi-disciplinary teams to derive safety requirements from PHAs, FHAs, FMECAs, and DO-254, and help ensure compliance throughout development and integration.

This role emphasizes rigorous safety analysis, documentation, and metrics reporting to stakeholders, with relocation and travel up to 20% supported.