Senior Flight Control System Safety Engineer

The Judge Group; Everett (WA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

The Judge Group is seeking accomplished, mid-career engineers to design, analyze, test and certify flight control systems and components for large commercial aircraft, and to support production and fleet operations of this equipment.

Responsibilities include decomposing requirements, leading certification artifacts and safety analyses, and coordinating with avionics, safety, aerodynamics, suppliers, and regulatory agencies to ensure traceability and regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical, Mechanical, or Aerospace Engineering.
• 5-7 years of technical experience working with Flight Controls.

Responsibilities

• Decomposes airplane level requirements into system level requirements and further decomposes system level requirements into component requirements.
• Participates in and/or lead system, component and detail certification efforts, including: creation of required certification artifacts, such as, system safety analysis, failure modes and effects analysis, and fault tree analysis; confirming and demonstrating traceability to regulatory requirements; and resolution of regulation conflicts.
• Gathers, defines and documents system level requirements to support flight control and mission or trajectory requirements definition.
• Resolve requirement conflicts. Performs and documents analysis and design of Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) systems to validate or assess the system design or models.
• Participates in and/or lead system level and component level validation analysis and testing, including: test monitoring; analysis and test report authoring; supplier test report review and approval; test failure analysis; and test failure mitigation.
• Generally, these activities require successful cross-functional coordination within and outside of including with:, avionics, pilot/crew operations, airplane safety, aerodynamics, Aerospace systems software, suppliers, airline customers, and regulatory agencies.
• Develops solutions and disposition of issues to assure customer satisfaction.

Skills

Flight Controls

System Safety Analysis

FMEA

ARP 4754/4761

GNC design

Requirements development

Cross-functional coordination

Regulatory compliance

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical, Mechanical, or Aerospace Engineering

Job description

The Judge Group is seeking accomplished, mid-career engineers to design, analyze, test and certify flight control systems and components for large commercial aircraft, and to support production and fleet operations of this equipment.

Responsibilities include decomposing requirements, leading certification artifacts and safety analyses, and coordinating with avionics, safety, aerodynamics, suppliers, and regulatory agencies to ensure traceability and regulatory compliance.