Senior Principal Systems Safety Engineer — Aerospace

Northrop Grumman; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Sr. Principal Systems Safety Engineer to support the BQM-34 Targets program in Rancho Bernardo, CA. You will apply systems and safety engineering to identify hazards, develop safety requirements, and validate evidence across the lifecycle.

You will collaborate with multiple teams, prepare safety artifacts, and present findings to customers. A Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of experience, plus an active DoD Secret clearance, are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related STEM field with 8+ years of experience.
• Experience in systems safety engineering on complex systems and performing hazard analyses such as PHA, FHA, SSA.
• Active DoD Secret clearance; ability to obtain higher-level clearance as needed.
• Experience with safety, reliability, or requirements management tools like DOORS.

Responsibilities

• Perform system safety engineering across the lifecycle including hazard identification, analysis, tracking, and mitigation.
• Develop and maintain safety requirements, ensure allocation, implementation and verification.
• Conduct PHA, FHA, SSA, FMEA/FMECA and FTA analyses as applicable.
• Plan safety validation activities and define acceptance criteria with supporting data.
• Present safety findings and recommendations to program and customer stakeholders.

Skills

Systems engineering

Safety engineering

Hazard analysis

FMEA/FMECA

FTA

Safety validation

Documentation

Cross-functional collaboration

Communicating risk

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related STEM

Tools

DOORS/DOORS Next

Job description

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Sr. Principal Systems Safety Engineer to support the BQM-34 Targets program in Rancho Bernardo, CA. You will apply systems and safety engineering to identify hazards, develop safety requirements, and validate evidence across the lifecycle.

You will collaborate with multiple teams, prepare safety artifacts, and present findings to customers. A Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of experience, plus an active DoD Secret clearance, are required.