Senior System Safety Engineer

Lockheed Martin; Manassas (VA); On-site; USD 96,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Flexible work arrangements

401(k) match

Paid time off

Holidays

Parental Leave

Life Insurance

Short-Term Disability

Long-Term Disability

Job summary

Lockheed Martin in Manassas, Virginia, is seeking a System Safety Engineer to support the Mission Electronics Subsystem (MES) Program. This role focuses on C2I safety across subsystem boundaries and requires proactive risk mitigation and robust communication with partner teams.

Responsibilities include leading safety activities, evaluating risk assessments, and ensuring safety requirements are tracked through verification and validation as part of MES program delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience with MIL-STD-882 based Safety programs.
• Experience in System-of-Systems evaluation and assessing multi-component integrated systems.
• Communication experience with partner organizations and customer representatives, delivering messages and resolving issues.
• Experience with Systems Engineering and Safety processes through all development lifecycle.
• Proficient in AI prompting as it applies to this position and practice.
• Must be able to obtain a DoD Secret Security Clearance (US Citizenship).

Responsibilities

• Leading the C2I software safety efforts across subsystem boundaries.
• Evaluating risk assessment and mitigation across mission systems interfaces.
• Ensuring safety requirements are in place and tracked through verification.
• Completing System Safety hazard analyses and documenting results.

Skills

MIL-STD-882 safety programs

AI prompting

DoD Secret Clearance

Tools

CAMEO

MagicDraw

Job description

Standard Job Description

Who we are

Lockheed Martin is a global leader in aerospace, defense, and technology solutions. Our Manassas campus is a thriving center of engineering expertise, fostering a culture that encourages creativity, excellence, and the creation of exceptional products. Our team is made up of dedicated professionals who are passionate about pushing the boundaries of what's possible.

What We’re Doing

At Lockheed Martin, we’re at the forefront of cutting-edge technology and innovation. Our campus in Manassas, Virginia is a hub for engineering excellence, where we tackle some of the world’s most challenging engineering problems. We pride ourselves on our culture of creativity, excellence, and product innovation.

The Work

This position is for a System Safety Engineer to support the Mission Electronics Subsystem (MES) Program at our Manassas, Virginia facility. This Safety Engineer will have a primary focus on mission system Command and Control Integration (C2I). This Safety Engineer will support the lead MES Safety Engineer in conducting the System Safety Program to address the integrated system’s safety position throughout the development, verification and validation. This Safety Engineer will actively participate in the MES System Safety Working Group and will lead regular communication with engineering representatives across industry partners. This Safety Engineer must be highly proactive and capable of implementing a strategy for integrated software safety. This Safety Engineer must be able to evaluate analyses from distributed partner teams, identify integrated safety risk, and determine where additional risk mitigation is required.

The Primary Responsibilities Include

• Leading the C2I software safety efforts, with a focus on ensuring safety features and controls for mitigation/elimination of hazards are in place across subsystem boundaries
• Evaluating risk assessment and mitigation across mission systems interfaces, reviewing safety mishaps and hazards, reporting on risk assessment and mitigation at C2I reviews
• Ensuring mission systems safety requirements are in place and tracking those requirements through verification
• Completing System Safety hazard analyses and documenting results for delivery

Why Join Us

Your Health, Your Wealth, Your Life

Joining Lockheed Martin Means Becoming Part Of a Team That's Making a Significant Impact In The Field Of Engineering. When You Choose To Work With Us, You'll Enjoy

• An excellent working environment equipped with state-of-the-art tools.
• The opportunity to work alongside industry leaders and top-notch professionals.
• A chance to be a part of solving some of the world's most challenging engineering problems.
• A culture that encourages creativity, excellence, and the development of remarkable products.

Performs technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems. Analyses are performed at all levels of total system product to include: concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance and disposal. Ensures the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints. Performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience with MIL-STD-882 based Safety programs
• Experience in System-of-Systems evaluation and assessing multi-component integrated systems
• Communication experience with partner organizations and with customer representatives, delivering appropriate messages and working through issue resolution
• Experience with Systems Engineering and Safety processes in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Proficient in AI prompting as it applies to this position and practice.
• Qualified candidate must be able to obtain a DoD Secret Security Clearance. This requires US Citizenship.

Desired Skills

• Involvement in detailed software and hardware design/development programs
• Experience supporting customer working groups and presenting at program reviews
• Experience with requirements management spanning definition, decomposition, and verification
• Experience with an Agile development environment
• US Navy Undersea Warfare experience, including sonar and sensors
• Experience with system diagrams and modeling, including CAMEO/Magic Draw

Pay Information

Full-Time Salary Range: $95900.00 - $178100.00

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The salary range for this position is as listed on the requisition. Please note that the salary information listed is a general guideline only. Lockheed Martin considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/ training, key skills as well as market(work location) and business considerations when extending an offer.

Benefits offered:

Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10), 401(k) match, Paid time off, Holidays, Parental Leave, EAP, Flexible Spending Accounts, Education Assistance, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability.

• Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered depending on the position. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and can vary from year to year and are tied to a range of performance metrics.
• For (Washington state applicants only) Non-represented full-time employees: accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons; receive at least 90 hours for holidays. Represented full time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.