Senior System Safety Engineer – Space Vehicle Safety Lead

Blue Origin; Washington; Sur place; USD 140 000 - 200 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

401(k) with company match

Education Support Program

Stock Options

Paid Time Off

Résumé du poste

Blue Origin LLC is seeking a Fully Independent System Safety Engineer to own end‑to‑end safety assessment for vehicle elements and subsystems on the New Glenn program. You will lead hazard analyses, safety cases, and safety-related design constraints, reporting into AERS Engineering & Systems.

You will also contribute to SE integration, verification planning, and certification activities across EDRs, PSRs, and FRRs, while collaborating with FAA and customers.

Qualifications

• BS in aerospace, systems, mechanical, or related field; MS preferred.
• 5–10 years of combined system safety and systems engineering experience.
• Hands-on hazard analysis methods including FHA, FMECA, FTA, CCA, PHA; authorship on real programs.
• Knowledge of SE processes: requirements decomposition, verification planning, interface management, configuration control.
• Familiarity with MIL-STD-882, MIL-STD-1629, SAE ARP4761, NASA-STD-8719, FAA 14 CFR Part 450.
• Ability to quantify risk via probabilistic methods and failure rate databases.
• Strong technical writing and presentation skills for safety reviews.

Responsabilités

• Author and maintain FMECAs for subsystems.
• Derive CILs and basic events for FTA.
• Develop and maintain FTAs for safety-critical functions.
• Quantify unreliability and identify single-point and common-cause failures.
• Perform CCA and Zonal Safety Assessments.
• Own hazard sheets and hazard tracking; drive hazard closure.
• Develop safety requirements and derive safety-related design constraints.
• Flow safety needs into DNG requirements and verify closure.
• Support Architecture Safety Assessments and ensure redundancy claims are justified.
• Present safety findings at design reviews and safety boards.
• Prepare safety packages for ECRs and nonconformance dispositions.
• Lead or support mishap investigation safety analyses.

Connaissances

FHA/FMECA/FTA experience

Hazard analysis

Quantify risk

Systems engineering

Written communication

Presentation to reviews

Python

MATLAB

Safety analysis tools

Crewed/spaceflight safety

Formation

B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field

M.S. strongly preferred

Outils

Python

MATLAB

Reliability databases (MIL-HDBK-217, NPRD/EPRD)

Description du poste

Blue Origin LLC is seeking a Fully Independent System Safety Engineer to own end‑to‑end safety assessment for vehicle elements and subsystems on the New Glenn program. You will lead hazard analyses, safety cases, and safety-related design constraints, reporting into AERS Engineering & Systems.

You will also contribute to SE integration, verification planning, and certification activities across EDRs, PSRs, and FRRs, while collaborating with FAA and customers.