Senior Systems Safety Engineer — Electric Aircraft

BETA TECHNOLOGIES; South Burlington (VT); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Onsite healthcare

Medical coverage

Dental and Vision

Parental leave

Job summary

BETA Technologies in Vermont is seeking a senior safety engineer to lead the safety assessment process for systems and equipment, coordinate with design teams, and collaborate with regulators to certify safety and reliability for electric aviation.

You will mentor junior engineers, define safety requirements, and support in-service evaluations while engaging with interdisciplinary teams to understand aircraft architectures and interfaces.

Qualifications

• An engineering degree in a relevant discipline.
• Comfortable optimizing design and architecture for safety and reliability.
• 5+ years in ARP4754A/ARP4761-based systems safety in commercial aviation.
• Experience with FHA, FTA, PSSA, SSA, ZSA, PRA, CMA, FMEA.
• Development Assurance Level allocation following ARP4754A.
• Safety requirements generation, validation, and verification.

Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate and execute safety assessments for BETA systems and equipment.
• Collaborate on the design of new products to ensure safety and certifiability.
• Establish failure rates for system components that have not been previously used in aviation applications
• Work with regulators to ensure BETA's systems meet regulatory requirements for safety and reliability
• Assist in evaluating in-service events or issues with BETA systems and equipment
• Perform safety assessments for certification, develop safety requirements, assess safety aspects of new product concepts, support continued operational safety assessments of in-service products, and present safety analyses to regulators
• Collaborate with an interdisciplinary team, by being able to quickly understand the underlying physics and architecture of aircraft system designs and their interfaces with other systems
• Mentoring junior safety engineers

Skills

System safety analysis methods ARP4754

ARP4754A/ARP4761 guidelines

FHA/FTA/PSSA/SSA/ZSA/PRA/CMA/FMEA

Development Assurance Level allocation

Safety requirements generation

Regulatory liaison with FAA

AEH/software safety experience

CAFTA/Polarion tooling

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

CAFTA

Polarion

Job description

BETA Technologies in Vermont is seeking a senior safety engineer to lead the safety assessment process for systems and equipment, coordinate with design teams, and collaborate with regulators to certify safety and reliability for electric aviation.

You will mentor junior engineers, define safety requirements, and support in-service evaluations while engaging with interdisciplinary teams to understand aircraft architectures and interfaces.