Senior Systems Safety Engineer — Equity Eligible

Swarm Aero; United States; On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful equity

Medical, dental, vision, and 401k

PTO and paid sick leave

Monthly wellness stipend

Daily catered lunch

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Swarm Aero in the United States is seeking a System Safety Engineer to architect safety into swarming UAS designs. You will lead SSA, FHA, FTA analyses, derive safety requirements, and work with avionics, flight control, propulsion, and power teams to implement mitigation and redundancy.

You will contribute to DAL allocations, support design reviews, and coordinate with airworthiness stakeholders, with a focus on fail-operational behavior and safe failure modes.

Qualifications

• 7 years of system safety experience on aerospace, defense, or UAS programs.
• Strong foundation in systems engineering principles and practices
• Hands-on experience with SSA, FHA, FTA on flight-critical systems
• Strong understanding of failure mode classification, DALs, and safety architecture principles
• Experience applying safety objectives to software development
• Experience with ARP4761 and ARP4754
• Experience with MIL-STD-882 and JSSSEH
• Experience with DO-178 and DO-254
• Ability to communicate safety findings clearly to engineering, test, and program leadership
• US person status required

Responsibilities

• Lead aircraft and system safety analysis (SSA), functional hazard assessment (FHA), fault tree analysis (FTA), common cause analysis (CCA), common mode analysis (CMA)
• Derive safety requirements and work with subsystem teams to develop architectural mitigations, failure containment, redundancy, and detection across avionics, flight control, propulsion, and power systems
• Define and justify development assurance level (DAL) allocations to mitigate software design errors
• Support design reviews, test readiness reviews, and flight readiness reviews with safety inputs and findings
• Collaborate with systems engineering on architecture decisions with safety implications including automatic takeoff/landing, airborne detect and avoid (DAA), and signal loss behaviors for navigation and communications
• Develop safety-related inputs to flight authorization packages and coordinate with airworthiness stakeholders
• Lead root‑cause identification and corrective action planning on safety‑related issues discovered during analysis, simulation, integration, or test

Skills

System safety analysis

FHA/FTA

DAL allocations

Software safety

ARP4761/ARP4754

MIL-STD-882

DO-178/DO-254

Communication

US person status

Job description

Swarm Aero in the United States is seeking a System Safety Engineer to architect safety into swarming UAS designs. You will lead SSA, FHA, FTA analyses, derive safety requirements, and work with avionics, flight control, propulsion, and power teams to implement mitigation and redundancy.

You will contribute to DAL allocations, support design reviews, and coordinate with airworthiness stakeholders, with a focus on fail-operational behavior and safe failure modes.