Spacecraft Systems Safety & Mission Assurance Lead

Industrious Ventures; El Segundo (CA); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Space Kinetic is seeking a Spacecraft System Safety & Mission Assurance Engineer to ensure our space vehicles can safely and reliably accomplish their missions. This role will identify mission risks, evaluate off-nominal conditions, and influence spacecraft architecture, verification planning, and fault‑protection strategies for government space programs.

Responsibilities include hazard analyses, fault tree analyses, FMEAs, translating safety objectives into verifiable requirements, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant engineering field (Aerospace, Systems, Electrical, Mechanical or Computer).
• 3–7 years of experience with spacecraft, launch vehicles, autonomous or safety‑critical systems.
• Experience in system safety, reliability, fault management, or mission assurance.
• Knowledge of spacecraft subsystem interactions and end‑to‑end vehicle operations.
• Experience with fault protection, hazard assessments, FMEAs, or similar methods.
• Ability to develop and verify requirements across multiple engineering disciplines.
• Strong technical writing, communication and risk‑informed judgment.

Responsibilities

• Perform hazard analyses, fault tree analyses, FMEAs and other safety assessments.
• Identify hazard controls, residual risks, and single‑point/common‑cause failures.
• Develop fault detection, isolation, containment, recovery and safing requirements.
• Evaluate architecture, autonomy, modes, command paths and off‑nominal behavior.
• Translate safety objectives into verifiable system requirements.
• Verify hazard controls through analysis, testing, simulation and fault injection.
• Support anomaly investigations, design readiness reviews and customer safety reviews.
• Maintain traceability across hazards, controls, requirements, procedures and verification evidence.

Skills

System safety

Reliability

Fault management

Mission assurance

Spacecraft systems engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in Aerospace/Systems/EE/ME/CS

Tools

Cameo

MagicDraw

SysML

DOORS

Jama

Job description

Space Kinetic is seeking a Spacecraft System Safety & Mission Assurance Engineer to ensure our space vehicles can safely and reliably accomplish their missions. This role will identify mission risks, evaluate off-nominal conditions, and influence spacecraft architecture, verification planning, and fault‑protection strategies for government space programs.

Responsibilities include hazard analyses, fault tree analyses, FMEAs, translating safety objectives into verifiable requirements, and