System Safety Engineer

The Judge Group; Everett (WA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

The Judge Group is seeking accomplished, mid-career engineers to design, analyze, test and certify flight control systems and components for large commercial aircraft, and to support production and fleet operations of this equipment.

Responsibilities include decomposing requirements, leading certification artifacts and safety analyses, and coordinating with avionics, safety, aerodynamics, suppliers, and regulatory agencies to ensure traceability and regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical, Mechanical, or Aerospace Engineering.
• 5-7 years of technical experience working with Flight Controls.

Responsibilities

• Decomposes airplane level requirements into system level requirements and further decomposes system level requirements into component requirements.
• Participates in and/or lead system, component and detail certification efforts, including: creation of required certification artifacts, such as, system safety analysis, failure modes and effects analysis, and fault tree analysis; confirming and demonstrating traceability to regulatory requirements; and resolution of regulation conflicts.
• Gathers, defines and documents system level requirements to support flight control and mission or trajectory requirements definition.
• Resolve requirement conflicts. Performs and documents analysis and design of Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) systems to validate or assess the system design or models.
• Participates in and/or lead system level and component level validation analysis and testing, including: test monitoring; analysis and test report authoring; supplier test report review and approval; test failure analysis; and test failure mitigation.
• Generally, these activities require successful cross-functional coordination within and outside of including with:, avionics, pilot/crew operations, airplane safety, aerodynamics, Aerospace systems software, suppliers, airline customers, and regulatory agencies.
• Develops solutions and disposition of issues to assure customer satisfaction.

Skills

Flight Controls

System Safety Analysis

FMEA

ARP 4754/4761

GNC design

Requirements development

Cross-functional coordination

Regulatory compliance

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical, Mechanical, or Aerospace Engineering

Job description

• This requisition is seeking accomplished, self-motivated mid-career engineers to design, analyze, test and certify flight control systems and components for large commercial aircraft as well as to support the production and fleet operations of this equipment. This requisition is for multiple positions in multiple flight control disciplines performing many of the tasks listed below.
• Decomposes airplane level requirements into system level requirements and further decomposes system level requirements into component requirements
• Participates in and/or lead system, component and detail certification efforts, including: creation of required certification artifacts, such as, system safety analysis, failure modes and effects analysis, and fault tree analysis; confirming and demonstrating traceability to regulatory requirements; and resolution of regulation conflicts.
• Gathers, defines and documents system level requirements to support flight control and mission or trajectory requirements definition.
• Resolve requirement conflicts. Performs and documents analysis and design of Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) systems to validate or assess the system design or models.
• Participates in and/or lead system level and component level validation analysis and testing, including: test monitoring; analysis and test report authoring; supplier test report review and approval; test failure analysis; and test failure mitigation.
• Generally, these activities require successful cross-functional coordination within and outside of including with:, avionics, pilot/crew operations, airplane safety, aerodynamics, Aerospace systems software, suppliers, airline customers, and regulatory agencies.
• Develops solutions and disposition of issues to assure customer satisfaction.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical, Mechanical, or Aerospace Engineering
• 5-7 years of technical experience working with Flight Controls

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• 5 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Experience with System Safety Analysis including failure modes and effects analysis; fault tree analysis; common cause analysis, and single & multiple failure analysis
• Knowledge/Experience with ARP 4754 and ARP 4761
• Experience with flight controls system and component architecture
• Experience in requirements development, design, analysis, and verification & validation of flight control systems
• Experience using requirement management tools such as IBM Rational DOORS
• Experience with manufacturing regulated and certified, safety critical components and software

Typical Education/ Experience:

Bachelor's degree and typically 9 or more years' experience in an engineering classification or a Master's degree with typically 7 or more years' experience in an engineering classification or a PhD degree with typically 4 or more years' experience in an engineering classification. Bachelor, Master or Doctorate of Science degree from an accredited course of study, in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics or chemistry. ABET is the preferred, although not required, accreditation standard.