System Safety Engineer 3

Legion Technical Solutions LLC; Tewksbury (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

Dental insurance

Health insurance

Paid time off

Relocation bonus

Vision insurance

Job summary

Legion Technical Solutions is seeking a Senior System Safety Engineer to support an aerospace defense program at our Massachusetts facility. The role focuses on hazard analysis, system safety planning, and MIL-STD-882E compliance, working with multidisciplinary teams and customer representatives.

You will lead safety activities across hardware, software, firmware, and tests, ensuring integrated safety requirements throughout the lifecycle and coordinating with IPTs and government authorities.

Qualifications

• Experience in system safety engineering for complex, regulated programs.
• Knowledge of MIL-STD-882E system safety processes and risk assessment.
• Ability to work across IPTs and communicate with government customers.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement System Safety Programs compliant with MIL-STD-882E.
• Perform hazard analyses, design safety analyses, and safety planning.
• Execute MIL-STD-882 activities across Management, Analysis, Evaluation, and Verification.
• Identify hazards and implement design or administrative controls.
• Translate safety requirements for hardware, software, firmware, and tests.
• Interface with customer safety representatives and program authorities.

Skills

System Safety Engineering

Hazard analysis

MIL-STD-882E

Systems Engineering

Electrical/Hardware/Software

Aerospace or Defense Systems

Requirements analysis

Job description

Benefits

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Relocation bonus
• Vision insurance

Senior System Safety Engineer

Locations: Tewksbury, Massachusetts

Work Arrangement: Onsite

Employment Type: Full-Time Contract with Legion Technical Solutions

Security Clearance: Must be eligible to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance

Help Build Safety Into Advanced Defense Systems

Legion Technical Solutions is seeking an experienced Senior System Safety Engineer to support a leading aerospace and defense technology organization at one of its Massachusetts engineering facilities.

This is an excellent opportunity for an engineer with a background in System Safety, Systems Engineering, hardware, software, firmware, or electrical engineering who wants to apply that experience to sophisticated, mission-critical defense systems.

You’ll work closely with multidisciplinary engineering teams and government customers to identify hazards, influence system design, develop effective mitigations, and ensure safety requirements are integrated throughout the engineering lifecycle.

What You'll Be Doing

As a Senior System Safety Engineer, you’ll support the development and execution of one or more comprehensive MIL-STD-882E System Safety Programs.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Develop and implement System Safety Programs compliant with MIL-STD-882E
• Perform System Safety planning, hazard analyses, and design safety analyses.
• Execute applicable MIL-STD-882 activities across:
  • Task Series 100 - Management
  • Task Series 200 - Analysis
  • Task Series 300 - Evaluation
  • Task Series 400 - Verification
• Identify potential hazards and work with engineering teams to eliminate them through design or establish effective engineering and administrative controls.
• Evaluate system requirements, customer specifications, and applicable military standards from a safety perspective.
• Translate safety objectives into clear requirements and guidance for hardware, software, firmware, systems, electrical, integration, and test teams.
• Collaborate across Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) to ensure safety considerations are incorporated throughout the system architecture and design.
• Support technical reviews and brief program safety considerations as part of the formal safety approval process.
• Prepare internal and customer-facing reports documenting hazard analyses, risk assessments, safety findings, and recommendations.
• Interface directly with customer safety representatives and government approval authorities.
• Establish and manage System Safety Working Groups involving key engineering, program, and customer stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Program Management throughout the lifecycle-from program startup and development through production, sustainment, demilitarization, and disposal.

What We're Looking For

We're looking for an engineer who combines strong technical fundamentals with the ability to work across engineering disciplines and communicate effectively with both technical teams and customers.

Relevant experience may include:

• System Safety Engineering
• Systems Engineering
• Software or Firmware Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Hardware Engineering
• Aerospace or Defense Systems Engineering
• Hazard identification, assessment, mitigation, and tracking
• Requirements analysis and development
• Technical design reviews
• Safety verification and validation

Experience working with complex systems in a highly structured or regulated engineering environment will be particularly valuable.

Highly Desired Experience

• MIL-STD-882 / MIL-STD-882E
• DoD System Safety Programs
• Preliminary and detailed hazard analysis
• System and subsystem safety analysis
• Hardware and/or software safety
• Safety requirements development
• Risk assessment and hazard mitigation
• Integrated Product Team environments
• System Safety Working Groups
• Customer-facing technical presentations
• Government or defense acquisition programs

What Success Looks Like

Success in this position means becoming a trusted safety engineering resource to both the program and customer.

You'll be expected to understand the architecture and design well enough to identify meaningful safety risks, communicate those risks clearly, and work collaboratively with engineering teams to develop practical solutions.

The strongest engineers in this environment don't simply document hazards—they influence the design so that hazards are eliminated or appropriately controlled before they become larger program issues.

Why Consider This Opportunity?

This position offers the opportunity to work on sophisticated aerospace and defense technologies while developing expertise that is highly valued throughout the defense industry.

You'll have the opportunity to:

• Work on complex, mission-critical defense systems.
• Influence system architecture and engineering decisions.
• Collaborate with experienced systems, software, hardware, electrical, test, and safety engineers.
• Interface with government customers and technical approval authorities.
• Develop deeper expertise in MIL-STD-882E System Safety Engineering.
• Support programs across the complete engineering lifecycle.

Work at one of several major Massachusetts engineering locations.

About Legion Technical Solutions

Legion Technical Solutions (LTS) is a specialized technical staffing and workforce solutions company supporting organizations across aerospace, defense, intelligence, engineering, and advanced technology.

At LTS, we believe talented professionals should be treated as more than a résumé submitted against a requisition. We focus on understanding your experience, career objectives, and what you're looking for in your next opportunity.

As the contract employer for this position, Legion Technical Solutions provides the employment relationship and ongoing support while you work directly alongside our client's engineering organization.

Our goal is simple: connect exceptional technical professionals with meaningful work and support them throughout the assignment.

About Our Client – Confidential

Our client is one of the world's most respected aerospace and defense technology organizations, with a long history of developing sophisticated systems supporting the United States and its allies.

Their engineers work on some of the industry's most challenging technologies across areas such as advanced sensing, radar, integrated defense, communications, command and control, and other mission-critical systems.

This opportunity provides the chance to work alongside experienced engineering professionals within a large, technically sophisticated organization while contributing to programs with direct national security impact.

Candidates must

• Be a U.S. Citizen.
• Be capable of obtaining and maintaining the U.S. Government security clearance required for the assigned program.
• Meet applicable federal security eligibility requirements.
• Candidates who already possess an active clearance are also strongly encouraged to apply.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Legion Technical Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.