System Safety Engineer II

Raytheon; Massachusetts; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Raytheon is hiring for a System Safety Engineer II in Massachusetts. This onsite role supports the System Safety/HSI discipline across the product lifecycle, ensuring hazards are identified and mitigations implemented to protect personnel and hardware. You will work with multiple IPTs, engage leadership, and contribute to customer reviews.

The position emphasizes rigorous safety practices, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver safe, reliable systems for warfighters.

Qualifications

• Degree in STEM with at least 2 years of relevant experience.
• Experience with risk assessment concepts.
• Experience creating technical reports and presentations.

Responsibilities

• Execute the safety strategy for the program to meet milestones with system safety/HSI features.
• Support the project IMS by integrating safety tasks into the schedule.
• Engage leads for guidance on technical execution and artifact reviews.
• Participate in multi-IPT meetings to align system safety items with program issues.
• Ensure leadership understands safety requirements, hazards, and mitigations.
• Meet internal and external commitments and deliveries.
• Own technical solutions and collaborate across IPTs to enable overall product development and testing.

Skills

Risk assessment

Safety analysis

Technical writing

Presentations

Education

STEM degree

Tools

Test equipment

Job description

Raytheon’s System Safety / Human System Integration (HSI) Department ensures product safety by identifying hazards, assessing risks, and implementing solutions to protect people, hardware, and the environment. Leveraging rigorous engineering principles, the team integrates safety into every phase of the system lifecycle, enhancing reliability and safeguarding our warfighters.

We are currently hiring for System Safety Engineer II. This is an onsite role and can be located in Woburn, Tewksbury, Marlborough, Andover or Portsmouth RI.

What You Will Do:

• Execute the safety strategy for the program to meet all its milestones with system safety/HSI features integrated into the product in compliance with contract and awarded funding
• Support the program schedule and integrated system safety tasks and activities into program Integrated Master Schedule (IMS)
• Engage the Lead System Safety Engineer and Portfolio Engineering Lead for guidance on technical execution, artifact review, attending customer reviews, etc.
• Support multi-IPT program meetings to ensure that system safety items are considered and to understand current program-wide issues
• Ensure program leadership understands system safety requirements, hazards, and planned mitigations
• Meet internal and external commitments (deliveries)
• Own technical solutions and collaborate across IPTs to realize the solution that makes the overall product development and test successful

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 2 years of prior relevant experience
• Experience with risk assessment concepts
• Experience with creating technical reports, technical writing and/or creating presentations

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Active/transferable DoD security clearance
• Experience with test equipment & test equipment safety, in a laboratory setting
• Experience performing MIL-STD-882 System Safety Program tasks and analyses, involving management (task series 100), analysis (task series 200), evaluation (task series 300), and verification (task series 400)
• Experience reviewing software code and requirements for safety considerations
• Experience interfacing with other engineering functions: Systems Engineering, Software or Firmware Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Hardware Engineering

What We Offer:

• Our values drive our actions, behaviors, and performance with a vision for a safer, more connected world. At RTX we value: Safety, Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, and Innovation.