System Safety Engineer / Principal System Safety Engineer

0090 CORP-Corporate Office; United States; On-site; USD 92,000 - 171,000; Full time

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems seeks a Principal System Safety Engineer to advance safety across complex aerospace systems in Palmdale, CA. The role emphasizes collaboration, risk-based safety design, and compliance with MIL-STD-882 and DO-178/DO-254 related standards.

Responsibilities include safety requirement development, hazard analyses, and cross-team support for Airworthiness certification. A security clearance and agile collaboration are required, with potential for overtime and

Qualifications

• Bachelor of science in STEM with 2+ years of experience or Master of science in STEM with 3+ years of experience.
• Active US Government Secret clearance or higher (or in Continuous Evaluation).
• Experience with MIL-STD-882 and hazard analyses.

Responsibilities

• Applies MIL-STD-882 safety engineering principles to product systems and software.
• Develops safety requirements for hardware/software systems.
• Reviews architecture, requirements, and safety artifacts for compliance.

Skills

Safety engineering

MIL-STD-882

Hazard analyses

Software safety analyses

AGILE development

Leadership communication

Education

BS in STEM with experience

MS in STEM with experience

Tools

DOORS

Cameo

CPLM

Windchill Quality Solutions

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

Description At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Principal System Safety Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. The position will be located in Palmdale, CA The successful candidate will be collaborative, open, transparent, and team-oriented with a focus on team empowerment & shared responsibility, flexibility, continuous learning, work product ownership, and a culture of automation.

Essential Responsibilities

• Applies knowledge, methodologies, and principles of safety engineering as defined in MIL-STD-882 and Software Safety engineering as defined in the Joint Software System Safety Engineering Handbook (JSSSEH)
• Develops and evaluates product systems, associated support equipment, and facilities, functional specifications and operations, and establishes safety requirements for assigned systems
• Develops requirements and designs, assess implementations for hazard and causal factors to satisfy critical system safety objectives
• Reviews architecture, requirements, and interface artifacts for safety on complex hardware/software systems
• Independently analyzes and recommends safety criteria in system design, equipment, and procedures to control or eliminate hazards
• Collaborate with various design teams in the execution of various MIL-STD-882E hazard analyses
• Reviews and prepares engineering and technical analyses, reports, change proposals, and other technical documentation for system safety and in support of Airworthiness Certification IAW MIL-HDBK-516
• Reviews Test Plans and Procedures for safety requirements verification and potential hazardous operations
• Perform software safety analysis (Experience in AGILE development)
• Ability to effectively communicate with all levels of leadership and customers and work independently
• Able to work non-standard hours and multiple shifts on a part-time basis. Overtime, odd shifts, and weekend work will occasionally be required.

Basic Qualifications

• System Safety Engineer: Bachelor of science Degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and 2 years of experience, or a Master of science Degree in a STEM discipline
• Principal System Safety Engineer: Bachelor of science Degree in STEM a discipline and 5 years of experience, or a Master of science Degree in a STEM discipline with 3 years of experience.
• Must have an active US Government Secret clearance or higher (with a background investigation completed within the last 6 years or currently enrolled into Continuous Evaluation)
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance.
• Must have experience with MIL-STD-882
• Must have experience with analyses like preliminary hazard analyses, function/system/subsystem hazard analyses, fault tree analyses, software system safety analyses and/or safety assessment reports
• Must have experience analyzing, recommending, and driving safety into system design, equipment, and procedures to mitigate or eliminate hazards
• Must have experience developing, reviewing, updating and/or approving system safety artifacts and system safety requirements
• Must have experience with requirements development, system/software architecture, hardware/ software design, software code implementation, test, verification, and validation

Preferred Qualifications

• BS in Software Engineering or Computer engineering
• Familiarity with requirements tools such as DOORS, Cameo, CPLM, Safety and Reliability tools such as PTC Windchill Quality Solutions, Agile software tools, JIRA, FISHEYE and/or Confluence
• Working knowledge of Military systems safety and process standards and their Industry equivalent such as: MIL-STD-882, DO-178B/C, DO-248, DO-254, ARP-4754, ARP-4761, MIL-HDBK-516C, etc.
• Working knowledge of flight test engineering, Software systems integration engineering, and software test engineering
• Working knowledge of detect and avoid systems and associated process standards such as DO-365
• Experience in Hardware/Software Integration
• System Software Safety Experience
• Experience in military aviation

Primary Level Salary Range: $91,800.00 - $137,600.00

Secondary Level Salary Range: $114,000.00 - $171,000.00

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results.

Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives.

In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO.

U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.

We are a pioneering company. With careers across all areas: air, cyber, land, sea and space – our 90,000 employees work as one to defend and define the future. Northrop Grumman careers and internships are as varied as your interests, with a lifetime of potential that will give you every opportunity to do your best work. Working together with people from many backgrounds, personal passions and disciplines, we share a drive to push the boundaries of science, technology and engineering to meet the ever evolving needs of our customers worldwide.