Systems Safety Engineer

Accord Technologies Inc; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Accord Technologies Inc in Seattle, WA seeks a Systems Safety Engineer with 5–10 years of experience to lead safety analyses and ensure compliance with ARP4754 and related DO standards for aircraft control systems. You will collaborate with engineering, operations, and quality teams to define requirements, architectures, and verification plans.

The role requires strong written and verbal English for technical reports and presentations; familiarity with requirements management and safety

Qualifications

• 5 to 10 years of relevant work experience.
• BA or BS Degree in an engineering discipline.
• Experience of system development following ARP4754.
• Familiarity with DO178, DO254 and DO160.
• Understands Systems Engineering principles, including interpreting and writing requirements, system architectures and designs.
• Knowledge of requirements management, validation and verification.
• Familiarity with Software development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Work effectively with all functional groups to achieve product performance and cost targets, and ensure safety compliance.
• Plan, estimate, prioritize, and manage work activities to meet project schedules and budgets.
• Produce design and development documentation and ensure traceability to customer specifications and company requirements.
• Contribute to all Systems Engineering aspects from architecture to verification.
• Participate in certification activities for essential and critical level control systems.
• Communicate findings and recommendations clearly in technical reports and presentations.

Skills

Systems Engineering

Requirements management

Software development lifecycle

Project planning

Stakeholder communication

Education

BA/BS in engineering

Tools

ARP4754

DO-178/DO-254/DO-160

Job description

Duration Fulltime /Contract

Work Shift - Mon-Tues-Wed-Thurs-Fri Onsite

Visa: USC/GC

Location Seattle, WA (locals)

Job Title - Systems Safety Engineer

Job Description Summary

• Work effectively with all functional groups to achieve product performance and cost targets. Build quality and manufacturability into the design. Define/understand/comply with company and regulatory guidelines to assure a safe operating environment.
• Demonstrate proficiency with verbal and written English for technical reports, presentations, analyses, or other communications at the appropriate level throughout the organization.
• Understand, decompose, and define product and process requirements to support product development
• Plan, estimate, prioritize, and manage work activities to support meeting project schedules and budgets.
• Utilize experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Produce thorough and accurate design and development work of suitable complexity that meets all customer specifications and company requirements for schedule, cost, producibility, quality, and reliability.
• Generate and review product development documentation including proposals, technical reports, procedures, correspondence, etc. necessary to satisfy customer and program requirements.
• Self-directed and motivated while working and communicating effectively within a team environment that consists of several engineering, operations, quality, and business disciplines.
• Contribute to all Systems Engineering aspects (architecture and components) from initial product research, architecture definition, requirements definition, requirements validation, systems verification, management, and flow down to functional engineering groups
• Experience following industry recognized processes (e.g. ARP4754)
• Development of System Safety analyses such as reliability predictions, Failure Modes and Effect Analyses, Fault Tree Analysis, Common Mode Analysis and Single Event Upset analysis (ARP4761)
• Participate in the certification compliance activities of essential and critical level control systems for aircraft applications
• Any other task assigned by supervisor or management

Minimum Qualifications

Experience: 5 to 10 years of relevant work experience

Education/Certification: BA or BS Degree in an engineering discipline.

Experience of system development following industry recognized processes (e.g. ARP4754)

• Familiarity with DO178, DO254 and DO160
• Understands Systems Engineering principles, including interpreting and writing requirements, system architectures and designs
• Knowledge of requirements management, validation and verification.
• Familiarity with Software development lifecycle.