System Safety Engineer

Space Systems Integration (SSI) is a fast-growing engineering company that provides aerospace solutions to a variety of government and commercial customers. Our employees are forward-thinking, self-directed individuals who are committed to solving our customers’ technical challenges.

SSI is searching for a System Safety Engineer located in Albuquerque, NM. This handpicked candidate must possess technical expertise and experience to provide customer insight during system design, manufacture, integration, testing, launch, and early operations. Responsibilities will include system safety oversight of various contractor design, integration, test, and fielding activities, in support of contractor efforts to successfully deliver space systems.

In this position, you will provide System Engineering Technical Assistance (SETA) to the customer at Kirtland AFB, NM. You will work across all of these small teams and provide in-depth background on system safety through all acquisition phases.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Serves as advisory lead to the Chief of Safety for system safety requirements across programs
• Provides safety expertise, guidance, and advice in support of the design, development, production, procurement, integration, and test of such systems across all programs
• Determines appropriate systems safety requirements, including life cycle concerns, and provides technical advice
• Assists programs with safety methods and techniques to determine whether the system is functioning according to design specifications
• Develop acquisition safety criteria and evaluate and monitor the progress of their contractor's designs against the technical guidelines to ensure adequate system safety requirements are met. Provides technical consultation to programs to ensure that critical steps in the safety analysis process as well as critical issues receive appropriate emphasis and utilize best engineering practices
• Establishes safety design and qualification test criteria, techniques, standards, and requirements for support of space and weapon system-related item certifications
• Performs independent safety fault tree analyses, failure modes effects and criticality analyses, common mode failure analyses, single point failure analyses, sneak circuit analyses, software functional hazard analyses, and other relevant safety analyses for safety-critical systems
• Evaluates the safety of mechanical and electrical system and subsystem interfaces
• Determines software contribution to safety, assigns software safety criticality, and determines the requisite level of rigor tasks
• Provides expert technical advice in development, testing, and operational service regarding the safety viability of design, potential failure modes, and risk reduction approaches
• Develops and interprets engineering guidelines for general use across programs, and exercises surveillance and control over the overall engineering effort for assigned programs and areas of responsibility to ensure compliance
• Represents the Chief of Safety in high-level meetings and conferences with representatives from various mission partners and supports resolution of issues
• Serves as technical representative in mishap investigations, major program reviews, inspections, conferences, source selection evaluations, other program evaluations, and major milestone events associated with assigned system programs
• Provides expert system safety engineering advice for testing and evaluation to ensure design and safety performance-based specifications are met
• Supports independent safety reviews and participates in technical exchange meetings
• Aides in the development of program OSS&E baselines and the development and update of OSS&E criteria, standards, and compliance methods
• Reviews OSS&E compliance and makes recommendations regarding system safety of new, modified, and operational systems
• Delivers presentations on safety technical status, accomplishments, and problems
• Other duties as required
  
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Ten (10) years of DoD/IC, or relevant industry work experience on commercial and/or government systems
• An applicable engineering degree from a program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)
• Relevant MS/ME degree
• Understanding of space operational environment and corresponding mission user needs
• Expert knowledge in Operational Safety, Suitability, and Effectiveness (OSS&E) reliability authority requirements and processes and integrating requirements early into acquisition program designs
• Experience in leading programs through the Joint Services Weapon and Laser System Safety Review processes and boards
• Experience in leading programs through test safety review boards and developing test safety plans along with associated hazard analysis and mitigations
• Expert understanding of MIL-STD-882, DAFI 91-401, and DAFI 91-205
• Active TOP SECRET clearance with sensitive compartmentalized information (SCI) and special access program (SAP) eligibility
• No less than two (2) years total SAP and/or SCI environment experience and 1-year total within the last 5 years
• Candidate must maintain a TS/SCI clearance as a condition of employment and be willing to submit to a Counter-Intelligence polygraph
• This position is full-time, on-site at Kirtland AFB, NM, and will require travel up to 25% of the time within the continental United States
  
  
  

Desired Qualifications.

• Fifteen (15) years DoD/IC, or relevant industry hand on work experience on commercial and/or government satellite systems
• Broad range of systems and system safety engineering experience and safety system development
• Experience as safety engineer for a large national security space program
• Experience as a SETA in a government program office
• Experience with ACAT I/II level acquisition programs
  
  
  

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