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Aircraft System Safety Engineer

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Job Description - Aircraft System Safety Engineer

As a key early member of our Engineering Organization, you will architect and execute the system safety and certification pathways for our emerging technology unmanned utility aircraft. This is a hands-on role where you will shape safety processes, define product-level safety strategy, and partner directly with head of certification, founders, engineering leads, and regulators. You will help the company from the perspective of system safety compliance in support of experimental certificate of airworthiness and eventual Type Certification roadmap.

What You’ll Do

  • Build the system safety function from the ground up, including safety processes, templates, and review boards.
  • Perform and collaborate with internal stakeholders to educate on system safety assessments and analyses in accordance with ARP4761 & ARP4754A, including but not limited to Functional Hazard Assessments (FHAs), Preliminary System Safety Assessments, System Safety Assessments, Fault Tree Analyses , Common Mode Analyses and turn them into actionable engineering requirements.
  • Review design and development documentation for safety critical evaluation.
  • Develop allocations and guide software/hardware teams on DO-178C and DO-254 impacts.
  • Partner directly with flight test, avionics, autonomy, mechanical, electrical engineering teams to embed safety into early designs.
  • Identify safety-critical gaps early and propose pragmatic, cert-compliant mitigations.
  • Support internal safety reviews including safety review board and cross-team alignment.

What You Bring

  • Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in aerospace/mechanical/electrical engineering
  • Performed system safety assessments and analyses in accordance with ARP4761, ARP4754A, MIL-STD-882E, including but not limited to FHAs, PSSAs, SSAs, FTAs, CMAs
  • 10+ years of experience leading compliance with CFR Part 25.1301, 25.1309 or equivalent in CFR Part 23/29 requirements working directly with the FAA and/or ODA on Type Certification projects. 

 

Bonus Points

  • FAA DER and/or E-UM Ticket in applicable Airworthiness Standards
  • Experience in end-to-end UAS development, from design through certification (experimental SAC/Part 107)
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