Sr Principal System Safety Engineer

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Melbourne, FL +1 · Environmental

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Sr Principal System Safety Engineer in Melbourne, FL. The role involves developing and evaluating product systems, associated support equipment, and facilities for safety requirements, assessing implementations for hazards, and collaborating with design teams. Responsibilities include analyzing safety criteria, preparing technical documentation for Airworthiness Certification, reviewing test plans, and performing System Safety Analysis per MIL-STD-882E. Requires a STEM Bachelor's degree with 9 years of experience (or Master's with 7) and the ability to obtain a DoD Secret clearance. Familiarity with system safety engineering principles, requirements development, and various analysis techniques is essential. Preferred qualifications include experience with specific requirements and safety tools, military systems safety standards, flight test engineering, and hardware/software integration.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop and evaluate product systems, associated support equipment, and facilities, functional specifications and operations, and establish safety requirements for assigned systems
  2. Develop requirements and designs, assess implementations for hazard and causal factors to satisfy critical system safety objectives
  3. Review architecture, requirements, and interface artifacts for safety on complex hardware/software systems
  4. Independently analyze and recommend safety criteria in system design, equipment, and procedures to control or eliminate hazards
  5. Collaborate with various design teams

Skills

Required

  • STEM Bachelor's Degree with 9 years of experience or Master's Degree with 7 years of experience
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance
  • System safety engineering principles
  • Preliminary hazard analyses
  • Function/system/subsystem hazard analyses
  • Fault tree analyses
  • Software system safety analyses
  • Safety assessment reports
  • Analyze, recommend, and drive safety into system design, equipment, and procedures to mitigate or eliminate hazards
  • Effective communication with all levels of leadership and customers
  • Work independently
  • Develop, review, update and approve system safety artifacts and system safety requirements
  • Familiar with requirements development
  • System/software architecture
  • Software design
  • Software code implementation
  • Test, verification, and validation
  • Understanding of requirements development
  • System/software architecture
  • Hardware/software design
  • Software code implementation
  • Test, verification, and validation

Nice to have

  • DOORS
  • Cameo
  • CPLM
  • PTC Windchill Quality Solutions
  • Agile software tools
  • JIRA
  • FISHEYE
  • Confluence
  • MIL-STD-882
  • DO-178B/C
  • DO-248
  • DO-254
  • ARP-4754
  • ARP-4761
  • MIL-HDBK-516C
  • Flight test engineering
  • Software systems integration engineering
  • Software test engineering
  • Detect and avoid systems
  • DO-365
  • Hardware/Software Integration
  • System Software Safety Experience
  • Military aviation

What the JD emphasized

  • DoD Secret clearance