Senior System Safety Engineer

Overview

Application close date:
Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.

At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We are developing reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!

This role is part of Blue Origin Operations, which is comprised of Integrated Supply Chain, Test Operations, Safety, Quality, and Mission Assurance, including Manufacturing and Supply Chain support across all Blue Origin facilities. It is part of the Safety, Quality and Mission Assurance organization, focused on defining, monitoring and assessing processes that guide design, manufacturing, and operations to ensure system safety engineering, reliability, environmental health and safety, product integrity, and certification.

You will work as a Senior System Safety Engineer on space vehicles and in-space systems, collaborating with systems engineering teams to define and verify safety and reliability requirements.

You will help engineers identify opportunities for design improvements, minimize risk to people and property, and increase the probability of mission success. You will lead, perform and coordinate safety analyses to identify hazards, causes, controls, mitigations, and risk characterization, and you will work with responsible engineers, program management, and customers to support human spaceflight goals.

We are looking for someone to apply technical expertise, leadership skills, and a commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is a must.

Special Mentions:

• Relocation provided
• Travel expected up to 20% of the time

• Perform and lead engineering activities including Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Preliminary Hazard Assessment (PHA), Functional Hazard Assessment (FHA), Hazard Reports, Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analyses (FMECA), reliability analysis, and developing mitigation plans
• Develop plans and coordinate completion of system and subsystem safety analysis, providing review, guidance, and expertise of safety analysis products
• Ensure traceability between system and subsystem functions, requirements, and safety artifacts
• Support verification and validation of safety and reliability requirements
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to other engineers across the program and company
• Collaborate across systems to develop best practices and find opportunities for common processes across programs

• B.S. degree in aerospace engineering, systems engineering, or related field
• 8+ years of System Safety or Systems Engineering experience performing activities such as requirements definition, requirements traceability, functional decomposition, integration, verification, and validation
• In-depth experience with performing safety analyses on safety critical systems including: FTA, PHA, FHA, Hazard Reports, FMECA, reliability analysis, and mitigation plans
• Ability to lead and coordinate safety analysis products across stakeholders and experts from varying engineering fields to produce safety and reliability products
• Strong safety and mission assurance fundamentals
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal skills, and ability to communicate technical information effectively

• Experience performing system safety and/or reliability analyses on satellites or human-rated in-space systems
• Experience performing compliance assessment of system safety processes and products against external standards including Range Safety, NASA, FAA, MIL-STD-882, or ARP-4761
• Experience with certification of human-rated space systems
• Process ownership and maintenance experience
• Note:
  
  If you do not meet every single requirement, you are encouraged to apply anyway. You may be the right candidate for this or other roles.

Compensation Range: WA applicants is $ - $. Other site ranges may differ.

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