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Northrop Grumman · 1 day ago

Principal/Senior Principal Software System Safety Engineer - R10218270

Melbourne, FL

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$98K/yr - $148K/yr

3+ years exp

Northrop Grumman is a leading aerospace and defense company seeking a Principal/Senior Principal Software System Safety Engineer to join their team in Melbourne, FL. The role involves applying safety engineering methodologies, evaluating product systems for safety criteria, and collaborating with design teams to ensure compliance with safety standards.

AerospaceData IntegrationManufacturingRemote SensingSecurity

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Apply knowledge, methodologies, and principles of safety engineering as defined in MIL-STD-882E and Software Safety engineering as defined in the Joint Software System Safety Engineering Handbook (JSSSEH)

Evaluate product systems, associated support equipment, functional specifications and operations to establish safety criteria for assigned systems

Independently analyze system design, equipment, and procedures for hazards and categorize hazard risks in accordance with MIL_STD-882E

Assess implementations for hazard and causal factors to satisfy critical system safety objectives

Collaborate with various design teams in the execution of various MIL-STD-882E hazard analyses

Review and prepare engineering and technical analyses, reports, change proposals, and other technical documentation for system safety and in support of Airworthiness Certification IAW MIL-HDBK-516

Review Test Plans and Procedures for safety requirements verification and potential hazardous operations

Perform hardware/ software safety analyses (Experience in AGILE development)

Qualification

Safety engineeringMIL-STD-882ESoftware safety engineeringHazard analysisRequirements toolsSystem safety principlesMilitary systems safetyAnalytical skillsCollaborationCommunication skillsProblem-solving

Required

Principal Software System Safety Engineer: Bachelor of science degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline with 5 years of military/professional experience OR Master's Degree in a STEM discipline with 3 years of military/professional experience OR a PhD in a STEM discipline with 1 year of military/professional experience

Senior Principal Software System Safety Engineer: Bachelor of science degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math (STEM) discipline with 8 years of military/professional experience OR Master of Science degree in a STEM discipline with 6 years of military/professional experience or a PhD is a STEM discipline and 4 years of military/professional experience

Must have a DoD Secret clearance to apply with the ability to obtain and maintain an interim Top Secret prior to starting. Must be able to obtain Top Secret clearance within a reasonable amount of time as determined by business needs

Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance

Preferred

Bachelor of Science in Engineering or Computer engineering

Active Top Secret clearance

Familiarity with requirements tools such as DOORS, Cameo, CPLM, Safety and Reliability tools such as PTC Windchill Quality Solutions, Agile software tools, JIRA, FISHEYE and/or Confluence

Demonstrated ability to analyze, recommend, and drive safety into system design, equipment, and procedures in order to mitigate or eliminate hazards

Ability to apply system safety engineering principles in accordance with MIL-STD-882 and perform analyses such as preliminary hazard analyses, function/system/subsystem hazard analyses, fault tree analyses, software system safety analyses and safety assessment reports

Experienced in requirements development, system/software architecture, hardware/software design, software code implementation, test, verification, and validation

Demonstrated ability to develop, review, update and approve system safety artifacts and system safety requirements

Strong working knowledge of Military systems safety and process standards and their Industry equivalent such as: MIL-STD-882, DO-178B/C, DO-248, DO-254, ARP-4754, ARP-4761, MIL-HDBK-516C, etc

Experience in Hardware/Software Integration

Experience in military aviation