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System Safety Engineer / Principal System Safety Engineer
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation · 🇺🇸 United States-California-Palmdale
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About the role
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time Description At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history. Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Principal System Safety Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. The position will be located in Palmdale, CA The successful candidate will be collaborative, open, transparent, and team-oriented with a focus on team empowerment & shared responsibility, flexibility, continuous learning, work product ownership, and a culture of automation. Essential Responsibilities: • Applies knowledge, methodologies, and principles of safety engineering as defined in MIL-STD-882 and Software Safety engineering as defined in the Joint Software System Safety Engineering Handbook (JSSSEH) • Develops and evaluates product systems, associated support equipment, and facilities, functional specifications and operations, and establishes safety requirements for assigned systems • Develops requirements and designs, assess implementations for hazard and causal factors to satisfy critical system safety objectives • Reviews architecture, requirements, and interface artifacts for safety on complex hardware/software systems • Independently analyzes and recommends safety criteria in system design, equipment, and procedures to control or eliminate hazards • Collaborate with various design teams in the execution of various MIL-STD-882E hazard analyses • Reviews and prepares engineering and technical analyses, reports, change proposals, and other technical documentation for system safety and in support of Airworthiness Certification IAW MIL-HDBK-516 • Reviews Test Plans and Procedures for safety requirements verification and potential hazardous operations • Perform software safety analysis (Experience in AGILE development) • Ability to effectively communicate with all levels of leadership and customers and work independently • Able to work non-standard hours and multiple shifts on a part-time basis. Overtime, odd shifts, and weekend work will occasionally be required. Basic Qualifications: • System Safety Engineer : Bachelor of science Degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and 2 years of experience, or a Master of science Degree in a STEM discipline • Principal System Safety Engineer : Bachelor of science Degree in STEM a discipline and 5 years of experience, or a Master of science Degree in a STEM discipline with 3 years of experience. • Must have an active US Government Secret clearance or higher (with a background investigation completed within the last 6 years or currently enrolled into Continuous Evaluation) • Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance. • Must have experience with MIL-STD-882 • Must have experience with analyses like preliminary hazard analyses, function/system/subsystem hazard analyses, fault tree analyses, software system safety analyses and/or safety a