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Software Safety Engineer / Principal Software Safety Engineer
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation · 🌍 United States-Florida-Melbourne
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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 Software System Safety Engineer (Level 2 or 3) to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. The position will be located in Melbourne, Florida. 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 outlined in the Joint Software System Safety Engineering Handbook (JSSSEH). • Evaluates complex aviation systems and software designs, design requirements, support equipment, facilities, and operations to identify hazards and respective causal factors, categorize risk, establish safety requirements for assigned systems, and determine mitigating controls to reduce risk. • Independently analyzes and recommends safety criteria in system design, equipment, and procedures to control or eliminate hazards. • Collaborates 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 safety analyses in accordance with MIL-STD-882 and software safety analyses (Experience in AGILE development) in accordance with the JSSSEH. • Ability to effectively communicate with all levels of leadership and customers and work independently • Ability to analyze, recommend, and drive safety into system design, equipment, and procedures to mitigate or eliminate hazards • Must have an understanding of requirements development, system/software architecture, hardware/software design, software code implementation, test, verification, and validation • Ability to develop, review, update and approve system safety artifacts and system safety requirements Basic Qualifications: • System SW 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 SW 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 Acces