Aerospace Safety Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead and perform safety analyses in accordance with ARP4671, including Functional Hazard Assessments (FHA), Human Factors (HF), System-Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA), Common Cause Analysis (CCA), Failure Modes & Effects Analysis (FMEA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Preliminary System Safety Assessments (PSSA), and System Safety Assessments (SSA).
• Develop and maintain the Safety Program Plan and ensure compliance with FAA/EASA certification requirements.
• Work closely with Systems Engineering to ensure that safety requirements and verification methods are defined, allocated, and traceable.
• Translate STPA-derived safety constraints and loss scenarios into system requirements, verification activities, and certification evidence that remain traceable through the safety lifecycle.
• Identify and evaluate potential hazards in aircraft systems and operations, ensuring risks are properly classified and mitigated.
• Apply STPA methods to identify unsafe control actions, causal scenarios, control-loop issues, and safety constraints across aircraft systems, operational procedures, and human-machine interfaces.
• Coordinate with flight test and design engineers to validate safety-critical requirements through analytical methods, simulation, and test evidence.
• Prepare and manage compliance evidence for certification authorities, ensuring safety documentation supports the Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) process, to include the drafting and owning of Issue Papers per AC 20-166A.
• Support design reviews, safety boards, and certification audits, presenting safety analyses and hazard mitigations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate DO-178C, DO-254, and DO-160 considerations into future developments.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related field.
• Proven experience conducting safety assessments aligned with ARP4671 and related certification standards, with working knowledge of STPA or system-theoretic hazard analysis methods.
• Strong background in system safety processes (FHA, PSSA, SSA, STPA, FMEA, FTA), including both traditional reliability-based analyses and control-structure-based hazard analysis.
• Ability to develop and review STPA artifacts, including loss definitions, hazards, control structures, unsafe control actions, causal scenarios, and derived safety constraints.
• Familiarity with regulatory guidance including 14 CFR Part 23/25, ARP4754A, ARP4761.
• Ability to develop safety-related documentation, including evidence matrices for certification.
• Strong analytical, communication, and organizational skills to support high-stakes certification programs.