longwall - Safety & Mission Assurance Engineer (remote considered)
Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Reliability Engineering, or related technical discipline. • 5+ years of experience in aerospace, defense, or complex hardware development focusing on reliability, safety, mission assurance, or test readiness. • Experience supporting structured readiness reviews, reliability analyses, hazard assessments, or risk management activities. • Strong understanding of reliability engineering, safety analysis, verification planning, and risk management for flight critical systems. • Ability to evaluate technical maturity, configuration stability, and readiness for integration, test, and flight. • Experience contributing to hazard analyses, fault tree analyses, FMEA, or similar structured safety processes. • Ability to work independently while partnering closely with engineering, test, quality, and program management leadership. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills to deliver clear, defensible assessments to engineering teams, leadership, and government customers. • Strong organizational discipline and ability to maintain clarity across multiple verification flows and risk items. • Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in fast paced aerospace or defense environments with shifting priorities and rapid development cycles. • Experience supporting missile, interceptor, launch vehicle, or military system development. • Familiarity with government customers, test readiness processes, and structured milestone reviews. • Knowledge of reliability tools, safety analyses, configuration control systems, and mission readiness frameworks. • Experience working with manufacturing quality, supplier assurance, or environmental test operations. • Active or recent U.S. security clearance (Secret or above). • Ability to sit or stand for extended periods. • Ability to use a computer for assignments and communicate effectively in person, telepresence, and phone. • Ability to travel between customer and company sites as required • ITAR Requirement • This position requires access to information protected under US export control laws, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations and/or the Export Administration Regulations. As such, US person status (including US citizens, U.S. permanent residents, individuals granted U.S. asylum status, or individuals admitted in U.S. refugee status) is a required qualification for this position.
Responsibilities
• Lead reliability and safety evaluations, supporting hazard analyses, risk assessments, and mitigation planning. • Develop, maintain, and execute mission assurance processes for programs, including reliability expectations, configuration compliance checks, and readiness criteria. • Support system level readiness reviews: design reviews, integration reviews, test readiness reviews (TRR), and flight readiness reviews (FRR). • Provide independent evaluation of technical maturity, configuration stability, and verification completeness prior to major test campaigns. • Partner with systems engineering to ensure requirements, verification plans, and architecture support mission assurance and safety expectations. • Coordinate with chief engineering to evaluate the technical impact of design changes, ensuring reliability and safety implications are understood and documented. • Track program wide risks through the company risk register; lead risk boards and drive structured risk communication across engineering and program management. • Validate that test plans, procedures, and configurations meet safety, hazard mitigation, and readiness requirements for government funded activities. • Evaluate supplier quality and reliability risks; support supplier assessments for hardware impacting programs. • Learn from previous flight and integration attempts, ensuring technical lessons are documented and incorporated into future designs, processes, and readiness criteria. • Support environmental and manufacturing test activities by ensuring configuration stability, verification alignment, and risk awareness. • Maintain independent oversight while integrating closely with engineering, manufacturing, program management, quality, and operations.
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