# System Safety Engineer

**Company**: American Honda Motor Company
**Location**: Greensboro, North Carolina
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4744011

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## Description

## Job Purpose

The System Safety Engineer role involves serving as the technical lead for establishing, executing, and overseeing the comprehensive system safety program to ensure compliance with FAA Part 23 airworthiness standards.

## Key Accountabilities

- Technical Expert, System Safety Engineering & Certification: Plan, perform, and approve aircraft- and system-level safety assessments, develop and release safety requirements, analysis data, and compliance evidence.

- Design Integration and Milestone Management: Partner with systems, human factors, hardware, software, test, certification, flight-test, and customer service teams to shape architectures and incorporate hazard mitigations early in development.

- Team Leadership and Capability Development: Mentor system safety engineers, provide independent technical review, and help strengthen common methods, templates, tools, and analysis quality across the team.

## Qualifications, Experience, and Skills

- Minimum Educational Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a closely related technical discipline.

- Minimum Experience: 5 years of direct experience in System Safety Engineering, preferably within the aerospace industry.

- Other Job-Specific Skills:

- Aerospace Systems/Safety Standards: Comprehensive expertise applying SAE ARP4754A/B and ARP4761/A methodologies to civil aircraft programs.

- Systems Engineering Integration: Deep experience flowing safety metrics down to engineering requirements and managing V&V (Validation & Verification) baselines.

- Human Factors Integration: Strong background collaborating with HFE teams on human performance models, cockpit alert mechanics, and crew error mitigations.

- Hardware & Software Assurance: Working knowledge of DO-178C and DO-254 design assurance workflows, including defining FDAL/IDAL metrics.

- Supplier Governance: Experience auditing and validating safety artifacts provided by suppliers.

## Key Performance Indicators

- Safety deliverable quality and schedule performance: On-time completion of planned analyses and reviews when needed, with minimal rework and clear closure of review findings.

- Hazard and requirement maturity: Identify material hazards early, define effective mitigations, and maintain complete traceability through verification and certification evidence.

- Certification and supplier closure: Resolve safety-related authority and supplier comments within program commitments and prevent unresolved safety issues from delaying major milestones.

- Technical leadership: Improve analysis consistency and team capability through high-quality reviews, mentoring, and reusable methods or tools.

## Working Conditions

- Occasionally incumbents may be exposed to equipment operational noise, heat, cold, dust, and/or aircraft equipment, parts, or fuel odors.

- Occasionally incumbents may be required to stand, sit, squat, walk, bend, climb ladders, move, reach, or stretch for prolonged time periods with no restrictions, as required by job duties.

## Skills

### Required
- Aerospace Systems/Safety Standards
- Systems Engineering Integration
- Human Factors Integration
- Hardware & Software Assurance
- Supplier Governance
- Safety Analysis Methodologies
- Safety & Reliability Software
- Requirements Management Systems
- MBSE Frameworks
- Simulation Testing

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