# Staff Engineer, Safety - X-BAT (R5312)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: Dallas, Texas
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD 140,000-210,000 per-year-salary
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Safety Engineer for the X-BAT program will support the development, integration, and verification of system-level safety requirements for this revolutionary next-generation platform.

You will collaborate closely with the System-Safety /Airworthiness Lead, Systems Engineering, and technical Responsible Engineers to maintain the safety baseline and Hazard Tracking System for X-BAT.

Responsibilities:

- Work with System-Safety / Airworthiness Lead to derive, refine, and validate safety requirements for the X-BAT platform and support systems.

- Apply system safety engineering methods to analyze subsystems, interfaces, and integrated architectures, identifying hazards and mitigation strategies.

- Guide engineering teams in allocating safety requirements and verifying mitigation effectiveness.

- Support development of the safety case and certification evidence for X-BAT.

- Partner with cybersecurity specialists to develop and validate cybersecurity related safety requirements.

- Collaborate with Systems Engineering to audit, refine, and assure the X-BAT Hazard Tracking System, ensuring accuracy, traceability, and closure of hazards.

- Assist in creating, reviewing, and maintaining airworthiness and technical safety documentation for X-BAT.

- Support mishap and near miss investigations for the X-BAT platform, providing technical system-level context.

- Participate in design reviews, safety working groups, and change boards to ensure safety considerations are integrated early in the design lifecycle.

- Contribute to risk assessments and support readiness reviews for test, integration, and operational events.

- Direct engagement with Customer and DoD System Safety representatives and alignment of systems, expectations and analysis.

Required qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in engineering (systems, aerospace, electrical, mechanical, or related field).

- 5–8+ years of experience in system safety, airworthiness, or mission-critical system engineering.

- Experience generating or maintaining hazard logs (HTS/Hazard Tracking Systems).

- Working knowledge of system safety processes and hazard analysis tools.

- Familiarity with requirements management and hazard tracking systems.

- Strong analytical and technical communication skills.

- Ability to collaborate closely with multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Preferred qualifications:

- Prior experience with UAS or autonomous aircraft platforms.

- Experience with MIL-STD-882, ARP-4761, STANAG safety frameworks, or similar.

- Familiarity with cybersecurity requirements for safety-critical systems.

- Experience generating or maintaining hazard logs (HTS/Hazard Tracking Systems).

- Experience working in fast-paced development or prototyping environments.

## Skills

### Required
- system safety engineering
- hazard analysis
- safety requirements
- airworthiness
- cybersecurity

### Nice to have
- UAS or autonomous aircraft platforms
- MIL-STD-882
- ARP-4761
- STANAG safety frameworks
- cybersecurity requirements

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