# Principal System Safety Engineer

**Company**: Anduril
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $253,000-$336,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## Job Overview

We are seeking a Principal System Safety Engineer to operate across the entire company. You will serve as a company-wide technical authority on system safety, setting the safety philosophy, risk acceptance posture, and analytical standards.

## Responsibilities

- Serve as a company-wide System Safety technical authority across all Anduril divisions

- Conduct independent, end-to-end safety assessments of any program at any lifecycle phase

- Deploy as a senior technical resource to programs across the portfolio

- Prepare programs and their engineering teams for formal government safety certification

- Shape Anduril's enterprise technical risk posture

- Pioneer analysis and verification approaches for emerging technology

- Negotiate safety acceptance criteria with customers and regulatory authorities

- Drive System Safety philosophy and requirements practice across the enterprise

- Grow Senior and Staff System Safety engineers into recognized experts

- Represent Anduril externally as a thought leader in industry working groups

## Requirements

- Minimum of 15 years of industry experience as a System Safety Engineer

- B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, or equivalent technical discipline

- Direct experience with government safety review boards

- Deep experience with safety-critical hardware and software systems in the defense or aerospace industry

- Expert-level knowledge of MIL-STD-882E

- Expert background in safety analysis techniques

- Failure investigation and analysis experience

- Extensive Design Review experience

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

- Excellent communication skills

- Willingness to travel

- Eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance

## Preferred Qualifications

- M.S. or Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, or equivalent technical discipline

- AI/ML and autonomy safety experience

- Experience with Relyence, Teamcenter, JIRA, JAMA, Cameo, and/or Ansys

## Benefits

- Competitive salary: $253,000-$336,000 USD per year

- Highly competitive equity grants

- Top-tier benefits for full-time employees

## Skills

### Required
- MIL-STD-882E
- System Safety Engineering
- safety-critical systems
- government safety review boards
- FTA
- FHA
- SCFTA
- FMECA

### Nice to have
- AI/ML
- autonomy safety
- Relyence
- Teamcenter
- JIRA
- JAMA
- Cameo
- Ansys

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