# Staff Engineer, Systems Safety

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: San Diego
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $140,000 - $210,000 a year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/1e53409e-18ef-44b1-88e0-c90a5551f6cf
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_ad998f02-52b

## Description

This hands-on and highly collaborative role requires experience with safety-critical software systems and familiarity with airborne software safety processes. As a safety authority across the Hivemind platform team, you will ensure that safety considerations are built into architecture decisions, requirements, code, and verification strategies from the outset.

Key responsibilities include:

- Deriving and authoring safety requirements from system-level hazard analyses, functional hazard assessments, and customer/regulatory safety objectives.
- Translating safety requirements into clear, testable software requirements aligned with the appropriate Design Assurance Level (DAL) or software criticality classification.
- Maintaining bidirectional traceability from safety requirements through design, implementation, and verification.
- Collaborating with QA and test teams to define verification strategies, review test cases for safety coverage, and confirm that safety requirements are demonstrably satisfied prior to release.
- Authoring clear, well-structured safety documentation and contributing to system models (SysML/MBSE) with a safety lens.
- Leading and supporting safety analysis activities, including Functional Hazard Assessments (FHA), Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), and Failure Mode and Effects Summary (FMES).

The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree with approximately 7+ years of relevant experience, or a Master's degree with approximately 5+ years of relevant experience, in Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, or a closely related technical field.

## Skills

### Required
- safety-critical software systems
- airborne software safety processes
- DO-178C
- MIL-HDBK-516C
- ARP4754A
- ARP4761
- requirements management tools
- CI/CD
- automated testing
- configuration management
- software lifecycle processes

### Nice to have
- MBSE practices
- system modeling tools
- autonomy or robotic software systems
- safety data management
- CI/CD pipelines
- automated test frameworks
- build systems