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Associate or Experienced Aerospace Systems Safety Engineer

The Boeing Company Berkeley, MO On-site mid full-time

Salary

$88,400–$144,900 per year

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Description

The Boeing Defense Air Dominance Division Systems Safety & Mission Assurance organization is looking for an Aircraft Safety Engineer to join our US Navy Unmanned MQ-25 Stingray program.

As an aircraft safety engineer, you will be responsible for working closely with other engineering disciplines to assess aircraft hardware/software/firmware design to identify all potential safety hazards and propose solutions to reduce or eliminate hazards to ensure product safety and customer mission success.

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Participate in research and analysis to identify potential or reported manufacturing issues and safety concerns
  • Support identifying safety and mission assurance issue systemic root causes and recommend corrective actions
  • Define and validate safety, mission success, and airworthiness
  • Participate in tests, analyses, inspections, audits, and simulations to verify system meets defined safety and mission assurance requirements
  • Assist with creating and maintaining aerospace safety and mission assurance tools and processes

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology, Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry or non-US equivalent qualifications
  • Associate (Level 2): 2+ years of experience working in an engineering, engineering technology, or related technical discipline

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Level 3: 5+ years of experience working in an engineering, engineering technology, or related technical discipline
  • 3+ years of experience working with safety analyses such as Risk Assessments, Functional Hazard Assessments (FHA), Fault-tree Analysis (FTA)
  • 3+ years of experience with the design and technical development of hardware, firmware or software for Military, Space, or Commercial airplane systems

Pay & Benefits:

  • Competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities
  • Eligible employees can enroll in a variety of benefit programs, including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs

Salary Range:

  • Associate (Level 2): $88,400 - $119,600
  • Experienced (Level 3): $107,100 - $144,900

Skills

Required

  • MIL-STD 882
  • JSSSEH
  • DO-178/DO-254
  • Risk Assessments
  • Functional Hazard Assessments (FHA)
  • Fault-tree Analysis (FTA)

Nice to have

  • hardware
  • software
  • firmware
  • Military
  • Space
  • Commercial airplane systems
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