# (Senior) Systems Safety Engineer - Land

**Company**: Helsing
**Location**: Munich
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Aerospace & Defence

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## Description

## Job Overview

As a (Senior) System Safety Engineer at Helsing, you will define, implement, and execute a comprehensive System Safety and Functional Safety program for advanced AI-driven defense software and hardware platforms.

## Responsibilities

- Safety Program Execution: Establish, implement, and maintain the System Safety Program Plan (SSPP) in accordance with MIL-STD-882E tasks and methodologies.

- Functional Hazard & Risk Assessment: Lead and execute comprehensive system-level hazard analyses, including Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA), System Hazard Analysis (SHA), Subsystem Hazard Analysis (SSHA), and Operating and Support Hazard Analysis (O&SHA) per MIL-STD-882E.

- Functional Safety Engineering: Define Functional Safety Concepts (FSC) and Technical Safety Concepts (TSC). Identify safety-critical functions (SCF) and map software/hardware safety integrity levels to ensure robust fail-safe and fault-tolerant architectures.

- Safety Requirements Management: Derive, flow down, and manage software and hardware functional safety requirements. Ensure end-to-end traceability from hazard mitigation down to verification and validation (V&V) test cases using engineering tools.

- Safety Case Deliverables: Author and compile comprehensive Safety Assessment Reports (SAR), Hazard Logs, and Functional Safety Cases to demonstrate that risks have been mitigated.

- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as the primary safety point of contact for engineering teams. Guide developers, system architects, and test engineers on how to design-in safety, ensuring compliant software development lifecycles.

- Stakeholder & Audit Management: Present safety cases, hazard analyses, and risk-acceptance arguments to internal stakeholders, customers, and regulatory authorities. Support safety reviews, audits, and certification processes.

## Requirements

- Expertise in Military standard: Deep, hands-on experience applying MIL-STD-882E processes, tasks, and risk assessment matrices in a defense or aerospace environment.

- Expertise in Aviation standard: Deep, hands-on experience applying ARP4761A and ARP4754B (for programs requiring mixed military and civil-derived certifications).

- Functional Safety Principles: Strong understanding of functional safety standards and concepts (e.g., IEC 61508, ISO 26262) particularly regarding software-intensive systems, software safety critical indices, and hazard mitigation techniques.

- Systems Engineering & Requirements Traceability: Strong background in systems engineering, including experience capturing, decomposing, tracing, and verifying safety requirements using tools such as Jama Software, IBM DOORS, or similar.

- Analytical Tools & Methodologies: Proficiency in classical safety analysis techniques, including Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA/FMECA), and Functional Hazard Assessment (FHA).

- Communication & Influence: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a proven ability to translate complex safety concepts into clear, actionable design requirements for multidisciplinary engineering teams.

- Language Skills: Fluency in English is required; German is a strong asset.

## Nice to Have

- Experience in Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) or Model-Based Safety Analysis (MBSA).

- Experience in innovative safety methodologies or safety analysis disciplines (e.g., STPA, SOTIF).

## Benefits

- Competitive salary and VSOP options.

- Relocation support: up to €2,500 and 4 weeks temporary accommodation.

- Learning: €500/£450 yearly allowance.

- Health & wellness: gym membership and mental health support (Nilo.health).

- Social: regularly company events and monthly social allowances.

- Enhanced parental leave: 22 weeks fully paid for primary caregivers & 6 weeks for secondary caregivers.

- Family support: 5 days of paid family emergency leave, 100% remote work option during pregnancy and phased return to work.

## Skills

### Required
- MIL-STD-882E
- ARP4761A
- ARP4754B
- IEC 61508
- ISO 26262
- Jama Software
- IBM DOORS
- Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
- Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA/FMECA)
- Functional Hazard Assessment (FHA)

### Nice to have
- Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
- Model-Based Safety Analysis (MBSA)
- STPA
- SOTIF
- German

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