Our client, a leading federal defense contractor is seeking a Senior Safety Systems Engineer for their Torpedo Systems Group. You will be responsible for the identification, classification, and mitigation of safety hazards as part of the overall Systems Engineering (SE) process. This includes requirements analysis, requirements definition, requirements management, functional analysis, performance analysis, and test (verification), validation and interface definition studies of system, subsystem or system elements with little or no supervision.

Additionally your focus will be on personnel safety of those operating the system. You will work with Program Management, technical leadership and the customer to make critical decisions on architecture, design, and technology choices as it pertains to safety significant solutioning.

The Senior Safety Systems Engineer role will also include the following adjunct responsibilities:

- Support the set-up, configuration, and documentation of hardware and software systems under test, including loading software onto multiple devices.
- Support design, development, and implementation of cost-effective procedures for testing and troubleshooting of components, sub-assemblies, assemblies, and systems.
- Support development of test plans, test procedures, requirements traceability, test reports, test flow, and test case design and implementation
- Document testing issues and failures and perform analysis of test results.
- Support formal systems acceptance testing activities.

Required Skills

- Must be US Citizen due to government requirement
- Must be able and willing to obtain a DoD Secret Clearance
- Requires a Bachelor's degree in STEM field and 8+ years of job-related experience or a Master's degree and a minimum of 6 years of relevant experience.
- Experience in the adoption of system safety practices as defined by MIL-STD-882E, JSSSEH, AOP-52, JOTP-51, MIL-HDBK-2155, T9070-AL-DPC-020/077-2 standards and handbooks.
- Demonstrated strong strategic and architectural vision.
- Proven background designing and maintaining systems with safety significant requirements.
- Excellent problem-solving and system-thinking abilities.
Demonstrated leadership skills on complex programs with multi-disciplinary engineering teams, push technological boundaries, lead complex projects, and mentor teams.
- Demonstrated technical excellence in systems engineering.- You are viewed as a technical lead on safety across the Torpedo business.
- Demonstrated use and understanding of systems engineering strategies, principles, and measures.
- Ability to present test strategies, plans, and results to internal and external customers and negotiate direction.
- Experience in preparation of cost and schedule estimates for design tasks.
- Demonstrated system, hardware, and software integration experience.
- Demonstrated technical excellence in engineering solutions to DoD customer requirements.