Systems Safety Engineer, Command & Control (C2)

What you'll do

• Own end-to-end systems safety for C2 software and its interfaces with sensors, effectors, and autonomous platforms.
• Lead safety requirements gathering, decomposition, and traceability to translate government-level requirements into subsystem specifications.
• Architect and execute performance-characterization campaigns for safety-critical software behaviors using simulated and field-testing data.
• Conduct and document formal safety analyses including FHA, FTA, FMEA/FMECA, PHA, SSA, and CCA.
• Quantify software-driven performance metrics like false-track rates and latency to develop risk assessments and mitigation strategies.
• Validate compliance with government requirements by authoring certification artifacts and representing the company at safety review boards.
• Develop test plans, acceptance criteria, and modeling frameworks to evaluate system safety under nominal and adversarial scenarios.
• Integrate safety disciplines directly into the development lifecycle alongside algorithm and software engineering teams.

What we're looking for

• 5+ years of experience in systems safety, systems engineering, or safety-critical software engineering.
• Degree in Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Demonstrated application of MIL-STD-882 (preferably 882E) across a defense program lifecycle.
• Hands-on experience performing Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and at least two of: FHA, FMEA/FMECA, PHA, SSA, or CCA.
• Proficiency in requirements engineering including decomposition, traceability, and verification/validation.
• Proficiency with Python (and/or MATLAB) for data parsing, modeling, simulation, and visualization.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States.
• Experience applying MIL-STD-882 to software-intensive or AI/ML-enabled systems (preferred).