Experienced or Senior System Safety Engineer

Overview

Boeing Defense, Space & Security is hiring a System Safety Engineer in Houston, TX, at the Experienced (Level 3) or Senior (Level 4) level. The role works with the program safety team to ensure ISS systems for docking and robotic-captured vehicles are safe for flight crew and on-orbit ISS crew.

What you'll do

• Lead risk-based hazard analyses at a system level, identify control and mitigation strategies, and write and flow down safety requirements.
• Review vehicle-level and ISS concept of operations, system architecture, and system design from a safety perspective, and collaborate on software, hardware, and operations designs to meet NASA requirements.
• Perform safety analysis, develop and maintain safety documentation, and support safety panel reviews for ISS Payloads and Systems Integration.
• Identify and quantify safety risks and assure compliance with all NASA safety requirements.
• Provide detailed hazard reports and recommendations for risk mitigation strategies.
• Prepare and present technical presentations to NASA and Boeing safety boards and panels, and participate in Safety Panel Reviews.
• Review flight documents, operational scenarios, and subsequent changes for safety impact; participate in technical interchange meetings and working groups as required.
• Provide real-time and post-flight engineering support for flight anomaly investigations.
• Work with NASA, Space Station contractors, and International Partners.
• Collaborate with reliability engineers to produce reliability assessments, including Fault Tree Analysis (FTAs) and Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEAs).
• Develop test plans to verify safety requirements and validate fault handling capabilities.
• Collaborate with subsystem engineers to flow safety requirements to suppliers and oversee compliance.
• Collaborate with NASA subject matter experts to ensure hazard analyses, safety requirements, and fault management strategy meet NASA contract requirements.
• Prepare safety reports for NASA, including Integrated Hazard Reports, Non-Compliance Reports (NCRs), Verification Tracking reports, and Operating and Support Hazard Analyses.
• Lead Safety Reviews to describe and explain the safety approach to internal and external review boards.
• Exhibit moral and interpersonal courage to speak up when safety deficiencies are identified.

What you'll need

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology (including Manufacturing Technology), Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, or non-US equivalent qualifications directly related to the work statement.
• Level 3: 5+ years of experience in an engineering discipline.
• Experience writing hazard reports.
• Experience presenting hazard reports to customer boards and/or review panels.

Nice to have

• Level 4: 9+ years of experience in an engineering discipline.
• 5+ years or more experience writing hazard reports.
• 5+ years or more experience presenting hazard reports to customer boards and/or review panels.
• 4+ years of experience with spacecraft, payloads, ground systems, and/or space mission systems.
• Experience applying systems engineering principles during the development of complex hardware/software solutions on an aerospace platform.
• Experience developing cross functional processes, creating and managing engineering deliverables (i.e. Engineering / Manufacturing, Engineering / Supply Chain, Engineering / Program Management, Engineering / Quality, etc.).
• Experience working with Non-conformance (NCR) processes.
• Experience interfacing with NASA safety boards and panels.

Details

• Location: Houston, TX, USA.
• Shift: Shift 1 (United States of America).
• Pay range: Experienced (Level 3) $114,750 - $155,250; Senior (Level 4) $141,100 - $190,900. Pay is based on experience, qualifications, and market and business considerations.
• Relocation assistance is not negotiable for this position.
• Export control: must meet U.S. export control compliance requirements, so a U.S. Person as defined by 22 C.F.R. §120.62 is required.
• Not a Safety Sensitive position. No Security Clearance required. Not contingent upon program award.
• Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.
• Drug Free Workplace: post-offer applicants and employees are subject to testing when criteria is met.