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Sr. System Safety Engineer, Reliability

Anduril
Costa Mesa, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 7 Feb 2025
💰 $213,000/yr($143,000/yr$213,000/yr)

About the role

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

Anduril’s Reliability Engineering organization is seeking a Reliability Safety Engineer to join our team. The Reliability Engineering team works with our broader Engineering team to ensure our products operate and meet all mission performance, environmental conditions, and customer requirements. We develop cutting-edge Reliability processes and methods to secure scalable, long-term business success.As a System Safety Engineer on the Reliability Engineering team at Anduril, you will work within the organization to lead Functional Hazard Analysis, Fault Trees, Risk Management and Risk Mitigation activities, System Safety Assessments, and Hazard Management and Hazard Mitigation activities. You will support hardware and software development teams, Reliability Engineering, Systems Engineering, and controls teams. The right person for this role has knowledge of design and development with a safety focus on Missile systems, and test, analysis, manufacturing, operations, asset tracking and maintenance, and continuous improvement experience. If you are someone who has hands-on experience throughout the entire new product development life cycle from concept to customer delivery, loves to build world-class Reliability and Reliability Safety processes, work with many multi disciplinary teams, and be accountable for results, then this role is for you.   WHAT YOU'LL DO
This is a multi disciplinary system safety focused role on the Reliability Engineering team supporting Anduril Missile products.
  • Draft reports on Anduril’s System Safety Approach and support the System Safety Program Plan for Anduril.
  • Identify & Document Hazards, Risks, and Mitigation Measures for the program.
  • Support Design & Development Engineers as a critical partner in Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA) and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) exercises at system level, and sub-system level for complex missiles and ground systems.
  • Document, and manage all risks and hazards coming out of proactive Reliability Safety Exercises.
  • Lead and draft the Program System Safety Analysis Reports.
  • Support the Design Requirements Process as a Subject Matter Expert to ensure teams adhere to Safety best practices and triage proactive hazard mitigations with the team coming out of Reliability Safety Engineering exercises.
  • Lead, Draft, and tailor Built In Test Plans and Support Reliability Engineering on Qualification Test Plan Development for new products.
  • Support Development Milestone Reviews such as PDR, CDR, QDR representing Reliability Safety.
  • Lead and triage all Safety corrective actions from RCCA investigations.
  • Lead product End-To-End Plans from component receiving through field deployment: Identify risks, and coordinate risk mitigation with supporting stakeholder teams such as Manufacturing Engineering, Logistics, and Deployment Operations as it relates to Safety.
  • Host regular corrective action reviews to ensure lessons learned are communicated with all stakeholders, and that all actions have been implemented in a timely manner.
  • Develop, Draft, and Implement Reliability Safety Processes and reports for the business to improve and streamline our Design, Manufacturing, and Deployment Operations efforts for rapid development.
  • Support Business Operations Continuous Improvement: Software Tool Upgrade Requirements Drafting, and Beta Testing to improve risk and hazard tracking and management.
  • Verify and Validate Risk and Hazard Reduction Measures.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • Minimum of 5 years Industry Experience as a Safety Engineer or equivalent engineering background
  • B.S. Degree in Mechanical Engineering or Physics
  • Experience working on Advanced Hardware and Mechanical Systems
  • Experience with MIL-STD-882 or comparable
  • Requirements decomposition experience for Safety
  • Test Plan Requirements experience for Safety
  • Failure Investigation experience with proven track record of solving problems and preventing reoccurrence
  • Fault Tree Analysis Experience (FTA)
  • Functional Hazard Analysis Experience (FHA)
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