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Role Description

As a Systems Safety Engineer at Reliable Robotics, you will be a part of the Systems & Safety team and will report to the Systems & Safety Manager. The Systems & Safety Team is responsible for architecting systems which support novel safety-critical functions, establishing development methodologies for new technologies, and comply with the federal regulations.

Your professional experience in aircraft and system safety will further strengthen the team's ability to meet rigorous expectations of stakeholders and certification authorities. You will collaborate with members from other groups within Reliable Robotics to ensure the safety of new and novel systems necessary for unmanned aircraft operations.

In your role as a Systems Safety Engineer you will contribute to the development and architectural design supporting the delivery of prototypes and certifiable safety-critical flight systems in a dynamic start-up work environment. You will have these responsibilities:

• Apply systems safety methodologies as defined by industry standards
• Develop new processes / methodologies used to certify autonomous / remote operations
• Perform safety activities in coordination with design, development and verification of aviation systems including:
  • Generate safety artifacts such as FHAs & Safety Assessments for aircraft, systems and equipment
  • Generate reliability or testability assessments to support safety activities
  • Validate safety requirements in collaboration with systems teams
  • Ensure consistency between the safety activities and development activities
• Support flight operations with safety of flight assessments for experimental operations

You’ll also have the opportunity to interact with other domains within Reliable Robotics and become involved in a broad task spectrum not limited to typical system safety engineering activities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree of Science or Engineering in Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, or related discipline
• Broad experience from 10+ years of safety engineering on various systems, including complex safety-critical aerospace systems
• Demonstrated self-starter with the ability to solve problems from first principles
• Ability to work well independently and cross-functionally across multiple organizations

Requirements

• Advanced Degree of Science or Engineering in Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, or related discipline (preferred)
• Creative problem solver that can bring multiple disciplines together with the ability to assess risk and make design and development decisions without all available data (preferred)
• Experience certifying flight critical systems, hardware, and software via ARP4754A, ARP4761 (preferred)
• Demonstrated ability to obtain regulatory acceptance of safety documents (preferred)

Benefits

This role can be remote, or located at our facility in Mountain View, California. Must be willing to travel up to 10% of the time.

Company Description

At Reliable Robotics, our goal is to be a diverse and inclusive workforce. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, creed, ancestry, sex, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability or medical conditions, national origin, military or veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any other basis covered by applicable law. All employment and promotion is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

If you require reasonable accommodation in completing an application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to work@reliable.co.