System Safety Engineer, Land Systems

$124,000 - $231,000/Yr

Anduril Industries - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Mid Level

Seattle, WA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The System Safety Engineer role at Anduril Industries focuses on ensuring the safety of land-based crewed and robotic ground systems. This position involves leading the development of a model-based safety case, conducting thorough safety analyses, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to meet stringent safety requirements throughout the product lifecycle. The engineer will play a critical role in transforming innovative designs into operational systems while maintaining the highest safety standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of a model-based safety case for an uncrewed ground combat system with autonomous mobility functions.
• Own the end-to-end safety analysis process evaluating a system from functional hazard analysis (FHA) to the lowest level of the fault tree analysis (FTA).
• Design a fault management system to establish fault tolerant behavior ensuring fault containment regions and system resilience.
• Generate safety requirements to ensure the system is designed to meet our safety case and safety goals.
• Conduct safety testing, simulations, and fault modeling to understand system behavior and breaking points under heavy load, and engineer solutions to enable the system to degrade gracefully.
• Identify and document risks throughout the product lifecycle, coordinate risk mitigation with supporting stakeholders, and verify and validate risk or hazard mitigation measures.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years industry experience as a safety engineer, systems engineer or equivalent engineering background.
• B.S. Degree in electrical engineering, computer science or a related technical discipline.
• Experience with electrical, electromechanical and software-intensive systems preferred.
• Experience with ISO 26262, MIL-STD-882, ARP4754, ARP4761, or a similar commercial standard.
• Experience designing safety critical systems and architecting fault management systems.
• Experience conducting both deductive and inductive safety analyses, such as fault tree analysis (FTA); functional hazard assessments (FHA), failure modes, effects, and criticality analysis (FMECA); probabilistic risk assessment (PRA); root cause assessment (RCA); Hazard and Operability Study (HAZOP); or goal function tree, especially in a model-based environment.
• Experience developing testable system and software safety requirements.
• U.S. Person Status is required as this position needs to access export-controlled data.
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret clearance.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience developing autonomous vehicles, advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) functionality, or other complex robotic systems.
• Experience developing and maintaining a safety case in accordance with UL 4600 or equivalent, especially in a model-based environment.
• Failure investigation experience with proven track record of solving problems and preventing reoccurrence.
• Familiarity with industry autonomy standards including ISO 21448 and UL 4600.
• Experience with a scripting language such as Python, MATLAB, or Julia, especially to conduct safety analyses, risk assessments, or verification evidence.
• Experience reading electrical schematics, piping and instrumentation (P&ID) diagrams, electrical engineering best practices, and industry guidelines for reliability.

Benefits

• Platinum Healthcare Benefits (100% covered for employees, 90% for dependents).
• Basic Life/AD&D and long-term disability insurance 100% covered by Anduril.
• Generous company holiday calendar and highly competitive PTO plans.
• 16 weeks of paid Caregiver & Wellness Leave.
• Family Planning & Parenting Support including fertility and adoption coverage.
• Free mental health resources 24/7 including therapy and life coaching.
• Professional development stipend available to all employees.
• Daily meals and provisions in many offices.
• Company-funded commuter benefits based on region.
• Relocation assistance depending on role eligibility.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan (traditional and Roth).