Systems Safety Engineer

Job ID: 2503928

Location: STERLING HEIGHTS, MI, US

Date Posted: 2025-04-04

Category: Engineering and Sciences

Subcategory: Sys Safety Engr

Schedule: Full-time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time

Minimum Clearance Required: Interim Secret

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Secret

Potential for Remote Work: No

Description

SAIC is seeking a Systems Safety Engineer for our team in Sterling Heights MI.

This position is contingent upon contract award.

Systems Safety Engineer Job Duties :

The candidate for this position will support the entire SAIC effort in support of systems requirements definition, architecture analysis, design analysis, which includes, but is not limited to:

• Apply industry best practices for vehicle functional safety in accordance with ISO 26262 "Road vehicles - Functional safety" and Mil-Std-882E, "Systems Safety"
• Conduct a range of modeling, simulation, and analysis in areas such as operational mission scenarios, maneuvers, and situational awareness
• Develop and mature analysis system and software tools
• Provide technical expertise in the modeling and analysis of military vehicle systems and their broader system-of-systems architectures
• Conduct trade studies and comparative performance assessments of system and architecture alternatives to inform customer investment decisions/recommendations
• Apply model-based system engineering (MBSE) to define system functions and develop functional and performance requirements
• Apply model-based system engineering (MBSE) to develop architectural views using DoDAF/MODAF (UPDM) and Systems Modeling Language (SysML)
• Analyze MBSE models to derive mission threads and use cases to aid in system-level verification planning
• Lead subject matter experts, stakeholders, and customers throughout the process of developing and coordinating system level specifications
• Identify proposed changes to technical baseline documents (i.e., interface documents, specifications documents, architecture products)
• Prepare and present engineering analysis, gaps, and recommendations to senior leadership and/or design reviews
• Prepare system and design review packages
• Develop and implement metrics to measure product quality and development performance
• Collaborate with engineering teams to develop the safety analysis and strategy at the system, hardware, and software level
• Ensure that safety plan activities meet program timing
• Align safety related topics with suppliers and customers
• Determine and analyze safety requirements
• Create the Functional and Technical Safety Concepts (FSC and TSC)
• Perform the necessary safety analyses (e.g., FMEA, Hazard Analysis, and FTA)
• Define the required tests for the verification and validation of the safety requirements
• Create the Safety Cases in accordance with industry best practices
• Prepare contract deliverable reports to include:

* Failure Summary and Analysis Report - Failure Analysis and Corrective Action Report (FACAR)

* Failure Analysis and Corrective Action Report - FRACAS Report

* Safety & Health Hazard Assessment Report - Safety Assessment Report (SAR)

• Prepare risk approaches to determine integrity levels (i.e., Automotive Safety Integrity Levels (ASILs))

Qualifications

Required Education :

• Bachelors and nine (9) years or more experience; Masters and seven (7) years or more experience; four (4) years or more experience

Qualifications :

• Must have a minimum of 7 years' experience in systems safety analysis for ground vehicles
• Experience working in an Agile team/framework
• Strong technical background in vehicle and robotic mechanics and dynamics
• Experience in DoDAF, SysML and UML modeling, simulation, and analysis
• Proficiency using DOORS or other requirements management tool
• Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) experience using Cameo Enterprise Architect, Rational Rhapsody, Sparx Enterprise Architect, or other comparable tools
• Experience with MATLAB, STK, AFSIM, Simulink, Model Center, or other comparable modeling and simulation tools

Clearance :

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret Security clearance
• U.S. Citizenship required