System Safety Engineer - Aircraft Development

About the role

Airbus Defence and Space is looking for a System Safety Engineer to join its Aircraft Development Safety team in Getafe. The role ensures that aircraft products are designed, developed and supported in line with the safety standards linked to airworthiness regulations. It sits within a multidisciplinary team working closely with design offices, chief engineering offices, services, suppliers, airworthiness authorities and, in some cases, customers.

Key responsibilities

• Carry out system safety assessment activities for military aircraft systems, supporting development through to certification.
• Examine system functions systematically to identify and classify failure conditions by severity.
• Establish system safety requirements and perform preliminary evaluations of proposed architectures against safety objectives.
• Generate evidence showing that the final system architecture meets the required safety requirements in front of airworthiness authorities.
• Perform common-cause analyses (particular risk analysis, zonal safety analysis, common mode analysis).
• Carry out risk analyses required to demonstrate continuous airworthiness.
• Manage safety requirements at interfaces between systems and with technical domains such as processes, maintenance, human factors, performance, structures and quality.
• Review, approve and apply supplier data on safety and reliability across all levels of development, from aircraft down to hardware and software requirements.

Required profile

• Master's degree in aeronautical or industrial engineering (or a similar discipline).
• Good knowledge of aircraft systems.
• Experience in system engineering with an interface to safety assessment, airworthiness or certification is an advantage; system safety assessment experience is also an advantage.
• Advanced MS Office skills are presumed.
• Good level of English and teamwork and problem-solving skills.

Required skills

• Safety tools such as Isograph FaultTree+ are valued.
• Knowledge of aircraft systems and system safety assessment.

What we offer

• Vacation days plus additional days off during the year.
• Hybrid working where possible, collective transport at some sites, and on-site facilities such as a canteen, kindergarten and medical office.
• Health insurance, employee stock options, retirement plan and study grants.
• Upskilling opportunities and development prospects in a multicultural environment.