System Engineer - Safety / Fault Protection

El Segundo, CAfull timeOn Site

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senior

$135k–$165k

H1B: no

Spacekinetic System Engineer - Safety / Fault Protection at Spacekinetic focuses on ensuring spacecraft safety and reliability through hazard analysis and fault protection strategies. The role involves evaluating mission risks and supporting verification and anomaly investigations.

Responsibilities

We are seeking a System Engineer with a focus on Safety / Fault Protection to ensure our space vehicles can safely and reliably accomplish their missions. This role will identify mission risks, evaluate off-nominal conditions, and influence spacecraft architecture, verification planning, and fault-protection strategies for government space programs.
Job Responsibilities:
Perform hazard analyses, fault tree analyses, FMEAs, and other safety assessments.
Identify hazard controls, residual risks, and single-point, common-cause, and cascading failures.
Develop fault detection, isolation, containment, recovery, and safing requirements.
Evaluate spacecraft architecture, autonomy, modes, command paths, and off-nominal behavior.
Translate safety objectives into verifiable system and subsystem requirements.
Verify hazard controls through analysis, testing, simulation, and fault injection.
Support anomaly investigations, corrective actions, design reviews, readiness reviews, and customer safety reviews.
Maintain traceability across hazards, controls, requirements, procedures, and verification evidence.
Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace, Systems, Electrical, Mechanical, or Computer Engineering or a related field.
3–7 years of experience with spacecraft, launch vehicles, autonomous systems, or other safety-critical systems.

Qualification

Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace3–7 years of experience with spacecraftExperience in system safetyExperience with fault protection

Required

Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace, Systems, Electrical, Mechanical, or Computer Engineering or a related field
3–7 years of experience with spacecraft, launch vehicles, autonomous systems, or other safety-critical systems
Experience in system safety, reliability, fault management, mission assurance, or spacecraft systems engineering
Knowledge of spacecraft subsystem interactions and end-to-end vehicle operations
Experience with fault protection, hazard assessments, fault tree analyses, FMEAs, or similar methods