System Engineer - Safety / Fault Protection

What You'll Do

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.

What It Takes

• 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.
• Experience developing and verifying technical requirements across multiple engineering disciplines.
• Strong technical writing, communication, and risk-informed engineering judgment.

What We'd Love

• Experience with range safety and AFSPCMAN 91-710.
• Knowledge of COTS space-rating assessments or low Earth orbit radiation risks.
• Experience with spacecraft fault management, autonomous safing, or mission-recovery architectures.
• Experience with fault injection, hardware-in-the-loop testing, Monte Carlo analysis, or mission simulations.
• Experience supporting NASA, the Department of Defense, the Intelligence Community, or other government space programs.
• Experience with MBSE and requirements tools such as Cameo, MagicDraw, SysML, DOORS, or Jama.
• Active or previously held U.S. government security clearance.

What We Offer

• Equity-Based Compensation
• 401(k) retirement plan with a 3.5% company match
• Highly Competitive PTO
• Paid company holidays + winter break
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Unique Performance-based bonus opportunities

ITAR Requirements

To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about ITAR here.