Principal System Safety Safety Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Fellow-Level System Safety Engineer

We are seeking a Fellow-level System Safety Engineer to support a high-visibility advanced aerospace and defense program in Tucson, AZ. This role is focused on identifying, evaluating, mitigating, and communicating safety risks across the full system lifecycle for complex mission-critical products.

The best-fit candidate is a senior system safety SME with deep MIL-STD-882E experience, prior ownership of system safety programs, strong technical review-board presence, and the ability to brief senior stakeholders, safety approval authorities, and cross-functional engineering leaders.

Location: Tucson, AZ

Schedule: 1st shift, 9/80A schedule

Work Setting: Onsite

Role Type: Yearlong contract with ability to extend multiple years or convert to permanent

Openings: 1

Citizenship: U.S. citizenship required

Clearance: Active Secret clearance required before start; special program-specific clearance required before start

Pay Rate: $112.50 to $131.75 per hour, depending on experience level and client approval

Benefits

Eligible CRG contract employees may have access to the following benefits after 30 days of employment:

• Medical coverage
• Dental coverage
• Vision coverage
• Weekly pay
• Direct deposit
• Referral bonus opportunities
• Support from the CRG recruiting and account management team throughout the assignment

401(k) eligibility begins after 12 months as a CRG employee. Benefit eligibility, plan details, waiting periods, and employee costs should be confirmed during onboarding.

Responsibilities

• Lead system safety engineering activities for an advanced aerospace and defense program
• Apply rigorous system safety principles across the full product lifecycle
• Lead MIL-STD-882E compliant system safety programs, including management, analysis, evaluation, and verification tasking
• Identify hazards, assess risk, recommend mitigation strategies, and drive corrective actions through closure
• Support safety review boards, engineering safety review boards, failure review boards, independent reviews, and non-advocate reviews
• Brief safety status, risk posture, program concerns, and mitigation plans to senior and executive-level stakeholders
• Lead and coordinate System Safety Working Groups with internal and customer representatives
• Interpret system requirements, customer specifications, military standards, and safety approval expectations
• Partner with Chief Engineers, Program Managers, IPT Leads, Systems Engineering, Software, Firmware, Electrical, Hardware, Test Engineering, Human Systems Integration, and EHS stakeholders
• Analyze hardware, mechanical drawings, electrical drawings, schematics, fault tolerance, latent hazards, and safety requirement compliance
• Support configuration control boards, engineering review boards, and design-change impact assessments
• Establish ongoing feedback loops with functional and program leadership
• Mentor junior system safety engineers and provide technical direction to supporting safety personnel
• Escalate safety risks appropriately and follow through on corrective actions

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics
• 20+ years of relevant engineering experience
• Deep system safety engineering experience
• Experience managing a system safety program
• Strong knowledge of MIL-STD-882E risk assessment concepts
• Experience writing technical reports and executive-level presentations
• Experience briefing safety status to safety approval authorities, technical review boards, and safety review boards
• Active Secret clearance required before start
• U.S. citizenship required
• Ability to work onsite in Tucson, AZ

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in STEM
• Experience briefing military safety review boards
• Experience with WSESRB, SSSTRP, or comparable government safety approval processes
• Experience with Product Safety Officer roles and responsibilities
• Experience with Agile system/software safety implementation
• Experience with EVMS and proposal development
• Experience with engineering change proposals, engineering review boards, and System Safety Working Groups
• Experience with Human Systems Integration and Human Factors Engineering under MIL-STD-1472
• Prior hypersonics, missile systems, effector, weapon system, flight test, or advanced defense program experience