Systems Safety Engineering and Analysis

Job Description

Job Description Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Relocation bonus
• Vision insurance

Senior Systems Safety Engineer – Defense Systems

• ??? Tucson, AZ | 100% Onsite
• ??? Ability to Obtain a U.S. Security Clearance Required

Legion Technical Solutions (LTS) is seeking an experienced Senior Systems Safety Engineer to support a premier aerospace and defense customer in Tucson, Arizona.

This is an opportunity to work on sophisticated defense systems where *system safety is integral to the engineering process—not an afterthought. You’ll work alongside multidisciplinary engineering teams to identify hazards, influence system design, mitigate risk, and help ensure complex products meet rigorous military safety requirements throughout their lifecycle.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and support **MIL-STD-882E compliant System Safety Programs
• Perform system safety, hazard, and design analyses in accordance with MIL-STD-882E or approved customer equivalents
• Identify system hazards and work with engineering teams to eliminate hazards or develop effective controls and mitigations
• Collaborate across Systems, Hardware, Software, Test, Reliability, Program Management, and other engineering disciplines
• Interpret system requirements, customer specifications, and military standards
• Prepare technical analyses, safety documentation, and customer-facing reports
• Present system safety findings during technical reviews and safety approval activities
• Work directly with customer safety representatives and government approval authorities to obtain required safety approvals
• Support programs throughout the lifecycle—from development and qualification through production, sustainment, demilitarization, and disposal

What We’re Looking For

We’re particularly interested in engineers with hands-on experience in:

* System Safety Engineering

* MIL-STD-882E / MIL-STD-882

• System and subsystem hazard analysis
• Hazard identification, risk assessment, mitigation, and tracking
• Safety requirements and verification
• Safety Review Boards and/or government safety approval processes
• Systems engineering within aerospace, defense, missile, weapons, or other complex mission-critical systems
• Working across multidisciplinary Integrated Product Teams (IPTs)

The Opportunity

This role offers the chance to work on programs supporting national defense while solving complex engineering and safety challenges. You’ll have significant interaction with technical teams, program leadership, customers, and government safety authorities—and the opportunity to directly influence the safety of advanced defense systems.

Important Details

• ??? Location:Tucson, Arizona
• ??? Work Arrangement: 100% onsite at the customer’s Tucson facility
• ??? Clearance: Candidates must be eligible to obtain and maintain the required U.S. government security clearance
• ??????? Citizenship: U.S. citizenship required for security-clearance eligibility

Interested?

If your background includes MIL-STD-882E, System Safety, hazard analysis, and defense/aerospace systems engineering, we’d like to hear from you.

Legion Technical Solutions (LTS) connects accomplished technical professionals with challenging programs where their experience can make a meaningful impact.