Staff System Safety Engineer

Anduril's Reliability & System Safety Engineering organization is hiring Staff System Safety Engineers across our product portfolio. Domains may include Air Dominance & Strike, Maritime, Ground Systems, Space, Counter-UAS, and Autonomy/Lattice. The Reliability & System Safety Engineering team works with our broader Engineering team to ensure our products are safe and meet all mission performance, environmental, and customer requirements.

We develop cutting-edge System Safety processes and methods to secure scalable, long-term business success.

As a Staff System Safety Engineer at Anduril, you will establish discipline philosophy across product lines, tackle unprecedented challenges without standard frameworks, and transform departmental capability through new methodologies and multi-year enterprise initiatives. You will lead safety across multiple programs and define safety methodology org-wide.

- Define System Safety methodology org-wide and establish discipline philosophy across product lines

- Lead System Safety across multiple concurrent programs, setting strategy and resolving cross-program technical conflicts

- Drive multi-year enterprise initiatives that transform departmental capability and scale System Safety to support rapid product development

- Architect tailored System Safety program plans aligned with MIL-STD-882E and the needs of Anduril and its customers

- Provide expert technical direction on complex safety analyses including FHA, Fault Tree, SCFTA, FMECA, and System Safety Assessments

- Influence system architecture and design trades from concept through deployment to drive Design for Safety outcomes

- Establish hazard management standards, tracking infrastructure, and risk mitigation frameworks used across programs

- Serve as the senior Subject Matter Expert in the Design Requirements Process and across Development Milestone Reviews (PDR, CDR, QDR)

- Own the most complex Safety corrective actions from RCCA investigations and Mishap Reports, and ensure lessons learned propagate org-wide

- Develop and implement System Safety processes and reports that streamline Design, Manufacturing, and Deployment Operations

- Verify and validate risk and hazard reduction measures at the program and portfolio level

- Represent Anduril externally to customers, regulatory bodies, and industry working groups on safety-related matters

- Drive continuous improvement in System Safety processes and methodologies

- Ensure compliance with relevant military and industry safety standards

- Minimum of 12 years of industry experience as a System Safety Engineer or equivalent engineering background

- B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, or equivalent technical discipline

- Deep experience with safety-critical hardware and software systems in the defense or aerospace industry, with a preference for Weapon Systems, Aircraft, UAS, Maritime, Space or Rotorcraft

- Expert-level knowledge of MIL-STD-882E and other relevant safety standards

- Demonstrated experience establishing System Safety Engineering frameworks across multiple products or programs, including early-stage Design for Safety and Hazard Analysis

- Expert background in safety analysis techniques including FTA, FHA, SCFTA, and FMECA

- Experience with requirements decomposition for Safety at the system-of-systems level

- Failure investigation/analysis experience with a proven track record of solving problems and preventing reoccurrence

- Extensive Design Review experience (PDR, CDR, MRR) and confident presentation skills across all levels of leadership, including executives and external stakeholders

- Strong analytical/problem-solving skills and excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate cross-functionally

- Eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance

- M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, or equivalent technical discipline

- Experience or familiarity with ARP-4754, ARP-4761, MIL-STD-516C, and JSSSEH

- Experience with Relyence, Teamcenter, JIRA, JAMA, Cameo, and/or Ansys

- Experience with risk management, change control/change management reviews, and software/firmware HITL/SITL

- Front-end software architecture and requirements definition experience

- Executive communications, reporting, and roadmap presentation experience