Principal System Safety Safety Engineer

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