Senior System Safety Engineer, Aircraft Systems

Anduril Industries
Costa Mesa, California, United StatesPosted 24 February 2026

Job Description

<div class="content-intro"><p>Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.</p></div><p><strong>Anduril’s Reliability System Safety Engineering</strong> organization is seeking <strong>a System Safety Engineer </strong>to join our Air Dominance Strike team. The Reliability System Safety Engineering team works with our broader Engineering team to ensure our products are safe and meet all mission performance, environmental conditions, and customer requirements. We develop cutting-edge Reliability System Safety processes and methods to secure scalable, long-term business success.<br><br>As a System Safety Engineer at Anduril, you will leverage your extensive knowledge of advanced Reliability System Safety tools and methodologies to drive excellence in our safety processes. You will support the Reliability Engineering, Systems Engineering, and Hardware Software development teams across the product development lifecycle by guiding Functional Hazard Analysis, Fault Trees, System Safety Assessments, and Hazard Management and Hazard Mitigation activities for your product(s). The right person for this role has knowledge of design and development with a safety focus on aircraft systems, as well as exposure to test, analysis, manufacturing, and continuous improvement in a production environment. If you are someone who has hands-on experience throughout the new product development life cycle from concept to customer delivery, loves to build world-class Reliability and Safety processes, can work efficiently across multi disciplinary teams, and be accountable for results, then this role is for you.<br><br></p> <h3>WHAT YOU'LL DO</h3> <div data-section-style="7"> <ul> <li>Develop and implement tailored System Safety program plans aligned with MIL-STD-882E and the needs of Anduril its customers.</li> <li>Conduct and review complex safety analyses, including FHA (Functional Hazard Analysis), System/Subsystem Hazard Analysis, System of Systems Hazard Analysis, Environmental Hazard Analysis, Operating and Support Hazard Analysis, Health Hazard Analysis, Fault Tree Analysis and SCFTA (Safety Critical Functional Thread Analysis)</li> <li>Develop and document a Safety Assessment Report (SAR)</li> <li>Develop safety requirements and collaborate with design teams to implement safety solutions</li> <li>Identify document hazards risks for your program(s), manage hazard tracking databases, and ensure proper risk mitigation strategies are in place</li> <li>Support the Design Requirements Process as a Subject Matter Expert to ensure teams adhere to Safety best practices</li> <li>Support Development Milestone Reviews such as CoDR, PDR, CDR, FRR representing System Safety</li> <li>Lead and triage all Safety corrective actions from RCCA investigations and Mishap Reports</li> <li>Host regular corrective action reviews to ensure lessons learned are communicated with all stakeholders, and that all actions have been implemented in a timely manner</li> <li>Develop, Draft, and Implement System Safety Processes and reports for the business to improve and streamline our Design, Manufacturing, and Deployment Operations efforts for rapid development</li> <li>Verify and validate risk and hazard reduction measures</li> <li>Liaise with customers, regulatory bodies, and internal stakeholders on safety-relat ... (truncated, view full listing at source)