FULL JOB DESCRIPTION:

By joining the CSI Specialty Engineering team you’ll have the opportunity to design, develop and test/analyze product capabilities for a wide area of developmental equipment as well as existing solutions that are repackaged to meet the rugged environment in which our equipment is expected to operate. Our engineers develop and support custom systems at the board, middleware and complete system levels. Our hardware designs range from simple microcontroller-based peripherals to complex secure and rugged processing and type accredited networked systems. CSI engineers work as a multidisciplinary team in order to optimize system design and analysis throughout the product lifecycle.

As part of a multidisciplinary team the CSI System Safety Engineer II will be engaged in all aspects of a program from bidding to delivery. It is also critical that the candidate exhibit strong communication skills and a desire to engage other engineers to both teach and learn. Candidates should be able to present compound problems to a broad audience that may not possess subject matter expertise or be intimately familiar with what system safety encompasses.

The selected candidate must be a U.S. Citizen and will be subject to government security investigations and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

Essential Job Functions/ Responsibilities:

Apply their technical skills within the systems engineering framework (including production and support equipment design) and from a wholistic view of the programs they execute
Develop, derive, understand and track System Safety requirements for all phases of a program
Write guides, develop analyses, and support engineering modeling or simulations to address requirements at the component, subsystem, and system level
Provide design direction for safety criteria for system, equipment, and procedures to control and eliminate hazards
Prepare and review documents in a format consistent with US Military DIDs and interact at the program level during multidisciplinary design reviews (internal and external)
Develop System Safety Program Plans (SSPP) IAW MIL-STD-882 and contractual requirements
Perform hazard analyses IAW MIL-STD-882 and contractual requirements
Perform MIL-STD-882 hazard analyses including Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA), Subsystem Hazard Analysis (SSHA), System Hazard Analysis (SHA), Operating and Support Hazard Analysis (O&SHA), Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA), and Fault Tree Analysis
Reviewing designs, specifications, test procedures, test reports, engineering change, reports, and deviation/waiver requests for potential safety impacts
Develop Safety Assessment Report (SAR) IAW MIL-STD-882 and contractual requirements
Participate in incident investigations and root cause or corrective action analyses
Implement best practices from a System Safety perspective for all programs that they work
Actively engage in training and mentoring of engineers that are less experienced in the arena of System Safety

Minimum Qualifications:

BS in STEM and 5 years of Product/System Safety experience OR a MS and 3 years of Product/System Safety experience
DOD Secret clearance or higher
Familiarity with MIL-STD-882 or SAE ARP-4761
Comfortable with fast pace and dynamic product development environments

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with DoD/aerospace practices, and programmatic experience with BOE, RFP, ROM
DOD Top Secret clearance or higher
The ideal candidate will be able to assess system level impacts based on component level data and determine and execute the evaluation method (quantitative or qualitative) for the question at hand
Experience working with diverse engineering teams to identify product/system hazards, assess and mitigate safety risks encountered in the design, development, test, production, operation and disposal phases of the product/system lifecycle
Experience supporting independent government Safety Review Boards (SRB) and Software System Safety Technical Review Panel (SSSTRP)
Experience executing software system safety engineering on a military program
Experience executing DO-178, AFSPCMAN 910710, or other relevant standards
A wide breadth of experience in military or civil aviation aircraft systems
Experience participating in DoD System Safety Working Groups
Experience in system modeling tools (Cameo or similar MBSE tool)

ABOUT US:

For the past 30 years, Crescent Systems, Inc. (CSI) has been providing our Aerospace and Defense customers with a variety of mission critical system solutions and services aimed to enhance the performance and functionality of Special Mission Aircraft and Ground-Based Installations, specifically intended for operation in austere environments.

Founded in 1995 initially to address the Department of Defense (DoD) community’s needs, CSI designs, develops, implements, tests, deploys, and sustains, reliable and rugged electrical, software and hardware systems solutions to the complex problems of the DoD arena. CSI is a Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB) with headquarters in Richardson, TX and west coast operations located in Roseville, CA to support our customers nationwide.

Crescent Systems operates with integrity, discipline, tolerance, and respect. We are committed to the high standard of ethics, excellence, honesty, fidelity, and quality, expected of an engineering firm and of a United States defense contractor.

It is imperative that we continue to explore new technologies, increase our knowledge, and improve our skills. We will ask questions and voice concerns without reservation or fear of reprisal. We will participate only in honest enterprises and will conduct ourselves in a way that is above reproach. We will be held accountable when we do not.

CSI has a solemn obligation to those we have the honor to support. We will humbly listen to them with respect and will never violate their trust. We understand our responsibility in the execution of their mission. We cannot cause them to fail.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $100,000.00 per year

Benefits:

401(k)
401(k) matching
Dental insurance
Employee assistance program
Flexible schedule
Flexible spending account
Health insurance
Health savings account
Life insurance
Paid time off
Parental leave
Professional development assistance
Referral program
Relocation assistance
Retirement plan
Tuition reimbursement
Vision insurance

Application Question(s):

A requirement of this job is that you obtain and maintain a security clearance and you must be a U.S. citizen. Are you a U.S. citizen?

Experience:

Product/ System Safety: 3 years (Required)
System Safety Program Plans (SSPP) development: 3 years (Required)
MIL-STD-882 or SAE ARP-4761: 3 years (Required)

Work Location: In person

Crescent Systems, Inc.

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