Senior System Safety Engineer – Digital Engineering

Edge Case Research

Senior System Safety Engineer leveraging proprietary AI platform for safety assessments at Edge Case. Collaborating with clients in Defense, Auto, and Energy to enhance engineering workflows.

Posted 6/10/2026full-timeRemote • Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $145,000 - $175,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Utilize AI-Assisted Tools: Use our proprietary AI platform to support safety assessments (FHA, FTA, STPA, HARA) and streamline routine safety analyses.
Human-in-the-Loop Validation: Critically review, refine, and audit AI-generated safety outputs to ensure absolute technical accuracy and compliance with military and commercial standards.
Product Feedback Loop: Partner directly with our software product team to provide real-world user feedback, helping shape the features, UI, and capabilities of our platform.
Customer Strategy: Guide premier clients in Defense, Auto, and Energy to define their Concept of Operations (CONOPS) and Operational Design Domains (ODD).
Derive Safety Requirements: Define system/subsystem safety requirements, hardware/software Level of Rigor (LoR), and track mitigations from design through verification.
Deliver Modern Safety Cases: Generate advanced Safety Assessment Reports (SAR) and Digital Safety Cases, moving customers toward dynamic digital engineering environments.

Requirements

What you’ll need

US Work Authorization: Precondition of employment (Sponsorship is not available).
Experience: 4 to 10 years of dedicated system safety engineering experience.
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
Standard Fluency: Proven experience implementing compliance frameworks such as MIL-STD 882E, JSSSEH, ISO 26262, ISO 21448 (SOTIF), ARP-4761, or DO-178.
Core Analysis Toolkit: Mastery of traditional techniques (PHA, FHA, SHA, FTA, FMECA) and modern methodologies like STPA (Systems-Theoretic Process Analysis).
Documentation Mastery: Experience generating formal Safety Program Plans (SSPP), Safety Cases, and Safety Assessment Reports (SAR).

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical
Dental
Vision
Life Insurance
Short-Term Disability
Long-Term Disability
401(k) match
Flexible Spending Accounts
Parental Leave
Paid time off
Holidays

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Hard Skills & Tools

system safety engineeringsafety assessmentssafety requirementssafety analysiscompliance frameworksPHAFHAFTASTPAFMECA

Soft Skills

critical reviewauditinguser feedbackcustomer strategyguidancecollaboration