System Safety Engineer

Glydways

full-time

Posted on: 9/25/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

Cyber SecurityPython

About the role

Perform safety analysis at all levels of the Glydways Automated Transit System to identify design vulnerabilities and specify safety requirements for the Glydways system, transit network operations, and guideway infrastructure to ensure passenger and operations safety
Work with project stakeholders to analyze hazards specific to each project, assure compliance to local safety and regulatory standards, and support safety certification for new systems
Work with cross-functional teams to contribute to the development of automated transit technology, coordinate safety requirements across a complex system, and support definition of system constraints
Tailor system safety and safety certification plans to comply with project regulatory environment and project schedule
Perform hazard and risk analysis and define prevention and control measures to control safety risk
Perform operational hazard analysis including Egress analysis, Fire Life Safety, Maintenance hazard analysis and HMI
Perform Failure Modes, Effects and Analysis (FMEA) and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) of the System, Hardware and Software
Derive safety requirements for system, hardware and software levels, including design constraints regarding performance and timing to ensure faults and failures are properly mitigated
Perform RAM analysis and drive system requirements to assure compliance to project RAM targets
Identify, organize, track, and document all necessary Functional Safety activities within the project
Communicate findings and recommendations through written and oral presentations to achieve consensus across multi-disciplined teams

Requirements

Minimum 5+ years of experience working in functional safety, system safety, or safety engineering
Ability to perform safety analysis for complex designs and functions
Ability to derive functional safety requirements from analytical and data models like FTA, FMEA
Excellent communication and presentation skills
Organization skills and ability to achieve consensus within diverse multi-disciplined teams
Experience with Product Development Life Cycle (Systems, Hardware, Software)
Strong analytic and problem-solving skills
Working knowledge of relevant industry standards including one or more of IEC 61508, EN50126, EN50129, EN50128/EN50716, ASCE 21-21
Experience developing safety cases for public transit projects (desired)
Comfort with complex autonomous systems; experience with self-driving vehicles preferred (desired)
Experience with RAM analysis methods and metrics (desired)
Working knowledge with “state of the art” tools for physical modeling and simulation (ex. Jama, Jira, Confluence, Python, Medini, etc.) (desired)
Experience with analytical methods (HARA, HAZOP, SOTIF, FME(C)A, FMEDA, FTA, Dependent Failure Analysis) (desired)
Ability to demonstrate a proven track record of successfully working with large, complex teams in a results-driven environment (desired)
Experience with Cybersecurity and Machine Learning is a plus (desired)