System Safety Engineer

Leonardo

Seeking an experienced System Safety Engineer to ensure product safety and compliance at Leonardo UK. Work involves safety analysis throughout engineering lifecycle for advanced systems.

Posted 6/16/2026full-timeEdinburgh • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSenior💰 £38,000 - £75,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Use safety analysis skills across the full system lifecycle: from requirements analysis (including bids and contracting); through design, development; to system integration, acceptance testing, delivery and in-service support.
Identify hazards and investigate these using functional failure analyses and other techniques, identifying the necessary mitigations to reduce safety risks, and taking part in design trade-offs to implement them.
Evidence your decisions using the data available to you, through fault tree analysis, scenario analysis, and various other techniques.
Contribute to continual improvement of the Company Product Safety and Environmental Impact Management System.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience of safety analysis of complex systems in a safety-critical industry.
Experience across a number of engineering lifecycle phases.
Experience of generating safety engineering artefacts e.g. system safety assessment, hazard log, fault trees, risk assessments etc.
Knowledge of lasers, radar systems, and/or sensors and defensive aids systems.
Ability to work with different engineering disciplines, e.g. software, electronics, mechanical.
Experience with at least one of: ARP4754B, ARP4761A, RTCA DO-254, or DO-178C.
An interest in new and emerging technologies and safety analysis techniques.
Experience with any of the following tools: Cameo Systems Modeler, IBM DOORS, Adelard ASCE, Isograph Reliability Work Bench.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Time to Recharge: Enjoy generous leave with the opportunity to accrue up to 12 additional flexi-days each year.
Secure your Future: Benefit from our award-winning pension scheme with up to 15% employer contribution.
Your Wellbeing Matters: Free access to mental health support, financial advice, and employee-led networks championing inclusion and diversity (Enable, Pride, Equalise, Armed Forces, Carers, Wellbeing and Ethnicity).
Rewarding Performance: All employees at management level and below are eligible for our bonus scheme.
Never Stop Learning: Free access to 4,000+ online courses via Coursera and LinkedIn Learning.
Refer a friend: Receive a financial reward through our referral programme.
Tailored Perks: Spend up to £500 annually on flexible benefits including private healthcare, dental, family cover, tech & lifestyle discounts, gym memberships and more.
Flexible working: Flexible hours with hybrid working options.

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Hard Skills & Tools

safety analysisfunctional failure analysisfault tree analysisscenario analysissystem safety assessmenthazard logrisk assessmentsengineering lifecycle phasessafety engineering artefactssafety-critical systems

Soft Skills

interdisciplinary collaborationdecision makingproblem solvinganalytical thinkingcommunication

Certifications

ARP4754BARP4761ARTCA DO-254DO-178C