Systems Safety Engineer

Step into a mission-driven role where safety directly strengthens confidence in high-integrity defence cyber systems. As a Systems Safety Engineer, you'll help shape safer products through clear hazard thinking, robust analysis, and practical engineering influence. This role is ideal if you enjoy structured problem-solving, working collaboratively across technical teams, and producing documentation that stands up to scrutiny.

What You Will Do:

• As a Systems Safety Engineer, lead and support hazard identification, safety assessment, and failure analysis across the product lifecycle.
• Perform safety and reliability analyses, including FMEA and FMECA, to identify design weaknesses and drive effective mitigations.
• Create and maintain a hazard log, ensuring hazards, actions, and verification evidence remain traceable and closed.
• Define and derive safety requirements with strong traceability from hazards through to implementation and verification.
• Support the development of the safety case by structuring arguments, linking evidence, and aligning outputs to applicable standards.
• Deliver high-quality safety documentation, contribute to safety reviews and workshops, and ensure verification and validation confirm mitigations work.

What You Will Bring:

• Experience applying safety standards and industry practices (including Def Stan 00-056, MIL-STD 1629, MIL-HDBK-217F, ARP4761 and ARP4754 where applicable).
• Hands-on knowledge of hazard analysis techniques such as PHA, FHA, FTA, and Event Tree Analysis (ETA).
• The ability to work with complex evidence and produce clear, traceable documentation for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Confidence influencing engineering decisions in safety-critical contexts, with a structured, methodical approach to risk management.
• A willingness to obtain and maintain the required UK security clearance level for defence programmes.

Every Systems Safety Engineer plays a vital part in delivering secure, dependable systems for mission-critical applications. In this safety-focused engineering environment, your outputs help ensure products are robust, compliant, and ready for real-world operation. The work directly supports the cyber business by strengthening assurance over systems that handle confidential information and demand the highest levels of trust. Collaboration is key: you'll partner with multidisciplinary engineering teams, contribute to bid and proposal support, and promote a safety-first culture through practical improvements and knowledge sharing.

Location:

The Systems Safety Engineer role is based in Maidenhead.

Interested?:

If this Systems Safety Engineer position feels like a strong match, apply now and take the next step towards meaningful, safety-led impact in defence cyber engineering.

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