Space Kinetic
Spacecraft System Safety & Mission Assurance Engineer
About this role
Space Kinetic seeks a Spacecraft System Safety & Mission Assurance Engineer to identify risks, assess hazardous conditions, and develop fault-protection strategies for innovative space vehicles. You'll partner across engineering disciplines to influence spacecraft architecture and ensure safe, reliable mission accomplishment throughout the program lifecycle.
What you'll do
- Lead hazard analyses, fault tree analyses, failure modes and effects analyses, and other safety and risk assessments
- Identify hazard causes, controls, verification methods, single-point failures, and cascading failure modes
- Develop fault-protection concepts and requirements including detection, isolation, recovery, and safing strategies
- Evaluate spacecraft responses to off-nominal conditions and coordinate fault-management across software, avionics, and operations
- Translate safety objectives into clear, verifiable system and subsystem requirements with full traceability
- Support anomaly investigations, root cause analyses, design reviews, and customer safety reviews
What they're looking for
- System safety and reliability engineering
- Fault tree analysis and failure modes and effects analysis
- Spacecraft subsystem interactions and operations
- Fault detection, isolation, and recovery system design
- Technical requirements development and verification planning
- Risk analysis and hazard assessment methods
- Flight software and avionics coordination
- Technical writing and multidisciplinary communication
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Space Kinetic
Space Kinetic builds innovative space technology and satellite systems, developing hardware and software for advanced space operations. The company is hiring electrical engineers, flight software engineers, test engineers, machinists, and leadership roles to design, prototype, and validate flight-ready aerospace systems.
View all jobs at Space KineticLikely interview questions
- Describe your experience leading or supporting hazard analyses and fault tree analyses on spacecraft or safety-critical systems—what methodologies did you use and what was your role?
- Walk us through a specific example where you identified a single-point failure or common-cause failure that significantly impacted mission architecture or design decisions.