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Senior Principal Systems Safety Engineer with Active Secret Clearance

APR Consulting
San Diego, CA Contractor
POSTED ON 12/20/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/17/2026
An aerospace client is looking for a Senior Principal Systems Safety Engineer with Active Secret Clearance to join our team based out of San Diego, CA.

Location: San Diego, CA 92199 (Onsite)
Position: Senior Principal Systems Safety Engineer 
Pay Rate: $55.12 - $106.70/hr. on W2 (DOE)
Duration: 6 months or longer
Schedule: 9x80 A
Shifts: 1st Shift
Travel: Yes, 10% of the Time

OVERVIEW:
A Senior Principal Systems Safety Engineer (Safety Engineer) to join our team based out of San Diego, CA. As a Systems Safety Engineer you will have a challenging and rewarding opportunity to be a part of our Enterprise-wide digital transformation. Through the use of Model-based Engineering, DevSecOps, and Agile practices we continue to evolve how we deliver critical national defense products and capabilities for the warfighter. Our success is grounded in our ability to embrace change, move quickly and continuously drive innovation. The successful candidate will be collaborative, open, transparent, and team-oriented with a focus on team empowerment & shared responsibility, flexibility, continuous learning, and a culture of automation.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • The responsibilities include management interfaces with air worthiness, reliability, logistics support, design engineering, quality assurance, test, and coordination with other safety programs and key participants in the company safety organization. The Safety Engineer will interface between system safety and other functional elements of the programs, as well as with other safety related disciplines (such as Environmental, occupational health, chemical, and biological) and will define the resources needed, to perform the system safety tasks required.
  • As a Systems Safety Engineer, you will provide system safety subject matter expert advice on assigned programs.
  • Perform, prepare and deliver System Safety Hazard Assessments (SSHA), Safety Assessment Report (SAR), Hazardous Materials Management Plan (HMMP), Operating and Support Hazard Analysis (O&SHA)
  • Assist in the management of new hazards realized in operation, maintenance, or arising from changes in the configuration, role, and environment.
  • Liaison with management and regulatory bodies, maintenance, engineering, and customer agencies ensuring all design activities are carried out within the system safety framework.
  • Assist with the maintenance of System Safety Program Plans to ensure compliance with safety regulations.
  • Perform technical airworthiness risk analysis/management.
  • Participate in systems safety engineering reviews.
  • Assist with the facilitation and organization of the System Safety Working Groups.
  • Liaison with other safety engineers and programs to ensure best practice and shared knowledge.
  • Provide advice to Engineers regarding their responsibilities in accordance with the System Safety Program.
  • Make recommendations for endorsement of treatments which may be implemented to reduce the risk caused by hazards.
  • Conduct independent system safety analysis as deemed necessary.
  • Provide training on System Safety Engineering processes and methodologies.
Basic Qualifications for Sr. Principal System Safety Engineer:
  • US Citizenship is required.
  • An interim DoD secret clearance is required to start.
  • 5 Years with a Bachelors in a STEM field; 3 Years with Masters; 0 Years with PhD.
  • Knowledge of aircraft certification standards, MIL-STD-882, ARP4761 or other System Safety standards.
  • Working knowledge of System Safety tools and techniques including Fault Tree Analysis.
  • Experience in leading and/or writing proposals Basis of Estimates (BOEs).
  • Experience in completing detailed risk analysis.
  • Ability to work across multiple disciplines.
  • The ability to obtain and maintain a secret clearance.

Basic Qualifications for Principal System Safety Engineer:
  • US Citizenship is required.
  • An interim DoD secret clearance is required to start
  • 8 Years with a Bachelors in a STEM field; 6 Years with Masters; 4 Years with PhD.
  • Knowledge of aircraft certification standards, MIL-STD-882, ARP4761 or other System Safety standards.
  • Working knowledge of System Safety tools and techniques including Fault Tree Analysis.
  • Experience in leading and/or writing proposals Basis of Estimates (BOEs).
  • Experience in completing detailed risk analysis.
  • Ability to work across multiple disciplines.
  • The ability to obtain and maintain a secret clearance

     
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:.
• Experience with Safety, Reliability Engineering, and Air Worthiness.

• A current/active Secret Clearance.

 
About our client:

Our client is a world leader and premier innovator in aerospace, with over 100,000 top talent employees providing the most advanced products and technologies in the industry. With numerous awards and recognitions, they offer continuous growth, learning, and development for their employees.

About APR:

Since 1980 APR Consulting, Inc. has provided professional recruiting and contingent workforce solutions to a diverse mix of clients, industries, and skill sets nationwide.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Don't miss out on this amazing opportunity! If you feel your experience is the match for this position please apply today and join our team. We look forward to working with you!


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