Principal System Safety Engineer
Butler
Tucson, AZ · Posted September 8, 2026
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About the job
Principal System Safety Engineer
Location: Tucson, AZ
Job ID: #73152
Pay Range: $94-104 ph (W2)
Duration: 6 - 12 mos
As a Principal System Safety Engineer, your responsibilities will include: Developing and implementing one or more MIL STD 882E compliant system safety programs Performing MIL STD 882 System Safety Program tasks and analyses, involving management (task series 100), analysis (task series 200), evaluation (task series 300), and verification (task series 400). Working across all integrated product teams and lines to properly eliminate hazards or provide effective controls. Coordinating with customer safety representatives applying methods, standards, and techniques to provide clarification of system requirements to software, hardware, and test personnel to ensure design and architecture considerations are appropriately allocated to the system and horizontally integrated across the development teams.
Collaborating with Program Management and government approval authorities from program startup through production to demilitarization and disposal backgrounds. Key Responsibilities will include: An analysis of engineering hardware, mechanical and electrical drawings and schematics assessing fault tolerance, latent hazards, and safety requirements compliance. Work with system test and tactical operation and maintenance procedures to ensure the proper administrative system safety controls are in place.
Design of concise, testable safety requirements or providing safety analysis of existing requirements Work across all integrated product teams and lines to properly eliminate hazards or provide effective controls.Collaborating with Program Management and government approval authorities from program startup through production to demilitarization and disposal backgrounds?
Performing System Safety Program or Design analyses. Monitoring a technical execution program Mentoring Multiple Jr. Engineers Interfacing with stakeholders (e.g. customers, program offices, subcontractors, vendors). Preparing Safety Assessment Reports and Safety Program Briefs for Customer Approval. Briefing safety of the program at technical reviews and as part of the safety approval process. Interpreting system requirements, customer specifications and military standards. Preparing internal and customer reports describing various analyses relevant to the System Safety program. Collaborating across multiple disciplines to gain a full understanding of product architecture and design.
Benefits provided: 401K, medical, dental, and vision, sick time as applicable to state law
Butler America Aerospace, LLC. is an equal opportunity employer. Butler evaluates applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics. The Butler America Aerospace, LLC. EEO Policy Statement and “Know Your Rights” Poster is available here: Applicant and Employee Notices .
Butler America Aerospace, LLC. is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please contact the Human Resources Department at accommodations@butler.com .
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