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Working at Airbus

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Join Airbus Defence and Space in Getafe, Spain as a System Safety Engineer. This permanent, full-time entry-level role offers a hybrid working model and focuses on ensuring military aircraft products are designed, developed, and certified to the highest safety and airworthiness standards.

Requirements

  • Aeronautical or Industrial Engineering degree, or related discipline.
  • Professional experience in Systems Engineering with interfaces to Safety, Airworthiness, or Certification.
  • Advanced level in English.
  • Good understanding of aircraft systems and advanced MS Office skills.
  • Experience with Safety Tools (e.g., Isograph FaultTree+) and System Safety Assessment (SSA) is valued.

Skills & Responsibilities

  • System Safety Assessment: Perform SSA activities for military aircraft systems from development phases to final certification.
  • Failure Analysis: Identify and classify failure conditions by conducting systematic examinations of system functions based on severity.
  • Safety Requirements: Establish system safety requirements and perform preliminary evaluations to ensure proposed architectures meet safety objectives.
  • Compliance Generation: Generate technical evidence to demonstrate compliance with required safety standards before Airworthiness Authorities.
  • Safety Analyses: Conduct common-cause and continuous airworthiness risk analyses.
  • Potential transition routes: People from Systems Engineering or Quality Assurance roles may bring analytical and compliance skills, alongside meeting the engineering degree and English requirements.

Job description

Job Description:

An opportunity for a System Safety Engineer has arisen within Airbus Defence and Space, Getafe (Madrid).

The selected candidate will join the Aircraft Development Safety Team. The team is multicultural, multidisciplinary, and offers a 360-degree view of the aircraft development process. You will work closely with Design Offices, Chief Engineering, System Suppliers, and Airworthiness Authorities. The jobholder will reinforce our team to ensure that Airbus military products are designed, developed, and certified according to the highest safety and airworthiness standards.

RESPONSIBILITIES

The main tasks of the jobholder will be:

  • Perform System Safety Assessment (SSA) activities for military aircraft systems from development phases until final certification.
  • Identify and classify failure conditions by conducting systematic examinations of system functions based on their severity.
  • Establish System Safety requirements and perform preliminary evaluations to ensure the proposed architecture meets safety objectives.
  • Generate technical evidence to demonstrate compliance with required safety standards in front of Airworthiness Authorities.
  • Conduct safety analyses including Common-Cause (Particular Risk, Zonal, and Common Mode) and Continuous Airworthiness Risk Analyses.
  • Manage supplier data and safety requirements at the interface of interacting systems, hardware, software, and technical domains.

SKILLS

Is your profile aligned to the following list of skills? Apply! We are looking forward to knowing you:

  • Education: Aeronautical or Industrial Engineering degree, or a related discipline.
  • Experience: Professional experience in Systems Engineering with interfaces to Safety, Airworthiness, or Certification.
  • Technical knowledge: Good understanding of Aircraft systems and advanced MS Office skills.
  • Languages: Advanced level in English.
  • Soft skills: Teamwork mindset, problem-solving skills, and high adaptability to work in a networking mode.
  • Valuable / Nice to have: Experience with Safety Tools (e.g., Isograph FaultTree+) and System Safety Assessment (SSA) experience will be valued.

Apply now
Airbus

System Safety Engineer

Getafe
Hybrid
Attractive salary
WHICH BENEFITS WILL YOU HAVE AS AIRBUS EMPLOYEE?

At Airbus we are focused on our employees and their welfare. Take a look at some of our social benefits:

  • Vacation days plus additional days-off along the year.
  • Attractive salary.
  • Hybrid model of working when possible, promoting the work-life balance.
  • Collective transport service in some sites.
  • Benefits such as health insurance, em ployee stock options, retirement plan, or study grants.
  • On-sit e facilities (among others): free canteen, kindergarten, medical office.
  • Possibility to collaborate in different social and corporate social responsibility initiatives.
  • Excellent upskilling opportunities and great development prospects in a multicultural environment.
  • Special rates in products & benefits.

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Company:
Airbus Defence and Space SAU

Employment Type:
Permanent
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Experience Level:
Entry Level

Job Family:
Qualification & Operability

By submitting your CV or application you are consenting to Airbus using and storing information about you for monitoring purposes relating to your application or future employment. This information will only be used by Airbus.
Airbus is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.

Airbus is, and always has been, committed to equal opportunities for all. As such, we will never ask for any type of monetary exchange in the frame of a recruitment process. Any impersonation of Airbus to do so should be reported to emsom@airbus.com .

At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

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