eVTOL Safety & Reliability Engineer

About the role

You will join an eVTOL aircraft company to own the safety analysis that proves the aircraft is safe enough to certify. This team runs functional hazard assessments, fault trees, and failure mode analyses across every system, and tracks each hazard to a validated mitigation. Your work is the analytical backbone of the certification safety case, and your signature stands behind the claim that catastrophic failures are extremely improbable. You will challenge every design team with uncomfortable questions about failure, and your analyses will be the documents the authority reads most carefully when judging whether this aircraft should fly.

What you will achieve

• Lead functional hazard assessments and system safety assessments for assigned systems, producing analyses the authority accepts without major findings.
• Build fault tree analyses that demonstrate catastrophic failure conditions meet their probability budgets, driving design changes where the math does not close.
• Run FMEA and FMECA campaigns that catch single-point failures in design reviews, before they are discovered in test or in service.
• Establish reliability predictions and maintenance credit assumptions that the operations team can actually live with over the aircraft's service life.
• Close safety-derived requirements through verification, maintaining the traceability chain from hazard identification to test evidence. Every safety claim in the certification package traces to a verified requirement, with no gaps for the authority to find.

What you will bring

Must-haves

• 2 to 5 years in system safety or reliability engineering on aircraft, spacecraft, or other safety-critical products with analyses that flew.
• Working knowledge of ARP4761 and the full safety assessment process from functional hazard assessment through fault tree analysis.
• Experience running FMEA and FMECA at system and component level, with findings that changed designs.
• Understanding of common cause analysis, including zonal safety, particular risk, and common mode considerations.
• Ability to read system architectures and spot failure propagation paths that other engineers miss.
• Technical writing precise enough for authority-facing safety documents that withstand regulatory scrutiny.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with model-based safety analysis tools and their integration with MBSE.
• Background in software safety analysis per DO-178C or system development assurance per ARP4754A.
• Familiarity with continued airworthiness and in-service safety monitoring programs.
• Knowledge of human factors analysis as it applies to flight crew error and mitigation.