Lunar Terrain Vehicle System Safety Engineer

Humans left the moon for the last time on December 14, 1972, over 51 years ago! With renewed interest in exploration and commercial lunar development, NASA is investing with industry partners to design, build, and fly the next generation of crewed/remote-piloted/autonomous lunar surface vehicles. Leidos is actively involved with NASA delivering flight hardware for the Lunar Dawn team. Leidos is seeking a talented Mechanical, Aerospace, or Electrical Engineer to support the LTV program.

As a core member of the team, you will play a valuable part in supporting and executing the LTV program for NASA. You will be required to support multiple tasks in parallel, productively contribute to and lead team environments, and communicate effectively to management, coworkers, and customers. You must also be self-motivated and highly organized with a focus on managing customer expectations with a constant goal of generating high quality products that exceed stakeholder expectations. This is a dynamic opportunity supporting the Safety and Mission Assurance team in which talented engineers can thrive working alongside senior engineers on a diverse array of multidisciplinary projects in the space systems arena.

Position Description:

With some direction, perform tasks necessary to ensure the identification of Safety Critical Items and documentation of hazards within systems using various analysis tools and techniques. Understand the basic elements of system safety engineering to include hazard analyses, hazard categorization, end effects, causal analyses, mitigation requirements identification, documentation, tracking and implementing, and residual risk assessment.

Typical analyses performed include but are not limited to: Fault Tree Analyses, Hazard Analyses, hazard mitigation, Safety risk assessments, and system residual risk assessments.

• Reviews product systems, associated support equipment and facilities, functional specifications and operations, and establishes safety requirements for assigned systems
• Develops safety documents as required to support customer and test, operational, or range requirements
• Participates in accident investigations involving damage to products or related facilities and assists in identification of causes and corrective actions
• Performs audits of operational areas and reports effectiveness of the System Safety program
• Ancillary duties may include tasks associated with environmental safety and health, hazardous materials, industrial hygiene, human factors, reliability engineering, explosive safety, directed energy (laser) safety, and/or test range safety

Qualifications - To be considered for this position, you must minimally meet the knowledge, skills, and abilities listed below:

• Position requires candidates to be capable of performing in a collaborative engineering environment working closely with multi-disciplinary teams
• Applicant must have or be pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, or Electrical Engineering, from an ABET accredited college or university with completion prior to the start date
• Applicant must be a US Citizen.
• Applicant must have an overall GPA of 3.0 or above
• Develops solutions to complex technical issues and problems that impact multiple areas or disciplines
• Good verbal and written skills
• Familiar with Microsoft Office
• Applicant must be willing to work in-office in Huntsville, AL
• Ability to track multiple tasks and prioritize work independently
• Self-motivation and quick learner to adapt to the broad array of subjects and issues encountered

Preferred:

• Knowledge of System Safety fundamentals
• Familiarity with Risk Management
• Familiarity with Reliability Engineering
• Familiarity with Software Hazard Analyses

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Original Posting:

October 1, 2025

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $50,050.00 - $90,475.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.