About Volant Partners

Volant Partners provides business and engineering consulting services to companies across the United States. We thrive by solving complex problems with a focus on regulated industries. We best serve our customers by attracting and retaining the very best consultants. Consequently, we have structured ourselves as an employee-owned company. Volant Partners was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Job Description

Volant Partners, Inc is seeking an Advisory Systems Safety Engineer to assist our clients with their full product lifecycle system safety needs. Responsibilities will vary, but the selected candidate will contribute to and/or lead safety analyses throughout the design process, perform safety analyses (FHA, FMEA/FMECA, FTA, etc), lead safety verification activities, and communicate results and progress as needed. A solid understanding of various systems safety products and how they relate to the development, design, and verification of the product is essential to succeed in this role. In addition, the ideal candidate will exhibit knowledge in areas of requirements management, technical project management, systems architecture design, integration, verification, and technical issue resolution. As subject matter experts, selected candidates will use their depth of systems safety engineering knowledge to perform these tasks and introduce best practices into our clients. Successful candidates will be self-starters and decision makers that are comfortable in new situations where success is dependent on quickly understanding client challenges and addressing them while utilizing industry best practices.

This individual must have excellent communication skills (written, verbal, and presentation) and be able to communicate effectively with different engineering disciplines and project and client leadership.

This position will be a hybrid of remote (working from home) and onsite work. We are only seeking candidates in the greater Seattle area.

Typical Responsibilities

• Define Systems safety framework and deliverables
• Develop safety products, notably Functional Hazard Assessments (FHA), FMEAs or FMECAs, and Fault Tree Analyses (FTA)
• Requirement elicitation, decomposition, allocation, and traceability
• Lead and manage criteria for design discussions, project reviews, gate reviews, etc
• Integration and verification activities
• Develop operational procedures and processes improvement
• Collaborate with systems engineers and review product requirements
• Coordinate, lead and manage criteria for design discussions, project reviews, gate reviews, etc.
• May lead and mentor junior engineers

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's or Master's degree in engineering, mathematics, physics, computer science or related technical course of study

Minimum of 8+ years of en