Principal Engineer/Scientist, FAA Flight and System Safety

Job overview

The Principal Engineer/Scientist, FAA Flight and System Safety role is onsite in Huntsville, AL; compensation is not specified. The position supports the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST), whose work includes licensing and public-safety decisions for commercial space activities. This role leads complex flight-safety and system-safety analyses, developing technically sound assessments, processes, reports, and tools that help AST evaluate launch and reentry risks and make informed safety decisions.

What you'll do

• Lead complex technical analyses and develop processes, reports, and tools
• perform and direct flight-safety analyses, including trajectory analysis, abort-rule development, malfunction and explosion modeling, debris and toxic dispersion, exposure, hazard areas, and risk metrics
• conduct system-safety and reliability analyses
• produce independent consequence assessments
• develop modeling concepts and computational tools
• support regulatory technical rationale
• mentor engineers and analysts and review their work.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

principal engineer/scientist

flight safety

system safety

faa ast

commercial space

risk analysis

huntsville al

mission driven research

secret clearance preferred

full-time

onsite

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Supports FAA commercial space transportation safety; active Secret clearance strongly preferred and required for select hires.

About the employer

Mission Driven Research is hiring for this role. Industry: Engineering Services. Sector: 54.