Aerospace Engineer

**Duties**:
Applies experience and comprehensive knowledge of engineering principles, theories, and concepts applicable to aircraft systems and operational safety impact. The System Safety Integration Specialist position will be responsible to oversee the entire aircraft system and operational safety impact to help ensure that complex systems incorporated into the aircraft level system architecture meet the system safety assurance levels in accordance with the FAA's policies, guidance and airworthiness regulations.

Contacts are internal and external. Facilitates/leads cross-discipline, including across lines of business, and reviews/has communications to ensure aircraft level system safety fully encompasses compliance to meet FAA regulatory airworthiness requirements. Leads early and regularly gated multi-disciplined system safety reviews with certification engineering/design and operational groups to help assess that system safety requirements are being met.

Identifies aircraft level higher risk integration areas that need increased FAA oversight/involvement with all applicable FAA lines of business within and outside of AIR. Works closely with the assigned Program Manager (PM) to support and help proactively address system safety integration issues/challenges, such as the evaluation of human factors and flight test evaluation results against the applicant System Safety Assessments (SSAs) to validate SSA assumptions. Identifies that applicant has properly robust aircraft system development processes for System Safety Assessments (SSAs). Verifies that change impact safety assessments are comprehensive and thorough.

Work is reviewed rarely, typically through status reports and at project completion, to ensure technical compliance and alignment with the requirements of the project or other work activity. Work activities impact directly on the objectives of the organization, subdivisions and/or LOB/SOs and has an impact on the objectives of the FAA. The work affects the safety and security of customers.

Other duties as assigned.

**Requirements**:
**Conditions of Employment**:

- US Citizenship is required.
- Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- This position has a positive education requirement. Transcript(s) required.
- Employee will report to an FAA facility.
- Veterans Preference will not apply.

**Qualifications**:
**Basic Requirements**: Successful completion of a full four-year professional engineering curriculum leading to a bachelor's or higher degree in engineering in an accredited college or university. To be acceptable the curriculum must: (1) be in a school of engineering with at least one curriculum accredited by the ABET as a professional engineering curriculum; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics; OR,
- Professional registration: Current registration as a professional engineer by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico;
- Written Test: Evidence of having successfully passed the Engineer-in-Training (EIT) examination, or the written test required for professional registration, which is administered by the Boards of Engineering Examiners in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico;
- Specified academic courses: Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and in engineering that included the courses specified in the basic requirements. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of a professional engineering curriculum as described in paragraph A;
- Related curriculum: - Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in engineering technology or in an appropriate professional field, e.g., physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance.

**Specialized Experience**: In addition to the basic requirements, all applicants must demonstrate at least one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade (FV-I FG/GS-13) in the Federal government. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties o