Senior Acquisition Program Engineer - System Safety

Position Summary

Odyssey has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Acquisition Program Engineer - System Safety at Eglin AFB. You'll be the safety maestro behind some of the Air Force's most advanced weapon systems-leading tough hazard analyses, steering risk-reduction decisions, and ensuring mission-ready performance from concept to sustainment. You're the go-to expert leadership depends on when the stakes are high and the safety standards are even higher.

Responsibilities

Duties include, but not limited to:

• Lead System Safety Program activities providing senior technical guidance on hazard analysis, risk assessment, and system safety requirements.
• Oversee the development, review, and validation of system safety artifacts (e.g., SSHA, SAR, O&SHA, hazard logs, risk-tracking documentation).
• Perform high-complexity evaluations of OEM safety assessments, identifying analytical errors, validating probability models, and ensuring risks are accurately characterized-mirroring demonstrated duties such as detecting flawed OEM Risk Reduction Safety Assessments and correcting probability-based risk rankings.
• Deliver senior-level recommendations that support Air Force operational approvals, safety-policy decisions, and risk-acceptance processes.
• Provide expert safety oversight for developmental and operational test events, ensuring ground tests, flight tests, interoperability tests, and reliability tests incorporate correct safety constraints and mitigations.
• Review T&E plans, procedures, and results for safety impacts and ensure alignment with program safety objectives and Air Force standards.
• Fulfill PWS-directed security requirements, including classified-material handling, SCI product management, and vault-access operations-as reflected in documented system-safety roles.
• Maintain strict compliance with PWS security and information-protection requirements (classified product tracking, SCI event support, and secure-facility procedures).
• Advise program leadership on safety risks and requirements across technology maturation, design reviews, test readiness, fielding decisions, sustainment activities, and configuration changes.
• Represent the program office in high-visibility technical reviews, safety boards, and briefings to senior stakeholders.
• Partner with engineering, T&E organizations, configuration management, OEM partners, logistics, cybersecurity, reliability engineering, and operational units to ensure safety considerations are embedded throughout the acquisition process.
• Guide and mentor junior engineers in system-safety methodology, Air Force policy, and acquisition best practices.

Qualifications

Citizenship: Must be a US citizen

Minimum Required Qualifications

Clearance: Top Secret w/ SCI eligibility

Education: Bachelor's degree in Engineering (ABET-accredited) or closely related technical discipline

Years of Experience:10+ years of related experience

Preferred Qualifications

Clearance: Top Secret w/ SCI eligibility

Education: Advanced Degree in related technical discipline

Years of experience:15+ years of related experience

Technical Skills

• Ability to define, plan, implement, and manage comprehensive system safety programs.
• Expertise in system safety engineering methods for electronic, electro-mechanical, and mechanical armament systems.
• Knowledge of guidance and control systems, weapons fuzing, suspension and release equipment, and associated test equipment.
  Strong understanding of design requirements, hazard identification, and system safety implications.
• Ability to interpret technical requirements, specifications, and standards related to system safety, testing, operations, and logistics.
• Experience supporting test, flight, and operational readiness activities.
• Proficiency conducting or reviewing system safety analyses and supporting design trade-off decisions.
• Ability to monitor and evaluate safety-critical configuration changes.
• In-depth knowledge of DoD munitions safety regulations and approval processes (e.g., USAF Nonnuclear Munitions Safety Board, USN Weapon Systems Explosive Safety Review Board).
• Familiarity with applicable standards such as MIL-STD-1316.
• Knowledge of AFI 63-104 Aircraft Stores Compatibility Certification requirements.
• Experience developing and interpreting systems-safety-related acquisition documentation, including Systems Engineering Plans, System Safety Analyses, PESHE, and Life Cycle Sustainment Plans.

Interpersonal Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Effective collaboration in multidisciplinary IPT environments
• Ability to work independently on complex, ambiguous technical problems
• Professional judgment and decision-making in support of senior leadership

Additional Information

Location: Eglin AFB, FL

Travel: 10%

Onsite

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Company Overview

Odyssey is a world-class technical, engineering, and integration company serving the warfighting ecosystem with airborne integration, ISR, C2, and warfighter readiness capabilities. Odyssey meets the military's operational needs by integrating layered defense systems from equipment, technology, and services to data, information, and business operations. We streamline defense acquisition and sustainment, engineering the technical battlefield with domain-specific proficiency to ensure lethality. Odyssey is dedicated to excellent contract execution, peak organizational performance, and fostering a workplace built on employee care.

Odyssey is proud to live out our core values of commitment, ambition, and respect in our work and communities through OdysseyCares , a philanthropic group focused on giving back through direct donations, an employer match program, and volunteering events.

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