Safety Engineer

Expleo is a trusted partner for engineering, quality services, and digital transformation. We collaborate with world-leading aerospace manufacturers, delivering cutting-edge solutions in structural analysis, finite element modelling, numerical simulation, and certification support. At Expleo, we foster innovation, technical excellence, and professional growth, empowering our teams to shape the future of aerospace engineering.

We are seeking Safety Engineers to support the safe development and integration of future combat air capabilities for the next generation of combat aircraft.

You will work closely with systems, software and platform engineering teams to ensure safety considerations are integrated throughout the engineering lifecycle, supporting the delivery of safe, certifiable and operationally effective systems.

This role offers an opportunity to influence future combat air capability through the development, integration and optimisation of advanced sensing architectures, supporting delivery across the full engineering lifecycle.

• Support safety assessment activities.

• Develop safety artefacts and engineering evidence.

• Participate in hazard identification activities.

• Support safety case development.

• Contribute to design reviews and governance activities.

• Support certification and assurance activities.

• Collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering teams.

• Produce technical reports and documentation.

• Degree qualified in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electronic Engineering or related STEM discipline.
• Applications are also welcomed from individuals with significant demonstrable experience who don’t hold formal qualifications.

• System safety engineering.

• Hazard identification and risk analysis.

• Functional Hazard Assessment (FHA).

• Preliminary System Safety Assessment (PSSA).

• System Safety Assessment (SSA).

• Safety requirements management.

• Safety case development.

• Assurance evidence generation.

• ARP4754A.

• ARP4761.

• Military airworthiness frameworks.

• Software safety.

• MBSE integration.

• Cyber and safety interactions.

• Autonomous systems assurance.

• Digital engineering environments.

• Experience supporting safety engineering activities within aerospace, defence or highly regulated industries.

• Combat air systems.

• Mission systems.

• Avionics programmes.

• Safety-critical systems.

• Right to work in the UK.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain UK Security Clearance (SC).
• Ability to satisfy customer security and export control requirements.
• Willingness to travel occasionally to customer and partner locations.

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges  
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects   
• Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses  
• Competitive company benefits
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo

• As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:
  • Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
  • Communicating and promoting vacancies
  • Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
  • Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
  • Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people

“We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age”. 

We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive