Senior Airplane Safety Engineer

Job Description

At Boeing, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. We’re committed to fostering an environment for every teammate that’s welcoming, respectful and inclusive, with great opportunity for professional growth. Find your future with us.

Boeing Brazil is seeking Senior Airplane Safety Engineer, reporting to the Safety and Airworthiness Manager, working out of the São José Dos Campos office.

The Senior Airplane Safety Engineer will be responsible for working cross functionally to ensure airplane level safety analyses are appropriately conducted. Understanding the complex integration of airplane systems, human factors, and airplane integration into the operational environment are required in this role.  The Airplane Safety deliverables directly feed airplane compliance and require an extreme attention to detail as well as a healthy engineering curiosity.

Our team works hard to build relationships with our customers across all of engineering and the programs. To do this we must be technically savvy, great communicators, and have a passion to learn more. We are involved in every aspect of designing and certifying our products and must maintain an unrelenting focus on compliance, safety, and product integrity without compromise.

If you’re ready for a challenging new role that is critical to the success of our programs then this might be the job for you. Successful candidates will be reliable, trustworthy, and accountable for delivering results. Familiarity with ARP-4754, ARP-4761, safety analysis, and hazard assessments will greatly benefit you in this role. 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Providing safety design and analysis expertise to program stakeholders and leadership.

• Validating and verifying airplane level safety requirements.

• Developing certification strategies for systems and airplane level safety issues.

• Executing airplane level threat analyses (bird strike, rotorburst, cargo fire, tire and wheel failures, etc.).

• Ensuring adequate redundancy and physical separation of critical systems.

• Leading airplane level safety analyses like Runway Excursion or Airplane Common Mode to ensure integration across multiple functional systems.

• Utilizing Model Based System Engineering tools to analyze architectures/designs and develop safety deliverables.

• Design and update safety processes according to the last industry standards, regulations, best practices, and lessons.

This position is expected to be 100% onsite.  The selected candidate will be required to work onsite at the listed location.

Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• Must have existing rights to work in Brazil.
• Must have a bachelor’s degree in engineering.
• Must be registered or eligible to register with the Engineering and Agronomy Regional Council (Conselho Regional de Engenharia e Agronomia - CREA).
• Proficient in both verbal and written communications skills in the English Language.
• Experience with safety requirements, system safety analysis such as Risk Assessments, Functional Hazard Assessments (FHA), Fault-tree Analysis (FTA), Systems Safety Assessment, and system design or system integration.

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Familiarity with FAR Part 25.1309, and industry practices like ARP 4761 & 4754.

• Familiarity working with FAA.

• Experience with certification plan.

• Experience with airplane level threat analyses (bird strike, rotor burst, cargo fire, tire and wheel failures, etc.).

Relocation: 

This position offers relocation based on candidate eligibility. 

Additional Information: 

This requisition is for a locally hired position in Brazil.  

Candidates must have current legal authorization to live and work in Brazil.  

Benefits and pay are determined at the local level and are not part of Boeing U.S. based payroll.  

Please also submit a CV or resume written in English. 

Applications for this position will be accepted through October 28th, 2025

Applications for this position will be accepted until Oct. 29, 2025

Export Control Requirements: This is not an Export Control position.

Language Requirements

English Preferred

Education

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Required

Relocation

This position offers relocation based on candidate eligibility.

Visa Sponsorship

Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.

Shift

Not a Shift Worker (Brazil)

Equal Opportunity Employer:

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not accept unlawful discrimination in our recruitment or employment practices on any grounds including but not limited to; race, color, ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military and veteran status, or other characteristics covered by applicable law.

We have teams in more than 65 countries, and each person plays a role in helping us become one of the world’s most innovative, diverse and inclusive companies. We are proud members of the Valuable 500 and welcome applications from candidates with disabilities. Applicants are encouraged to share with our recruitment team any accommodations required during the recruitment process. Accommodations may include but are not limited to: conducting interviews in accessible locations that accommodate mobility needs, encouraging candidates to bring and use any existing assistive technology such as screen readers and offering flexible interview formats such as virtual or phone interviews.

Experience Level
Individual Contributor
Contingent Upon Program Award
No, this position is not contingent upon program award

Schedule
Full time

Boeing is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.