Full-time

System Safety Engineer

Posted by Leonardo • Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

📍 Edinburgh, Scotland 🕒 January 30, 2026

About the Role

Job Description:

Your Impact

Are you an experienced System Safety Engineer looking to apply your skills in a new and complex problem domain?

We are recruiting for a number of system safety engineers who will work on real engineering problems, ensuring our products are safe and comply with regulatory standards, whilst championing a safety culture in our projects.

What you will do as a System Safety Engineer

  • Use safety analysis skills across the full system lifecycle: from requirements analysis (including bids and contracting); through design, development; to system integration, acceptance testing, delivery and in-service support.
  • Identify hazards and investigate these using functional failure analyses and other techniques, identifying the necessary mitigations to reduce safety risks, and taking part in design trade-offs to implement them.
  • Evidence your decisions using the data available to you, through fault tree a...
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