System Safety and Reliability Engineer

Engineer for Trust: Architecting Safe and Reliable Flight

At The ePlane Company our vision for urban air mobility rests on two pillars: safety and reliability. We are seeking a meticulous and experienced engineer to join our safety team as a technical champion for both. You will play a vital role in ensuring our aircraft is not only safe but also consistently dependable. You will play a vital role in ensuring that every flight computer sensor and communication link is not only safe but also consistently dependable. This is a critical role where your expertise will shape the core architecture of our systems embedding integrity and resilience into every component to build an aircraft worthy of absolute trust.

About The ePlane Company

The ePlane Company is at the forefront of Indias urban air mobility revolution. Incubated at IIT Madras we are a deep-tech startup dedicated to designing and building the worlds most compact electric flying taxi. Our mission is to make door-to-door flying a reality drastically reducing commute times and decongesting our cities for a cleaner greener future. Were a passionate team of engineers designers and visionaries working on cutting-edge technology and were looking for brilliant minds to help us take flight.

Roles and Responsibilities

As a System Safety and Reliability Engineer you will be a vital part of the safety team driving key technical activities and collaborating across all engineering departments. You will:

• Execute Safety & Hazard Analysis: Conduct and contribute to critical safety assessments for the team including Functional Hazard Assessments (FHA) Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and Failure Mode Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) at the aircraft level and at the system levels (focused on Avionics Flight Controls and other aircraft systems).
  
• Develop Reliability Models: Apply your subject matter expertise to construct and analyze comprehensive reliability models using techniques such as Reliability Block Diagrams (RBD) and Markov Analysis to predict system availability and MTBF.
  
• Define Technical Requirements: Play a critical role in deriving and managing the system-level safety and reliability requirements based on team analyses ensuring they are flowed down to design teams.
  
• Champion Design for Reliability (DfR): Proactively collaborate with engineering teams providing technical guidance to incorporate reliability maintainability and safety principles into the design process.
  
• Contribute to the Safety Case: Actively contribute to the development and maintenance of the overall aircraft safety case integrating reliability predictions and validation evidence to demonstrate compliance.
  
• Support Certification Efforts: Serve as a key technical point of contact within the safety team for discussions with certification authorities (like DGCA EASA) preparing documentation and presenting analyses.
  

Required Qualifications (Must-Haves)

• Experience: 5 years of hands-on experience in a system safety and/or reliability engineering role within a safety-critical industry (aviation automotive defense or space) preferably with a focus on avionics embedded systems or complex electronics.
  
• Education: Bachelors degree in Aerospace Mechanical Electrical Systems Engineering or a related technical field.
  
• Practical Safety Analysis Expertise: Non-negotiable hands-on experience executing at least one of the following core safety assessments: FMEA/FMECA FTA or FHA. Broader experience across multiple methods is highly desirable.
  
• Reliability Modeling Expertise: Demonstrable experience in reliability engineering including creating and analyzing Reliability Block Diagrams (RBDs) and Markov models.
  
• Knowledge of Safety Standards: Deep understanding of the principles and processes outlined in major safety standards such as ARP4761 / ARP4754A (Aviation) or ISO 26262 (Automotive).
  
• Systems Thinking: Strong ability to understand complex interdependent systems and to trace the propagation of failures across hardware and software boundaries.
  

Preferred Qualifications (Good-to-Haves)

• A Masters degree in a relevant engineering discipline.
  
• Direct experience in aerospace safety and reliability particularly with eVTOL UAV or Part 23/25 aircraft development.
  
• Thorough familiarity with the entire suite of aerospace development standards including DO-178C (Software) and DO-254 (Hardware).
  
• Experience with avionics data buses and communication protocols (e.g. ARINC 429 CAN Ethernet).
  
• Experience interacting with aviation certification authorities (e.g. FAA EASA DGCA).
  
• Proficiency with safety and reliability analysis software (e.g. Ansys medini analyze ReliaSoft suite (Weibull BlockSim) PTC Windchill Isograph Reliability Workbench).
  
• Experience with Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) systems.
  
• Familiarity with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and tools like SysML.
  

What We Offer

• The opportunity to work on a groundbreaking product that will redefine urban transportation.
  
• A dynamic fast-paced and collaborative work environment with a brilliant and passionate team.
  
• Competitive salary and benefits.
  
• A culture of innovation where your ideas can directly impact the future of flight.