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Our people are tenacious and specialists in their field. Most importantly, they are always looking for opportunities for improvement.\nAt Outlier, we move fast and develop ‘savvy’ but elegant solutions. We hold ourselves to our own standards of excellence that our competition is simply unable (and unwilling) to meet. We bring our true selves to work, but what binds us are our shared principles:\nOwn the Yellow Jersey: We don’t follow the competition; we set the standard of excellence required. With discipline and work ethic, we strive to be the best in the world at what we do. By prioritising quality and mission assurance, execution follows. \nCreate the Future We Want to Occupy: We invent what doesn’t exist yet, solve the hardest problems first, and do it with moral clarity and long-term vision. We do solutions not complaints, increasing productivity. We're continuously looking for opportunities to be better. \nWe Scale the Wall Together: We lean into the challenge. Every single team member takes extreme ownership and responsibility while fostering critical collaboration. We succeed together or we fail together, through a culture of trust, transparent communication, and looking out for each other. The team’s success is your success. \nSavvy Outcomes, Achieved Rapidly: We apply savvy, frugal, first-principles thinking to solve problems without ever compromising on quality. We deliver 10× the impact with less resources than anyone else. We experiment to answer unknowns and de-risk the path forward early. \n Your opportunity at Outlier\nAt Outlier, mission safety isn’t something that happens at the end of a programme. It’s part of how we design, test and fly. As a Mission Safety Engineer, you’ll help solve the complex analytical and safety challenges behind our missions, from early modelling and mission design through launch, on-orbit operations, reentry and recovery.\nYou’ll work alongside engineers across the business, developing the models, analysis and evidence we need to understand risk, make good engineering decisions and demonstrate that our missions can be flown safely.\nWe’re open to intermediate through to principal-level engineers with the scope of the role aligning with your experience. You could be developing your expertise alongside experienced engineers or taking technical ownership of major analyses and helping shape how we approach mission safety at Outlier.\nWhat you'll do\nDevelop mission safety analyses across trajectory, debris, toxic hazards, casualty expectation and probabilistic risk.\nBuild and improve the models, simulations and analytical tools that help us understand how our vehicles behave and where the real mission risks sit.\nTurn complex analysis into clear, defensible engineering evidence that supports mission approval, flight readiness and regulatory submissions.\nDevelop and verify modelling assumptions, methods and analytical outputs so our work is robust, traceable and ready for technical and regulatory review.\nSupport safety assessments and methodologies associated with FAA Part 450 and other mission approval requirements.\nWork directly with GNC, avionics, propulsion, mechanical, manufacturing and mission operations engineers to solve 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