Forterra is looking for a DoD System Safety Engineer to support safety design on autonomous vehicle systems, focusing on defense applications.
Requirements
- Strong record working in the field of system safety as it relates to hardware, software and system-level design
- Strong expertise with MIL-STD-882E and safety critical system design best practices
- Technical domain knowledge of autonomous vehicles or similar autonomous robotic systems
- Strong Systems Engineering fundamentals and knowledge of modern systems engineering techniques, tools and processes.
- Expertise with safety analysis techniques such as FTA, PHA, FHA, SSHA, FMEA, and FMECA
- Expertise with hazard identification, tracking, and mitigation using tools such as PHL and HTS
- Expertise evaluating software control categories and severities to identify appropriate Software Criticality Indexes (SwCI)
Responsibilities
- Work across Forterra to design safety into our autonomous vehicle systems from the ground up – focusing on defense applications which follow A MIL-STD-882E approach
- Tackle the topics of functional safety, embedded systems and software safety in a complex system environment
- Work to define safety architecture, safety concepts and derive requirements from safety analyses
- Tackle new, non-standard, cross-functional challenges for which you will have to decompose the problems on the fly and drive them to completion even in the absence of standard methods or processes
- Work with engineering teams from concept through implementation, representing the consideration of safety in the design throughout the process
- Provide technical safety leadership on elements of significant scope
- Perform systems & safety analysis activities, including on autonomy-related safety
Other
- A minimum of 8+ years of work experience as a Systems Safety engineer or related role
- Communicate design considerations and progress with respect to system safety across the engineering organization
- Communicate effectively to make recommendations and drive consensus amongst all stakeholders (executive team, product, customer, engineering, test)
- Strong communication skills and the ability to communicate complex engineering issues to a diverse team
- Flexible, adaptable mindset, open-minded: we try to solve a problem that has never been solved before. Multiple opinions exist on how to do so but nobody has the absolute truth until it is actually done: you know that, and you embrace it, you are open to multiple perspectives
