Leidos Defense Systems Sector is seeking a Senior Software Safety Engineer to assure the safety of various programs to a variety of defense and NASA software safety standards, solving the world’s toughest security challenges for customers with “can’t fail” missions.
Requirements
- Demonstrate basic competency in real-time safety or mission critical software systems development using languages such as C, C++, or Ada
- Proven experience with software safety standards including NASA Standards NASA-STD-8739.8B, NPR 7150.2D, NASA-HDBK-4008, MIL-STD-882E, AMCOM-385-17, MIL_HDK-516C, RTCA DO-178C, or ISO 26262
- Familiarity with Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)
- Understanding systems and the results of potential system failures
- Experience with software safety on DoD and NASA programs is preferred
- Experience in civil aviation, nuclear, automotive, or medical industries will be considered
- Previous software safety project leadership is preferred
Responsibilities
- Developing software safety plans and standards
- Working with the customer system safety and software safety organizations
- Working with system safety to analyze systems for hazards
- Developing software safety requirements, ensuring the software safety requirements are implemented and tested in the software systems
- Working with suppliers to ensure supplier products and processes meet program software safety standards
- Generating software safety assessment reports
Other
- Must possess at least a Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent technical degree
- Must have 10+ years of relevant technical experience with a BS degree or 7+ years of experience with a MS degree
- Good communication skills and have proven leadership skills with the ability to affect outcomes including the ability to persuade on technical topics
- US Citizenship is required
- Candidate must possess or be able to obtain and maintain a secret clearance
