Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is seeking a Software Safety Engineer to evaluate complex aviation systems and software designs, identify hazards, categorize risk, and establish safety requirements to ensure the safety of their revolutionary systems.
Requirements
- Must have an understanding of requirements development, system/software architecture, hardware/software design, software code implementation, test, verification, and validation
- Ability to develop, review, update and approve system safety artifacts and system safety requirements
- Experience with MIL-STD-882
- Familiar with analyses like preliminary hazard analyses, function/system/subsystem hazard analyses, fault tree analyses, software system safety analyses and/or safety assessment reports
- Familiarity with requirements development, system/software architecture, software design, software code implementation, test, and/ or verification, and validation
- Familiarity with requirements tools such as DOORS, Cameo, CPLM, Safety and Reliability tools such as PTC Windchill Quality Solutions, Agile software tools, JIRA, FISHEYE and/or Confluence
- Working knowledge of Military systems safety and process standards and their Industry equivalent such as: MIL-STD-882, DO-178B/C, DO-248, DO-254, ARP-4754, ARP-4761, MIL-HDBK-516C, etc.
Responsibilities
- Applies knowledge, methodologies, and principles of safety engineering as defined in MIL-STD-882 and software safety engineering as outlined in the Joint Software System Safety Engineering Handbook (JSSSEH).
- Evaluates complex aviation systems and software designs, design requirements, support equipment, facilities, and operations to identify hazards and respective causal factors, categorize risk, establish safety requirements for assigned systems, and determine mitigating controls to reduce risk.
- Independently analyzes and recommends safety criteria in system design, equipment, and procedures to control or eliminate hazards.
- Collaborates with various design teams in the execution of various MIL-STD-882E hazard analyses.
- Reviews and prepares engineering and technical analyses, reports, change proposals, and other technical documentation for system safety and in support of Airworthiness Certification IAW MIL-HDBK-516.
- Reviews Test Plans and Procedures for safety requirements verification and potential hazardous operations.
- Perform safety analyses in accordance with MIL-STD-882 and software safety analyses (Experience in AGILE development) in accordance with the JSSSEH.
Other
- RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available
- CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret
- TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time
- Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance; interim secret clearance is required to start.
- Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance.
