Software Safety & Assurance Engineer - Permanent

Job description

Safety Engineering Activities

• Perform and maintain safety assessments and analyses throughout the software lifecycle.

• Conduct and support:

  • Functional Hazard Assessments (FHA)

  • Preliminary System Safety Assessments (PSSA)

  • System Safety Assessments (SSA)

  • Hazard Analyses

  • Fault Tree Analyses (FTA)

  • Common Cause Analyses (CCA/CMA)

  • Failure Modes and Effects Analyses (FMEA/FMECA)

• Support safety requirement definition, allocation, and traceability.

• Participate in safety reviews and risk assessments.

• Support the determination and justification of Software Assurance Levels (SWAL).

Software Assurance & Compliance

• Ensure compliance with applicable aviation and ATM regulations, standards, and company processes.

• Participate in software assurance activities across development, verification, validation, release, and maintenance phases.

• Review engineering deliverables to verify compliance with applicable standards.

• Support audits, assessments, and certification activities.

• Contribute to anomaly management, change control, problem reporting, and corrective actions.

• Review software lifecycle data and evidence for certification purposes.

Certification & Quality Support

• Prepare certification documentation and compliance evidence.

• Interface with certification authorities, customers, and external stakeholders.

• Support software process improvement initiatives.

• Participate in internal and external audits.

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of engineering procedures, standards, and guidelines.

Project & Stakeholder Collaboration

• Work closely with software development, systems engineering, validation, and quality teams.

• Support project planning and certification milestones.

• Collaborate in international, multidisciplinary environments.

• Provide guidance on safety, assurance, and compliance topics.

Requirements

• University degree in:

  • Software Engineering

  • Computer Science

  • Aerospace Engineering

  • Systems Engineering

  • Safety Engineering

  • Or equivalent technical discipline.

• Minimum 3 years of experience in at least one of the following areas:

  • Software Assurance

  • Safety Engineering

  • Design Assurance

  • Software Quality Assurance

  • Certification Engineering

  • RAMS Engineering

• Knowledge of software development lifecycles.

• Understanding of safety-critical systems and regulated environments.

• Experience performing safety assessments and analyses.

• Familiarity with software verification and validation processes.

• Experience with requirements management and traceability.

Knowledge of some of the following standards is highly desirable:

• ARP4754A

• ARP4761 / ARP4761A

• DO-178C

• DO-278A

• ED-109A

• ED-153

• ED-205A

• IEC 61508

• EN 50128

• ISO 26262

Fluent in English