Safety Engineer – Certified Software
Location: Troy, MI (USA) or Ottawa (Canada)
WIND RIVER
Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems. For more than four decades, the company has been an innovator and pioneer, powering billions of systems that require the highest levels of security, safety, and reliability.
Wind River helps customers across automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications industries solve complex technology challenges on their journey toward the new intelligent machine economy. Wind River’s impact spans critical infrastructure domains such as Telecommunications, including 5G; Industrial (automation, sustainable energy, robotics, mining); Connected Healthcare and Medical Devices; Automotive (connected and self-driving vehicles.
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The company has received numerous industry recognition for its technological innovation and leadership, and for its workplace culture, including global Great Place to Work certification and being named a “Top Workplace” for ten consecutive years. If you want to be part of a unique culture where the lived experience is based on our cultural attributes of growth mindset, customer-focus, and diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging, come join us and help advance the future software defined world.
ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY
Wind River Systems is seeking safety engineer join its certification office team to support the execution of the safety lifecycle activities for Wind River’s safety critical products. The safety engineer will also train, mentor and work with the teams for the execution of the planned safety lifecycle activities.
As part of continuous improvement, the safety engineer will also participate in defining requirements or suggesting improvements to Wind River’s development lifecycle process and tools or plans & processes.
The projects you support will accelerate Wind River and our customer’s development of cloud and embedded connected intelligent systems. Your contribution will help develop safety critical products for avionics systems, autonomous cars, warehouse robots, medical devices, and rail.
Your background:
Solid experience with safety-critical software development and automotive software design, following plans & procedures to comply with functional safety standards (e.g. ISO 26262, IEC 61508, and Automotive SPICE) for the release of an ASIL C/D project, preferred
- Responsible for leading the development, implementation, and maintenance of functional safety processes, preferred
- Performed reviews and identified non-compliance / gaps, from a review checklist and from sheer knowledge of a topic, preferred
- Developed and documented safety requirements collaborated with other teams to ensure safety requirements are met, preferred
- Troubleshooted and resolved safety-related issues, preferred
- Analyzed safety-critical software development, automotive system design, and functional safety assessments, preferred
- Ensured compliance of software design and development processes with other safety critical standards (EN 50128, DO-178C…)
- Supported / Performed safety analysis at the SW level to
- Confirm safety-related part of the SW
- Support specification & verification of safety measures
- Monitored safety-related performance metrics, developed and documented safety plans, and safety-related design reviews
- Trained, Mentored & worked with project teams for the execution of safety-critical lifecycle activities, providing technical support and guidance to team members
- Prepared and presented safety-related reports and presentations
- Monitored safety-related trends and technologies
Qualification / Skills
- This important role requires a thorough understanding of functional safety standards (e.g. ISO 26262, IEC 61508, and Automotive SPICE) and their application to automotive products and systems, as well as the ability to develop and implement safety-critical design processes.
- 8+ years total experience in safety critical systems, with 3+ years in safety engineering for coordinating and supporting or performing safety lifecycle activities
- Good knowledge of the concepts and importance of baselines, traceability, reproducibility
- Ability to work with other disciplines in the completion of safety lifecycle activities
- Good knowledge of safety analysis methodologies (e.g. FTA, FMEA, STPA), especially in a SW context is definitely a plus
- Must be legally able to work in either US or Canada without requirement for any type of visa sponsorship/transfer now or at any time in the future.
Assets
- Within a safety-critical environment you’ve
- Created/Updated plans & procedures to comply to functional safety standards (e.g. ISO 26262, IEC 61508, and Automotive SPICE)
- Collaborated with software tools and process development teams and with stakeholders in the wider engineering organization.
- Created procedures for software tools and infrastructure configuration
- Experience using
- Process, Safety lifecycle and analysis tools (e.g. Stages, Excel, Medini Analyze, Fault Tree+, PLATO)
- ALM and requirements tools such as Polarion, CodeBeamer, Jama, Doors
- Jira / Confluence, git
- Experience with
- SW tools and code libraries qualification
- CI/CD tools (e.g. Jenkins, GitLabCI, Azure Pipelines, CircleCI, TeamCity…)
- Knowledge of
- VxWorks or other embedded RTOS
OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY
Wind River is committed to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social, or ethnic origin, age, physical, mental, or sensory disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, HIV status, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status including pregnancy, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Wind River will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on these characteristics.
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