Software Safety Engineer

Location: Troy, MI

Essential Responsibilities:

• Applies knowledge, methodologies, and principles of safety engineering Such as MIL-STD-882E, Software Safety engineering as defined in the Joint Software System Safety Engineering Handbook (JSSSEH) and/or Automotive ISO26262. 
• Reviews product systems associated support equipment and facilities, functional specifications and operations, and establishes safety requirements for assigned systems.
• Independently analyzes and recommends safety criteria in system design, equipment, and procedures to control or eliminate hazards.
• Develops requirements and designs, assess implementations for hazard and causal factors to satisfy critical system safety objectives.
• Develops and evaluates systems, associated support equipment and facilities, networks, and information systems to ensure designs meet applicable safety specifications and standards.
• Collaborate with various design teams in the execution of various MIL-STD-882E and/or ISO26262 standard hazard analyses.
• Applies engineering principles to investigate, analyze, plan, design, test, or evaluate military systems.
• 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 Software architecture, Software Designs, requirements, and interface artifacts for safety on complex hardware/ software systems
• Reviews Test Plans and Procedures for safety requirements verification and potential hazardous operations
• Ability to apply system safety engineering principles in accordance with MIL-STD-882 and ISO 26262 and analyses such as preliminary hazard analyses, function/system/subsystem hazard analyses, fault tree analyses, software system safety analyses and safety assessment reports.
• Familiar with requirements development, system/software architecture, hardware/software design, software code implementation, test, verification, and validation
• Demonstrated ability to develop, review, update and approve system safety artifacts and system safety requirements.
• Perform hardware/ software safety analysis.
• Ability to effectively communicate with all levels of leadership and customers and work independently.
• Experience developing of C/C++ embedded software artifacts.
• Experience with model-based software development techniques.

Basic Qualifications: 

• Bachelor of Science degree in: Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace/Aeronautical Engineering. Other engineering/science degrees will be considered with relevant experiences.  
• 7 years of experience Software Safety for embedded software using MIL STD 882E, ISO 26262 or equivalent standards.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze, recommend, and drive safety into system design, equipment, and procedures in order to mitigate or eliminate hazards.
• 2 years of experience developing software in C/C++.

Bonus Qualifications:

• Advanced Degree in: Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace/Aeronautical Engineering. Other engineering/science degrees will be considered with relevant experiences.  
• Familiarity with requirements tools such as Cameo, CPLM, Safety and Reliability tools such as PTC Windchill Quality Solutions, Agile software tools, JIRA, Confluence, MATLAB/Simulink/Stateflow.
• Experience working in a scaled Agile organization.
• Working knowledge of embedded software test development, and Software systems integration engineering
• Experience in Mechanical, Electrical and Software Integration
• System Safety Experience
• Experience in Defense development desired.