Engineer Software Quality

Description

The aeronautics systems sector of the company is hiring an Engineer Software Quality based in Rancho Bernardo, CA.

You will define and monitor mission assurance program specifications and processes to support mission success.

You will oversee quality, risk management, safety, reliability and maintainability for program work, subcontractors and suppliers, following contract requirements. You will assess program performance and risk and decide what resources are needed for mission assurance.

Responsibilities

• Work with program and engineering management to plan program quality and set quality objectives.
• Partner with software and systems engineers to put quality standards in place and confirm they are followed.
• Observe software qualification and system acceptance tests to confirm they follow approved procedures, fully verify requirements, and track every test procedure and software anomaly to closure.
• Support AS9100D audits and audit quality systems to find nonconformances and drive corrective action.
• Run internal process evaluation audits against company standards to find deficiencies and areas to improve.
• Judge whether software suppliers have the capability and capacity to deliver purchased software at a high quality level.
• Check that corrective measures meet quality standards and that documentation meets requirements.
• Help software engineering collect and report metrics.
• Check traceability from low-level software source code up to prime system requirements.
• Review engineering artifacts for consistency, adequacy and suitability.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or another STEM field with 2 years of relevant software development or integration work experience, or a master's degree in STEM with 0 years of relevant software development integration work experience.
• You must be able to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance.
• Working knowledge of Agile software development processes.
• Working knowledge of C (or C++) and Python.
• Experience monitoring processes, collecting data, analysing it and reporting metrics.
• Experience evaluating processes and products.
• Experience with software code review.
• Quick aptitude for learning new software tools.
• Preferred: an active Secret clearance.
• Preferred: experience with IBM DOORS.
• Preferred: experience with requirement traceability.
• Preferred: experience in a software engineering environment in an engineering role, including work plan review and root cause and corrective action analysis.
• Preferred: experience with Atlassian tools such as Bitbucket, Jira and Confluence.
• Preferred: ability to work independently with all levels of management and customer representatives to solve complex problems.
• Preferred: understanding of Python libraries for data analysis and machine learning.
• Preferred: hardware engineering or hardware quality experience.
• Preferred: aircraft industry experience.
• Preferred: experience with formal software certification efforts such as DO-178, DO-254 or DO-330.
• Preferred: experience leading diverse teams through a formalized root cause and corrective action process.

Conditions

Primary level base salary range is $81,300.00 to $121,900.00. This is a general guideline, and the company sets pay based on the scope and responsibilities of the role, the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Secret clearance is required before start.

Travel is about 10% of the time.

Based in Rancho Bernardo, CA.

The application period is estimated at 20 days from the posting date, and may be shortened or extended based on business needs and candidate availability.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance may be available.
• Depending on the position, you may be eligible for overtime, shift differential and a discretionary bonus on top of base pay.
• Annual bonuses reward individual contributions and let you share in company results.
• Vice President and Director roles may be eligible for Long Term Incentives.
• Health insurance, life and disability insurance, a savings plan, company paid holidays, and paid time off for vacation or personal business.