Onboard Safety Critical Software Engineer

Description

The role is a senior software engineer position in the air refueling software department, working on onboard safety critical systems.

The job family is software engineering, and the work centres on safety critical airborne software development and certification.

Responsibilities

• Own the software requirements specification for onboard safety critical computing platforms built within the AR domain.
• Lead hardware/software integration testing for onboard safety critical processing units in the AR domain.
• Help develop DO-178B/C DAL A/B software for onboard processing units under the air refueling domain, and take part in verifying it through testing, reviews and analysis.
• Share responsibility with certification authorities for the software certification process, showing compliance with the RTCA DO-178B/C DAL A/B objectives.
• Lead research and technology and R&D projects that move safety critical airborne systems development and certification onto new technical frameworks.

Requirements

• Advanced knowledge of artificial intelligence technology, with demonstrated experience using AI techniques.
• Knowledge of software certification processes and regulation up to RTCA DO-178B/C DAL A/B, with demonstrated experience applying them.
• Advanced skills in C/C++ and Ada95/2012.
• Advanced knowledge of modelling languages and tools: UML, SysML, Matlab/Simulink and SCADE Suite/Display.
• Advanced knowledge of static timing analysis and optimization, plus design constraints and optimization techniques.
• Knowledge of code static analysis, including abstract-interpretation-based methods.
• Knowledge of software verification covering hardware/software integration, software integration testing, and formal review of requirements, architectures, design, source code and test case definitions and results.
• Knowledge of structural coverage analysis for DAL A/B.
• Knowledge of worst-case execution time analysis.
• Advanced knowledge of real time operating systems, partitioning architectures and the ARINC653 standard.
• Knowledge of control systems theory, with demonstrated experience.
• Knowledge of continuous integration environments and software management tools such as JIRA and GIT/Bitbucket, with demonstrated experience.
• Additional valuable skill: advanced Python and scripting.
• Additional valuable skill: demonstrated experience with AGILE frameworks.
• Additional valuable skill: knowledge of GPU technologies and GPGPU approaches.
• Additional valuable skill: knowledge of FPGA technologies, including integrating AI and computer vision algorithms into FPGAs.
• Additional valuable skill: knowledge of the current state of the art in using and certifying AI in airborne systems.
• Additional valuable skill: knowledge of synthetic data generation and visual simulation, specifically the UNREAL framework.

Conditions

Permanent contract at professional experience level.

Hybrid working where possible.

Commitment to act with integrity and awareness of compliance risks is required.

The company welcomes applications regardless of social or cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.

Benefits

• 35 working days off in total each year, including vacation and additional days off.
• Attractive salary and compensation package.
• Collective transport in some sites.
• Health insurance, employee stock options, retirement plan and study grants.
• On-site free canteen, kindergarten and medical office.
• Opportunities to join social and corporate social responsibility initiatives.
• Upskilling opportunities and development prospects in a multicultural environment.
• Special rates on products and benefits.