DO-178C Verification Software Engineer AALTO HAPS Ltd.

Job description

Job Description:

Job Description:

We are looking for a Software Verification Engineer to join Airbus in Farnborough. You will report to the Verification Team Lead and be responsible for working in a verification team to implement DO-178C Verification and Validation activities for the Zephyr HAPS Airborne Software.

Zephyr is an ultra-light weight, solar electric aircraft which is able to fly persistently, day and night in the stratosphere, for months at a time.  The current single tail variant (Zephyr S) completed its successful maiden flight during Engineering Flight Trials (EFT) in Arizona USA in July and August 2018, achieving an endurance of 25 days, 23 hours and 57 minutes. It continues to pursue and break world records.

The successful candidate will be responsible for working in a team reviewing, verifying item high and low level requirements to ensure DO-178C compliance, participate in creating verification strategies, plans and procedures including test equipment and environments for the Zephyr Airborne Software. Additionally, perform software analysis, requirements based testing and structural coverage analysis. There will be a particular technical emphasis on the airborne software.

Tasks & Accountabilities:

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Work with a multi-disciplinary team to develop, verify and validate complex hardware/software systems.

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Review and validate item requirements of high and low level software requirements to ensure compliance to DO-178C.

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Verify and Validate full life cycle safety critical components for flight software, including Flight Mission System and Satellite Communication System.

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Perform software analysis, requirements based testing and perform structural coverage analysis of deployable software.

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Contribute to continuous improvement of processes to increase safety and efficiency.

Skills & Experience:

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Software verification experience.

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Full Life Cycle critical software complying with standards like DO-178C, ISO 26262.

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Experience in developing verification strategies and test environments including hardware in the loop.

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Experience of tool qualification ( DO-300)

Other Useful skills and experience:

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Experience in aviation, particularly flight control systems would be an advantage.

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MISRA-C coding standard, understanding C source code.

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Experience applying RTCA DO-178 preferred.

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Subversion SVN experience

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Experience of commercial tools such as provided by LRDA, Rapita, ENSCO, Vector Software for V&V activities.

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Experience with DO-254.

What Can Offer You 

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A competitive salary with annual profit share

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an ever growing list of company benefits including enhanced pay for maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave 

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Very strong, very real career development options across our transnational, market leading company.

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A hybrid working pattern of 2 to 3 days per week in the office and 2 to 3 days remotely

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Flexible hours - 37 per week with no core hours on Friday afternoons!

At AALTO , we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking.

Please let us know if you need us to make any reasonable adjustments for the selection process – you can share this with the Recruitment Business Partner who gets in touch if you are invited to interview. Examples of this may include (but is not exclusive to) accessible facilities; auxiliary aids; room layout etc. Any information disclosed will be treated in the strictest confidence.

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Company:
AALTO HAPS Limited

Employment Type:
Permanent

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Experience Level:
Professional

Job Family:
Software Engineering

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At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.