System Safety & Environmental Engineer

Job description

Primary Purpose of the Role:

This job description details what is expected of a LR9 Safety Engineer working in the ISR Engineering organisation. To provide safety engineering lead to programmes.

Key Responsibilities and Tasks:

· Assessment of software development processes and review of evidence that those processes have been followed
· Assessment of impact of identified software problems,
· Provide support to software architecture design and guidance on software development in accordance with software safety development standards.
· Produce safety arguments for software to support system safety cases
· Provide guidance on software development in accordance with requirements for levels of integrity/design assurance (e.g. SIL/DAL)
· Perform architectural and functional analysis of software for safety (e.g. Functional Failure Analysis)
· Derive software safety requirements and integrity/design assurance levels.
Principal Relationships:

· Report to Project Safety Manager and Project Design Authority
· Daily interaction with Safety Authority, Safety Assurance Manager and software development teams.

Skills/Experience/Qualifications Desired

· Experience of software development of safety related products (programmable elements) and in particular knowledge of the differing levels of rigour required for the requisite levels of integrity/design assurance (e.g. SIL/DAL). A good knowledge of safety analysis techniques and their application to software.
· Broad understanding of safety principles
· Knowledge of DO-178B and DO-178C, DO-254, IEC 61508, Def Stan 00-55 Issue 2 & 3 would all be useful.
· Knowledge of C/C++ essential (and ideally VHDL).
· Knowledge of static and dynamic analysis, development environments, operating systems (Windows and VxWorks), and SCADE.