Aircraft Software Safety Engineer

2 months ago


United States of America USA, India timesjobs Full time
We are pioneers. We were the first to break the sound barrier and to design the first functional jetpack. We were aboard NASAs first lunar mission and brought advanced tiltrotor systems to market. Today, we are defining the future of on-demand mobility.

At Bell, we are proud to work for an iconic company with superb talent, rapidly creating novel and coveted vertical lift experiences.

Aircraft Software Safety Engineer


The Aircraft Software Safety Engineer is responsible for developing, managing, and communicating the aircraft software safety methodology for a new military development program to internal and external customers through identification and analysis of software contributions to potential hazards in design, operation, and maintenance.

The position will be at the forefront of emerging system safety techniques including Model Based Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE).

Systems safety personnel with strong software backgrounds for military applications, software engineers with safety exposure and systems safety guidance, or software assurance engineers with safety expertise should apply.

This position is based at Bell Textrons Ft. Worth, TX headquarters facility.

Position Responsibilities:


Planning, defining and verifying Software System Safety requirements and Software Safety hazard analysis artifacts to ensure design integrity and safety.

Work within the engineering team to ensure air vehicle safety of flight.
Influence air vehicle design to improve system and software safety features and design
Perform air vehicle Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) efforts.

Ensure effective integration of Software System Safety Engineering within the System Safety efforts through identification and analysis of potential hazards from concept definition through development, production, and product fielding.

Develop fault management techniques to be employed by the systems complex airborne electronic hardware and software.

Perform the necessary hazard analyses to identify potentially hazardous conditions and recommend actions that would contribute to minimizing or precluding hazards.

Perform Software System Safety Hazard Analysis, develop analysis reports, provide validation/verification of requirements, and provide feedback to the program and customer.

Administer Software System Safety activities on assigned engineering design teams. Interface with the customer and teammates on software safety related issues. Monitor, investigate, and resolve issues relative to Software System Safety Engineering.
Represent Bell with military/industry at Software System Safety Working Groups and Aircraft Software Working Groups.
Review Bell and supplier submitted documents relative to Software System Safety Engineering IAW AMCOM Regulation
Review Bell and supplier derived requirements and safety requirements IAW RTCA DO-178C and RTCA DO-254 and SAE ARP4764A.
Provide guidance to Bell engineering teams and suppliers relative to Software System Safety Engineering.
Maintain and implement the Software System Safety Program Plan documented processes.

Produce software system safety contractual documentation required by military customer (for example, Identifying Hazards, Hazard Description, Risk Levels, Risk Assessments, Risk Mitigation, Residual Risk and Hazard Tracking for both software and complex/programmable hardware).

Perform software safety critical function analysis.

Provide software system safety experience to engineering and management personnel by various methods ranging from informal discussions to formal presentations.


Education and Experience:
Bachelor's Degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Math, Physics, or related Technical discipline is required.

Position Requirements:


Multiple levels of experience will be considered with at least 2 years software safety engineering experience in the aerospace industry on military applications.

Experience in development of Functional Hazard Analysis, Fault Tree Analysis, Software Failure Mode Effects and Criticality Analysis, Safety Assessment Reports and supporting safety artifacts.

Experience with quantitative reliability and maintainability analysis.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office
Demonstrated Communication Skills needed to brief top-level management, customers and/or large groups on an occasional-to-frequent basis
Experience with MIL-STD-882E System Safety Programs and risk assessment process.
Experience with SAE ARP4761 and safety aspects of SAE ARP4754A.
Experience with system safety aspects of RTCA DO-178C and/or RTCA DO-254
Experience with either software development per RTCA DO-178C, or complex/programmable hardware development per RTCA DO-254
Candidates must be eligible to obtain Security Clearance

Preferred Skills:
5 years software safety engineering experience in the aerospace industry on military applications
Aircraft system requirements development or verification experience per SAE ARP-4754A
Familiarity with Systems Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA)
Familiarity with military software system safety guidance (Joint Services Software System Safety Engineering Handbook, AMCOM Regulation
Familiarity with Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), Systems Modeling Language (SysML) experience or Model Based Safety Analysis (MBSA) experience
Familiarity with aircraft system cyber security standards and policies
Familiarity with auto-coding tools and associated safety concerns

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