Software Safety Engineer III

$92,000 - $148,000/Yr

Sierra Nevada Corporation - Huntsville, AL

Full-time - Mid Level

Onsite - Huntsville, AL

Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

About the position

The Software Safety Engineer III at Blue Origin plays a crucial role in ensuring the safety of rockets, ground systems, and space destinations. This position is part of the Safety, Quality, and Mission Assurance team, focusing on monitoring and assessing processes that guide design, manufacturing, and operations. The engineer will mentor others in developing safety-critical software, review safety analysis results, and champion safety within the organization, contributing to the safe development of crewed space systems.

Responsibilities

• Work with systems engineers to analyze specific causes of avionics hazards (unsafe conditions).
• Evaluate plans and life cycle data to assure process controls sufficiently reduce engineering errors that cause hazards.
• Review and approve safety requirements for Software/Complex Electronic Hardware (CEH).
• Review the risk characterization of open problems and safety risks.
• Perform compliance assessment of our system safety processes and products against safety standards including Range Safety, NASA, FAA.
• Implement software or complex electronic hardware (CEH) safety processes and identify continuous improvement opportunities.
• Train and coach engineers on software or CEH safety risk.
• Generate metrics and report on program system safety status.
• Participate in actively maintaining a healthy system safety culture.

Requirements

• Minimum of a B.Sc. degree or equivalent in software or electronic hardware engineering.
• 5+ years in work experience developing embedded software in a safety industry.
• 1+ years developing software plans or auditing compliance to a plan, process, or safety standard.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and strengthen our culture of inclusion.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Nice-to-haves

• Ability to work independently on rapid development programs.
• 5+ years software engineering experience developing embedded software in a safety industry, with 2+ of those years performing compliance audits OR developing plans to one or more standards (e.g. NPR 7150.2D, NASA-STD-8739.8A, MIL-STD-882, RCC 319-19, IEC 61508, RTCA DO-178C, IEC 61508, ISO 26262, etc.)
• Experience in software safety engineering.
• Experience assessing compliance to regulatory requirements.
• Experience with object-oriented software development, model-based engineering, and/or other formal methods.
• Software or system-level model-based development with the Unified Modeling Language (UML).
• Controls engineering using Simulink.
• Experience with MIT's System-Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA) safety process.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Short and long-term disability
• 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%
• Education Support Program
• Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays
• Discretionary bonus: Bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results.