Raytheon

Senior Software Safety Engineer

Posted on: 6 Feb 2021

Woburn, MA

Job Description

Whole Life Engineering has an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated senior level Software Safety Engineer to join our Safety Engineering Team.

Whole Life Engineering is a systems engineering organization whose main objective is to influence hardware, software, and systems throughout all phases of a systems life cycle to assure effective operation, reliability and economical ownership by the customer and end users.

As a Sr. Software Safety Engineer, you are an integral participant in the design/development process and are responsible for performing risk analyses to identify risks and influence design to eliminate or minimize safety hazards. In this role, you will work with a multi-disciplinary team responsible for software safety on a large scale, real-time Radar program. As a multi-discipline engineer, you will have influence over the system as a whole, to include software and hardware.

Specific responsibilities may include:

* Conducting Safety Analyses and documenting results (Preliminary Hazards List/Analysis, System Hazard Analysis, Hazard Tracking Logs, Functional Hazard Analysis, Fault Tree Analysis, Safety Assessment Report)
* Documenting hazards and maintain Hazard Tracking System
* Developing Software Safety Requirements and providing requirements analysis and flow-down of Safety requirements and attributes in the Dynamic Object Oriented Requirements System (DOORS)
* Performing code analyses to determine whether code has the potential to command the hardware and contribute to a hazard
* Supporting change review boards
* Participating in System Safety Working Groups and Technical Interchange Meetings
* Developing Technical Data Packages and Presentations for Safety Board Reviews
* Representing System Safety Engineering and presenting results of safety analyses at formal program design reviews
* Partner verification procedures to ensure Safety Significant requirements are tested at the proper level of rigor
* Ensuring tasks are completed on time and within budget

This position can be a grade level G09 or a grade level G10 based on the candidates qualifications as they relate to the skills, experience and responsibilities required for the position.

This position requires the eligibility to obtain a security clearance. Except in rare circumstances, only US Citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

Required Skills:

* 6+ years experience as a Software Safety Engineer, Software Engineer, System Safety Engineer, Systems Engineer or equivalent
* At a Grade G09, 4+ years of experience in the aforementioned areas along with a relevant Master's Degree may be considered for this job
* At a Grade G10, 6+ years of experience in the aforementioned areas along with a relevant Master's Degree may be considered for this job
* US Citizenship required

Desired Skills:

* Experience working with U.S. Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Air Force combat/weapon systems and Ordnance
* Understanding of Software Development Lifecycle (including Agile and/or Waterfall)
* Experience developing and verifying system or software requirements
* Use of tools, such as Dynamic Object-Oriented Requirements System (DOORS) database tool, Clearcase, Windchill Product Data Manager (PDM), Jenkins
* Experience with a wide application of technical theories and concepts related to system safety engineering and combat/weapon systems design
* Experience planning, performing analyses, and reporting results IAW MIL-STD-882
* Knowledge of MIL-HDBK-454, MIL-STD-1472, MIL-STD-1474, Missile Defense Agency Assurance Provisions (MAP), MIL-STD-464, Joint Software System Safety Committee (JSSSC) Handbook, MIL-STD-1425, and AMCOM 385-17.
* Experience Software System Safety Technical Review Panels (SSSTRP) or Software Materiel Release activities
* Ability to understand Object Oriented Programming Languages, including Ada & C++
* Experience with Earned Value (EV) Management
* Experience developing proposals and basis of estimates
* Strong communication and writing skills
* Familiarity with Microsoft Office

Required Education:
BS in a STEM discipline or BA in Mathematics, Computer Science or Physics

This job is posted internally as: Sr. Systems Engineer II / Principal Systems Engineer

Here at Raytheon Technologies, we innovate to create solutions and solve complex challenges across all domains: from land and sea to air, space, and cyberspace. In doing so, we embrace the talent, expertise and perspectives of our diverse workforce, each bringing their skills, ideas and dedication to the work we do. We pride ourselves on our commitment to our customers, industry partners and our teammates, making a positive impact not only to our business, but also in our communities where we live and work. Our constant innovation is made possible by a strong culture, investing in our people, and an unwavering vision thats shared by our employees across the globe a vision of one global team creating trusted, innovative solutions to make the world a safer place.

What We Offer: Whether youre just starting out on your career journey or are an experienced professional, we offer a robust total rewards package that goes above and beyond with compensation; healthcare, wellness, retirement and work/life benefits; career development and recognition programs. Some of the superior benefits on offer include parental (including paternal) leave, flexible work schedules, achievement awards, educational assistance and child/adult backup care.
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Raytheon

Waltham, MA

Raytheon Company develops integrated products, services, and solutions for the defense and other government markets worldwide. It operates through five segments: Integrated Defense Systems (IDS); Intelligence, Information and Services (IIS); Missile Systems (MS); Space and Airborne Systems (SAS); and Forcepoint. The IDS segment offers integrated air and missile defense; land-and sea-based radar solutions; command, control, communications, computers, cyber, and intelligence solutions; naval combat and ship electronic and sensing systems; and undersea sensing and effects solutions.

The IIS segment provides technical and professional services, such as navigation, DoD space and weather solutions, cybersecurity, analytics, training, logistics, mission support, software-based systems, automation and sustainment solutions, and air traffic management systems, as well as intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance solutions. The MS segment develops and supports weapon systems comprising missiles, smart munitions, close-in weapon systems, projectiles, kinetic kill vehicles, directed energy effectors, and combat sensor solutions.

The SAS segment provides civil and military electro-optical/infrared sensors; airborne radars for surveillance and fire control applications; lasers; precision guidance systems; signals intelligence systems; processors; electronic warfare systems; tactical and strategic communications; and space-qualified systems. The Forcepoint segment offers cyber security products that include risk adaptive data loss prevention; user and entity behavior analytics and cloud access security broker capabilities; insider threat solutions; firewall technology; cloud and on premise Web and email security; and cross domain transfer products.

Raytheon Company has a strategic agreement with AirMap to collaborate on future projects to safely integrate drones into the national airspace system. The company was founded in 1922 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

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