Software Safety Engineer

Overview

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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Voice Switch and Recorder (VS&R) Program Office manages seven different programs that provide Air Traffic Control (ATC) Voice Communication Systems (VCSs) and legal recording systems enabling critical, high availability ATC communications and recordings within the FAA’s National Airspace System (NAS). The VS&R Program Office is responsible for acquisition of modern Internet Protocol (IP) Voice Communications Systems as part of the FAA’s Brand-New Air Traffic Control System (BN-ATCS), which includes development of requirements, procurement, verification, validation, testing, implementation, deployment and acceptance.

The VS&R Program Office also manages full life cycle sustainment and logistics activities for existing operational ATC VCSs that are currently in use throughout the NAS.

The Software Safety Engineer will provide onsite and hands-on ATC software safety engineering support to the FAA VS&R Program team at the William J. Hughes Technical Center for Advanced Aerospace in Egg Harbor Township, NJ. The FAA is accelerating the modernization of ATC voice communications from Analog & Digital to Internet Protocol (IP) technology. The VCS modernization includes acquisition of commercial Air-to-Ground Protocol Converters (APCs) and IP Voice Communication Systems (IP-VCSs).

The FAA will procure, test and deploy hundreds of new IP-VCSs and thousands of APCs over the next three years.

The Software Safety Engineer will support the FAA’s efforts to ensure software systems are safe and reliable by analyzing risks, reviewing safety standards, and working with FAA and vendor development, technical and engineering teams to verify safety measures. Duties include but are not limited to conducting hazard analyses, developing software safety requirements, performing testing and validation, and collaborating with other engineering teams to integrate safety throughout FAA vendors’ software development life cycles.

Activities will include creating, developing, and reviewing requirements, software design reviews, software documentation analyses, system integration, software testing, verification and validation.

Additionally, The Software Safety Engineer Will:

• Conduct Hazard identification, mitigation and risk analysis.
• Learn the FAA’s VS&R lab network capabilities, protocols, interfaces, software and hardware.
• Ensure that software and QA projects and documentation are compliant with requirements and client needs.
• Participate in Verification and Validation (V&V) of software system requirements, including traceability, and testability.
• Work in JavaScript, Python, C++ and other languages.
• Provide software integration.
• Analyze Problem Tracking Reports (PTRs).

Requires a bachelor's degree, and 6+ years of relevant experience in software engineering. The candidate must possess the following knowledge, skills, and abilities:

• Experience with safety and risks of the software.
• Experience creating, developing, and reviewing software-level requirements.
• Experience creating, developing, and reviewing software design and architecture.
• Experi…