Software Safety Specialist

MANTECH seeks a motivated, career and customer-oriented Software Safety Specialist to join our team in Stafford, VA
. The Software Safety Specialist will help support our current SEAL contract supporting programs under Marine Corps Systems Command (MCSC) and Program Executive Officer Land Systems (PEO LS). Man Tech is responsible for assisting our government customer to ensure that material solutions developed or acquired by MCSC are system engineered, integrated, interoperable, and certified to provide the warfighter with equipment required to accomplish their mission.

• Analyze Equipment for software safety hazards and conduct risk assessments.
• Ensuring consistent compliance with all applicable software safety requirements during testing and fielding events.
• Investigate mishap, property damage and near miss incidents to engage in the series of events and gain an understanding of the causes to advance towards the effective actions to mitigate or eradicate the hazards.
• Provide recommendations regarding the areas of software system safety for acquisition areas of responsibility (e.g., safety releases, risk acceptances, regulatory guidance, etc.), and verify that DoD programs adhere to regulations and best practices such as DoDI 5000.02 and MIL-STD-882.
• Provide independent analysis of programmatic ESOH efforts, ensuring ESOH efforts are integrated into overall systems engineering activities, supporting integrated logistics assessments and milestone and fielding recommendations, providing software subject matter expert (SME) review and recommendations for acquisition program safety requirements.
• Help prepare programs for Software System Safety Technical Review Panel presentations.

• Bachelors Degree and at least 5 year of experience with developing complex systems, including developing and debugging multi-threaded or real-time embedded software. Additional 2 years of experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.
• Experience tracking and testing requirements to adhere to software safety processes and procedures.
• Experience with using software development environments and tools, including Eclipse, Microsoft Visual Studio, or Rational Software.
• Experience with FPGAs, PLDs, or firmware development.
• Experience with operating systems and compiler technology.

• DoDI 5000.88, MIL-STD-882, and IEEE STD-1228 safety guidance and best practices.
• Possession of excellent oral and written communication skills.

• Must have a current/active DoD Secret Clearance

• Sedentary work