Mission Critical Software Assurance Engineer

Avel Technologies; Toulouse; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Avel Technologies seeks a Software Design Assurance Engineer to strengthen our Defence and Critical Systems team. You will ensure assurance, quality, and compliance for mission-critical software in defence applications, interfacing across software development, systems, verification, quality, and suppliers.

Work on embedded real-time software, focusing on safety, cybersecurity, configuration control, and lifecycle assurance.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in critical software development, software quality assurance, software design assurance, verification and validation, or certification-oriented software activities.
• Knowledge of embedded software lifecycles and requirements engineering, software architecture, design, implementation, integration, verification, and release processes.
• English at a professional level; French or another European language is considered an advantage.
• Experience in regulated or safety-critical environments such as defence, aerospace, avionics, space, railway, automotive safety, naval systems, or other mission-critical domains.

Responsibilities

• Define, maintain, and support software assurance plans, certification plans, quality plans, and compliance documentation for defence software projects.
• Review software lifecycle data, including requirements, architecture, design specifications, source code evidence, verification procedures, validation results, traceability matrices, anomaly reports, and release documentation.
• Assess software development activities against applicable standards, customer requirements, internal processes, and project assurance objectives.
• Provide a critical technical review of embedded software architectures, real-time operating systems, multi-core processors, memory management, cache management, middleware, communication interfaces, and hardware/software integration aspects.
• Support internal and external reviews, audits, technical assessments, and customer assurance meetings.
• Verify the quality and consistency of software configuration management activities, including baselines, change control, build reproducibility, version control, release notes, and software delivery packages.
• Monitor and assess software verification and validation activities, including test strategy, test procedures, test results, coverage evidence, regression campaigns, and anomaly management.
• Support root cause analysis of software anomalies and contribute to the definition and follow-up of corrective and preventive actions.
• Follow up supplier and subcontractor software deliverables to ensure compliance with quality, assurance, configuration management, and project requirements.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of software assurance methods, checklists, templates, review practices, and lessons learned across defence and critical software projects.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Communication

Negotiation

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in CS/SE/Embedded

Tools

DOORS

Polarion

Jira

Git

SVN

Jenkins

GitLab

Enterprise Architect

Vector tools

LDRA

Cantata

SonarQube

Job description

Avel Technologies seeks a Software Design Assurance Engineer to strengthen our Defence and Critical Systems team. You will ensure assurance, quality, and compliance for mission-critical software in defence applications, interfacing across software development, systems, verification, quality, and suppliers.

Work on embedded real-time software, focusing on safety, cybersecurity, configuration control, and lifecycle assurance.