Autonomy Safety-Critical Verification Engineer (Hybrid)

DCS Recruitment; England; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Professional development

Competitive salary

Job summary

DCS Recruitment in Oxfordshire is seeking a Safety-Critical Verification Engineer to join a cutting-edge engineering business delivering safety and assurance technologies for autonomous and AI-enabled systems in highly regulated environments.

The role focuses on verification, validation and certification across safety-critical software and hardware, collaborating with software, systems and safety engineers to meet programme objectives and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• Strong background in safety-critical verification and validation.
• Experience operating within regulated engineering environments.
• Understanding of software development lifecycles and verification processes.
• Experience with requirements-based testing and traceability.
• Knowledge of embedded systems and real-time software.
• Experience generating certification evidence and compliance documentation.
• Understanding of advanced testing methodologies such as automated testing and simulation-based verification.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute verification and validation strategies for safety-critical software and systems.
• Develop verification plans, test frameworks and certification evidence.
• Support software verification activities against recognised aviation and safety-critical standards.
• Perform requirements-based testing, verification and validation.
• Maintain requirements traceability and compliance throughout the development lifecycle.
• Generate certification artefacts and compliance documentation.
• Conduct integration, qualification and system-level testing.
• Work with software, systems and safety engineers to ensure programme objectives are achieved.
• Support development of assurance frameworks and verification processes.
• Contribute to certification, airworthiness and regulatory approval activities.
• Support runtime safety monitoring and fail-safe architectures for autonomous platforms.

Skills

Safety-critical V&V

Regulated environments

Requirements-based testing

Embedded systems

Real-time software

Certification evidence

Analytical problem-solving

Stakeholder engagement

Job description

DCS Recruitment in Oxfordshire is seeking a Safety-Critical Verification Engineer to join a cutting-edge engineering business delivering safety and assurance technologies for autonomous and AI-enabled systems in highly regulated environments.

The role focuses on verification, validation and certification across safety-critical software and hardware, collaborating with software, systems and safety engineers to meet programme objectives and regulatory requirements.