Safety-Critical Verification Engineer - Autonomous Systems

DCS Recruitment; England; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid

Cutting-edge tech

Professional development

Industry experts

Job summary

DCS Recruitment advertises a Safety-Critical Verification Engineer role in Oxfordshire. The position is permanent and hybrid (3 days on site).

You will join an innovative engineering business developing safety and assurance technologies for autonomous and AI-enabled systems in regulated environments. You will define verification strategies, develop test frameworks and certification evidence, work with safety engineers, and contribute to airworthiness activities.

Qualifications

• Must have experience in safety-critical verification and validation.
• Experience in regulated engineering environments is required.
• Knowledge of software development lifecycles and verification processes.
• Experience with requirements-based testing and traceability.
• Understanding of embedded systems and real-time software.
• Experience generating certification evidence and compliance documentation.
• Familiarity with advanced testing methodologies (automation, simulation, fault injection).
• Strong analytical and communication skills.

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 aviation and safety-critical standards.
• Perform requirements-based testing, verification and validation.
• Maintain requirements traceability and compliance throughout the lifecycle.
• Generate certification artefacts and compliance documentation.
• Conduct integration, qualification and system-level testing.
• Collaborate with software, systems and safety engineers to meet programme objectives.
• Support assurance frameworks and verification processes development.
• Contribute to certification, airworthiness and regulatory activities.
• Support runtime safety monitoring and fail-safe architectures for autonomous platforms.

Skills

Safety-critical

Regulated env

Requirements tracing

Embedded systems

Certification evidence

Automated testing

System verification

Stakeholder comms

Fault injection

Job description

DCS Recruitment advertises a Safety-Critical Verification Engineer role in Oxfordshire. The position is permanent and hybrid (3 days on site).

You will join an innovative engineering business developing safety and assurance technologies for autonomous and AI-enabled systems in regulated environments. You will define verification strategies, develop test frameworks and certification evidence, work with safety engineers, and contribute to airworthiness activities.