Flight Software Verification Manager

Reliable Robotics; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Reliable Robotics in Mountain View is seeking a Flight Software Verification Manager to lead the verification of flight software to DO-178C compliant processes. You will bridge technical leadership, process compliance, and people management to ensure safety, airworthiness, and regulatory approval of our flight software products.

You will provide direction to software verification engineers, own verification efforts, and mentor teams in verification practices, tools, and DO-330 tool

Qualifications

• 7+ years experience in safety-critical software verification to achieve DO-178C objectives.
• 3+ years in a technical leadership or people management role
• Proficiency with static analysis, structural coverage tools (e.g., Rapita, VectorCAST, LDRA), configuration management tools, and embedded programming environments (C/C++)
• Experience specifying and working with a range of test environments to fulfill product and DO-178C verification objectives
• Practical experience of performing DO-178C verification analyses activities such as control and data coupling, worst case execution time etc
• Excellent documentation, collaboration, and cross-functional communication skills

Responsibilities

• Provide direction and guidance to software verification engineers.
• Own software verification efforts.
• Triage issues found during verification and coordination with relevant teams.
• Provide training and mentoring to engineers in verification processes, tools and best practices.
• Identify, evaluate, and manage the qualification of software verification tools (e.g. test automation, static analyzers, coverage tools) according to DO-330 guidelines

Skills

DO-178C verification

Leadership

Static analysis

Structural coverage tools

C/C++ embedded

Cross-functional collaboration

Tool qualification

Tools

Rapita

VectorCAST

LDRA

Test environments

Job description

We're building safety-enhancing technology for aviation that will save lives. Automated aviation systems will enable a future where air transportation is safer, more convenient and fundamentally transformative to the way goods - and eventually people - move around the planet. We are a team of mission-driven engineers with experience across aerospace, robotics and self-driving cars working to make this future a reality.

As a Flight Software Verification Manager you'll lead and grow the team responsible for performing the verification of our flight software to DO-178C compliant processes. The ideal candidate will bridge technical leadership, rigorous process compliance, and people management to guarantee the safety, airworthiness, and regulatory approval of our flight software products.

Responsibilities

• Provide direction and guidance to software verification engineers.
• Own software verification efforts.
• Triage issues found during verification and coordination with relevant teams.
• Provide training and mentoring to engineers in verification processes, tools and best practices.
• Identify, evaluate, and manage the qualification of software verification tools (e.g. test automation, static analyzers, coverage tools) according to DO-330 guidelines.

Basic Success Criteria

• 7+ years experience in safety-critical software verification to achieve DO-178C objectives.
• 3+ years in a technical leadership or people management role
• Proficiency with static analysis, structural coverage tools (e.g., Rapita, VectorCAST, LDRA), configuration management tools, and embedded programming environments (C/C++)
• Experience specifying and working with a range of test environments to fufill product and DO-178C verification objectives
• Practical experience of performing DO-178C verification analyses activities such as control and data coupling, worst case execution time etc
• Excellent documentation, collaboration, and cross-functional communication skills

Preferred Criteria

• Demonstrated success scaling teams and maturing verification processes in a high-growth environment
• Experience with tool qualification for DO-178C/DO-330
• Prior certification liaison experience, working with Certification Authorities (FAA, EASA etc).
• Experience of automation and reporting of test results and coverage

This position requires access to information that is subject to U.S. export controls. An offer of employment will be contingent upon the applicant's capacity to perform in compliance with U.S. export control laws.

All applicants are asked to provide documentation that legally establishes status as a U.S. person or non-U.S. person (and nationalities in the case of a non-U.S. person). Where the applicant is not a U.S. person, meaning not a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident, (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. * 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. * 1158, or not otherwise permitted to access the export-controlled technology without U.S. government authorization, the Company reserves the right not to apply for an export license for such applicants whose access to export-controlled technology or software source code requires authorization and may decline to proceed with the application process and any offer of employment on that basis.

At Reliable Robotics, our goal is to be a diverse and inclusive workforce. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, creed, ancestry, sex, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability or medical conditions, national origin, military or veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any other basis covered by applicable law. All employment and promotion is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

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