Software Safety & Assurance Engineer

aptresearch; Virginia (MN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

APT Research is hiring a Software Assurance Engineer for the SMAS III contract to support NASA Safety & Mission Assurance at Wallops Flight Facility. The role focuses on software safety engineering, hazard analyses, and reviews of software processes for commercial launch programs.

Responsibilities include compliance verification, hazard analyses, lifecycle oversight, and maintaining traceability between requirements and tests.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.
• Seven years of related experience.
• Knowledge of NASA software engineering standards and directives (NPR 7150.2, NASA-STD-8739.8).
• Active DOD clearance required.
• Software safety criticality assessment methodologies.
• Hazard analysis techniques and risk assessment frameworks.
• Software development lifecycle (SDLC) processes and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide software assurance and safety engineering support for NASA mission and project software.
• Support compliance verification, hazard analysis, and lifecycle oversight per NASA standards.
• Classify software and assess criticality using NASA requirements.
• Develop and maintain software assurance plans, hazard analyses, and risk assessments.
• Perform analyses for safety-critical systems, including code coverage and static analysis verification.
• Maintain traceability between requirements, design, implementation, tests, and hazard analyses.
• Conduct process audits for compliance with NASA and safety-critical standards.
• Analyze test plans and witness safety-critical tests; monitor integration and test sufficiency.
• Track non-conformances and perform root cause analysis.

Skills

Software safety

Hazard analysis

NPR 7150.2

NASA-STD 8739.8

Traceability

Process audits

SDLC knowledge

Requirements analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Job description

APT Research is hiring a Software Assurance Engineer for the SMAS III contract to support NASA Safety & Mission Assurance at Wallops Flight Facility. The role focuses on software safety engineering, hazard analyses, and reviews of software processes for commercial launch programs.

Responsibilities include compliance verification, hazard analyses, lifecycle oversight, and maintaining traceability between requirements and tests.