SOFTWARE FUNCTIONAL SAFETY ASSURANCE SPECIALIST (ISO-26262) – Member of Technical Staff

Location – US, Remote

Security and Citizenship Clearance Required

ABOUT WIND RIVER

Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems. For more than four decades, the company has been an innovator and pioneer, powering billions of systems that require the highest levels of security, safety, and reliability. 

 Wind River helps customers across automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications industries solve complex technology challenges on their journey toward the new intelligent machine economy. The company’s software powers generation after generation of the safest, most secure systems in the world. Examples include playing a key role in NASA space missions — such as Artemis I, the James Webb Space Telescope, and multiple Mars rovers — and in recent 5G milestones — including the world’s first successful 5G data session with Verizon and in building one of the largest Open RAN networks in the world with Vodafone.

 The company has received industry recognition for its technology innovation and leadership, and for its workplace culture, including global Great Place to Work certification and being named a “Top Workplace” for ten consecutive years. If you want to be part of a unique culture where the lived experience is based on our cultural attributes of growth mindset, customer focus, and diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging, come to join us and help advance the future software-defined world. 

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

Wind River is seeking a Software Functional Safety Specialist to join the Certification Office within the Edge Systems product engineering team. This position requires proven skills software development compliant to ISO-26262, as well as excellent oral and written communication skills.

ABOUT YOU

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain safety and quality related plans & processes (compliant to ISO-26262, ASPICE3.1/4.0, IATF16949) to support the execution of the software development lifecycle activities for Wind River’s safety critical products.
• Train and mentor software engineering teams to effectively execute planned safety lifecycle activities.
• Actively participate with engineering teams to improve Wind River’s development lifecycle process and tools.
• Perform change impact analysis and create Safety Plans for ASIL B/D projects.
• Coordinate safety and quality related software development lifecycle activities with Product Management, Field Engineering, Product Development, SQA and Security teams.
• Complete production software release for safety related software projects.
• Perform software safety analysis to a.) Confirm safety-related part of the SW and b.) Support specification & verification of safety measures.
• Perform reviews to find non-compliance and gaps and maintain review checklist.

Qualifications and Skills

• BSc degree in an analytical or technical discipline.
• 8+ years of experience in the development of safety critical software including safety engineering for planning, coordinating, executing safety lifecycle.
• Specialist knowledge of concepts and importance of baselines, traceability, reproducibility.
• Specialist knowledge of safety analysis methods (e.g. FTA, FMEA, STPA) in a SW context.
• Ability to plan and estimate activities and deliverables of the safety lifecycle.
• Ability to lead other disciplines to complete safety lifecycle activities effectively.
• Strong communications skills written and verbal.
• Within a safety-critical environment you’ve:
  • Collaborated with SW tools/process teams and wider engineering organization stakeholders.
  • Configured and used CI/CD pipelines, tools, and infrastructure.
  • Developed procedures for software tools, infrastructure configuration and use.
• You have experience:
  • Conducting safety analysis using tools such as Excel, Medini Analyze, Fault Tree+, PLATO.
  • Developing, analyzing and managing requirements in RQM or ALMs such as Polarion, CodeBeamer, Jama, Doors.
  • Developing embedded software products in an AGILE environment using tools such as Jira / Confluence, git.
  • With safety qualification of software tools and code libraries.
  • Using CI/CD tools (e.g. Jenkins, GitLabCI, Azure Pipelines, CircleCI, TeamCity…).
  • Using embedded RTOS such as VxWorks or similar.

BENEFITS 

• Flexible home office! We offer the flexibility of a hybrid work schedule or 100% remote
• Named Top Workplace for the 8th year in a row
• Wind River’s commitment to DEIB
• 100% Employee covered Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance*
• Flexible Time Off policy* + 12 observed Holidays
• 401K with company match
• Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Wellness Benefits through Unmind

Compensation                

The annual base salary range for this role’s listed grade level is currently $130,000 to $170,000 plus a bonus for Colorado, New York, and New Jersey residents, and $146,000 to $195,000 plus a bonus for SF Bay Area, Greater Seattle, NYC, and Washington, DC, residents. Salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of the education, experience, knowledge, skills, location, and abilities of the applicant, and equity with other team members. Employees in this role are also eligible for the following benefits in accordance with the terms of the Company's plans: health, dental, vision insurance, life insurance, flex time off, eligibility to enroll in 401k, and 12 paid holidays.

OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY 

Wind River is committed to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social, or ethnic origin, age, physical, mental, or sensory disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, HIV status, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status including pregnancy, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.  Wind River will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on these characteristics. 

To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com. 

APPLICANT PRIVACY NOTICE:                

Your privacy is of the utmost importance to us. At Wind River, we strictly adhere to all applicable data privacy laws. Please review Wind River's Applicant Privacy Notice, which can be found here.                    

Security Clearance Requirements   

Successful candidates must engage in a security clearance process in regards to their citizenship in order to perform fundamental job duties, as per applicable law. In particular, candidates with certain citizenship may not be able to perform such fundamental job duties. Currently, this includes citizens of the following countries: Belarus; Burma; China; Cuba; Iran; North Korea; Syria; Venezuela; Afghanistan; Cambodia; Central African Republic; Cyprus; Democratic Republic of Congo; Ethiopia; Eritrea; Haiti; Iraq; Lebanon; Libya; Russia; Somalia; South Sudan; Sudan; Zimbabwe. The security clearance process may take a significant amount of time to complete, and any offer of employment will be contingent on the candidate's legal ability to perform the fundamental job duties. Wind River is committed to meeting its obligations to candidates under applicable human rights law and privacy law in this regard.   

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