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Wind River

Ontario, Canada (On-site)

Safety Expert

1 Month ago • 8 Years +

Job Summary

Job Description

Wind River is seeking a Safety Expert to join their certification office team in Ottawa, Canada. The role involves creating and maintaining plans and processes for safety lifecycle activities for safety-critical products. The Safety Expert will also train and mentor teams, identify process improvements, and troubleshoot safety-related issues. This position requires a strong understanding of functional safety standards like ISO 26262, IEC 61508, and Automotive SPICE, with a minimum of 8 years of experience in safety-critical systems and 2 years in safety engineering for planning and coordination. The role supports the development of safety-critical products for industries such as automotive, aerospace, and medical devices. Candidates must be legally able to work in Canada without any visa sponsorship requirements.

Must have:

8+ years in safety-critical systems
2+ years in safety engineering
Experience with ISO 26262, IEC 61508, Automotive SPICE
Ability to lead safety lifecycle activities
Legally able to work in Canada (no visa sponsorship)

Good to have:

Created/updated plans & procedures for functional safety standards
Collaborated with software tools and process development teams
Created procedures for software tools and infrastructure configuration
Experience with Process, Safety lifecycle and analysis tools
Experience with Software tools and code libraries qualification
CI/CD tools knowledge
VxWorks or other embedded RTOS experience

Perks:

Workplace Flexibility
Company-sponsored health, dental, and life insurance
Income protection
Matching RRSP
Vacation and time off policies
Well-being programs (Employee assistance program, Unmind)
Learning benefits (LinkedIn Learning, seminars)

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Job Details

Description

Position at Wind River

Safety Expert – Certified Software

Ottawa, Canada

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. We’ve achieved recent 5G milestones including the world’s first successful 5G data session with Verizon and 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 join us and help advance the future software defined world.

YOUR ROLE

As a Safety Expert on our team, you’ll join our certification office team to create/update and maintain plans & processes to support the execution of the safety lifecycle activities for Wind River’s safety critical products. The safety expert will also train, mentor and work with the teams for the execution of the planned safety lifecycle activities.

As part of continuous improvement, the safety engineer will also participate in defining requirements or suggesting improvements to Wind River’s development lifecycle process and tools.

The plans & processes you develop will accelerate WindRiver’s and its customer’s development of cloud and embedded connected intelligent systems. Your contribution will help develop safety critical products for avionics systems, autonomous cars, warehouse robots, medical devices, and rail.

HOW YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE

Key skills and competencies for succeeding in this role are:

Solid experience with safety-critical software development and automotive software design, following plans & procedures to comply with functional safety standards (e.g. ISO 26262, IEC 61508, Automotive SPICE), completed or greatly contributed to release of an ASIL C or higher project.
Responsible for leading development, implementation, maintenance of functional safety processes.
Perform reviews and identified non-compliance / gaps, from a review checklist and from sheer knowledge of a topic.
Develop and document safety requirements collaborated with other teams to ensure safety requirements are met.
Troubleshoot and resolve safety-related issues.
Analyze safety-critical software development, automotive system design, and functional safety assessments.
Train, Mentor & Coordinate safety lifecycle activities, for ASIL C or higher projects, with other disciplines (e.g. Product, System, HW, SW, V&V, CM, QA, Security…), providing technical support and guidance to team members
This important role requires a thorough understanding of functional safety standards (e.g. ISO 26262, IEC 61508, and Automotive SPICE) and their application to automotive products and systems, as well as the ability to develop and implement safety-critical design processes.
8+ years total experience in safety critical systems, with 2+ years in safety engineering for planning, coordinating and supporting or performing safety lifecycle activities
Ability to lead other disciplines in the completion of safety lifecycle activities
Advanced knowledge of the concepts and importance of baselines, traceability, reproducibility
Advanced knowledge of safety analysis methodologies (e.g. FTA, FMEA, STPA), especially in a SW context
Ability to plan and estimate activities and deliverables of the safety lifecycle
Must be legally able to work in Canada without requirement for any type of visa sponsorship or transfer now AND any time in the future.

Assets

Within a safety-critical environment you’ve created/updated plans & procedures to comply to functional safety standards (e.g. ISO 26262, IEC 61508, and Automotive SPICE)
Collaborated with software tools and process development teams and with stakeholders in the wider engineering organization.
Created procedures for software tools and infrastructure configuration and use
Experience using Process, Safety lifecycle and analysis tools (e.g. Stages, Excel, Medini Analyze, Fault Tree+, PLATO) ALM and requirements tools such as Polarion, CodeBeamer, Jama, Doors, Jira / Confluence, git
Experience with Software tools and code libraries qualification
CI/CD tools (e.g. Jenkins, GitLabCI, Azure Pipelines, CircleCI, TeamCity…) - Knowledge of VxWorks or other embedded RTOS

BENEFITS -

Workplace Flexibility
Company-sponsored health, dental, and life insurance.
Income protection through short and long-term disability coverage.
Matching RRSP.
Vacation and various time off policies to encourage work-life balance.
Well-being programs: Employee assistance program, mental well-being through Unmind.
Learning benefits: LinkedIn Learning subscription and seminars.

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.

“Wind River is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law”

SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIREMENTS

Successful candidates must engage in a security clearance process in regard 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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