Mission Assurance Specialty Engineer

Software Safety and Assurance Engineer

LOCATION: Houston, TX (Johnson Space Center)

JOB STATUS: Full-time

CLEARANCE: BI investigation

CERTIFICATION: N/A

TRAVEL: Limited; as needed

Must be US citizen

Astrion has an exciting opportunity for a Software Safety and Assurance Engineer to support NASA Safety and Mission Assurance (S&MA), the primary purpose of the Government-Furnished Equipment (GFE) Software Assurance Engineer position is to ensure that acquired and developed GFE software products supporting spaceflight are safe, reliable, and capable of performing their required functions.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS:

• Bachelor's or higher degree in computer science, software engineering, or computer engineering. Degrees in other engineering/ science/ technical fields will be considered with sufficient related education or experience.
  • Additional coursework beyond the requirements for a bachelor's degree (e.g., AS degree or minoring in a different area) and/or internships may be used to offset experience requirements.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS:

• The development, assurance, and certification of complex, critical computerized control systems safety for systems containing software or programmable electronics, to include implementation of technical requirements for safety. This may include NASA systems, or commercial systems (e.g., medical devices, energy, aviation).
• Understanding of NASA software engineering and software assurance requirements.
• Familiar with NASA flight certification processes, or certification processes for other industries, including safety.
• Distributed software control systems
• Models and simulations
• Fault Management
• UML
• Time Triggered Ethernet (TTE)

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ensuring that GFE software requirements, design, and products comply with NASA Flight Program and S&MA software assurance requirements.
• Assessing software development, testing, verification, process documentation, and change products to identify issues and non-compliances, and verify software and system software meets requirements.
• Analyze code to verify it is reliable, secure, and meets customer requirements (e.g., code test coverage, static analysis)
• Performing analysis to verify compliance with safety requirements, including Computer-Based Controls (e.g., SSP 50038, GP 10K), and System Safety Requirements.
• Ensuring adherence to applicable NASA standards such as NPR 7150.2 and NASA-STD-8739.8A/B.