Software Safety Specialist

Mantech International Corporation
Boswell's Corner, United States of America
16 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Intermediate

Job location

Boswell's Corner, United States of America

Tech stack

Systems Engineering
Software Safety

Job description

MANTECH seeks a motivated, career and customer-oriented Software Safety Specialist to help support our current SEAL contract in Stafford, VA supporting programs under Marine Corps Systems Command (MCSC) and Portfolio Acquisition Executive Marine Corps (PAE MC). ManTech is responsible for assisting our Government customer to ensure that material solutions developed or acquired by MCSC are system engineered, integrated, interoperable, and certified to provide the warfighter with equipment required to accomplish their mission.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

  • Analyze Equipment for software safety hazards and conduct risk assessments.

  • Ensuring consistent compliance with all applicable software safety requirements during testing and fielding events.

  • Investigate mishap, property damage and near miss incidents to engage in the series of events and gain an understanding of the causes to advance towards the effective actions to mitigate or eradicate the hazards.

  • Provide recommendations regarding the areas of software system safety for acquisition areas of responsibility (e.g., safety releases, risk acceptances, regulatory guidance, etc.), and verify that DoD programs adhere to regulations and best practices such as DoDI 5000.02 and MIL-STD-882.

  • Provide independent analysis of programmatic safety efforts, ensuring efforts are integrated into overall systems engineering activities, supporting integrated logistics assessments and milestone and fielding recommendations, providing software subject matter expert (SME) review and recommendations for acquisition program safety requirements.

  • Help prepare programs for Software System Safety Technical Review Panel presentations.

Requirements

  • Bachelors Degree and at least 2 years of experience with developing complex systems. Additional 2 years of experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.

  • Experience tracking and testing requirements to adhere to software safety processes and procedures.

  • Understanding of AI enabled systems.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • DoDI 5000.88, MIL-STD-882, and IEEE STD-1228 safety guidance and best practices.

  • Experience with military vehicular platforms or with ordnance/weapons systems

  • Possession of excellent oral and written communication skills.

Security Clearance Required:

  • Must have an Active DoD Secret Clearance

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