Job Description
**Description**
In support of 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.
Supported GFE projects span the International Space Station, Artemis/Orion, Gateway Lunar Outpost, Extravehicular Activity, and various other NASA initiatives. Deliverables include analysis and assessment reports, safety data package inputs, documented comments, issues, and discrepancies; inspection and review results; and analysis and recommendations provided to NASA/SAIC management through milestone and product reviews, program panels and boards, and the Certificate of Flight Readiness (CoFR) process. The role also includes drafting procedures as needed.
**Position duties include:**
+ 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.
**Qualifications**
**Education and Experience:**
Possess a 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.
**Senior Software Safety and Assurance Engineer:**
Bachelors and eight (8) years or more related experience; Masters or PhD and five (5) years or more experience.
**Training, education, and/or experience in the following areas is preferred:**
+ 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).
+ Distributed software control systems.
+ Models and simulations.
+ Fault Management.
+ UML.
+ Time Triggered Ethernet (TTE).
**Applicants with experience, knowledge, or coursework in one or more of the following areas are preferred:**
+ 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.
REQNUMBER: 2511497
SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability
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