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WHY WE NEED YOU

Support with Software Assurance activities and Safety analyses according to the System Safety Engineering lifecycle to build world’s first hyperloop.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Participate in a portfolio of engineering developments and providing assurance of engineering activities on safety-related and safety-critical systems/products
• Support the build-up of system/product safety cases by providing all required software safety and software assurance evidences.
• Work in a highly agile environment with multi-disciplinary teams consisting of engineers, applied scientists to make transportation safer, cheaper and better
• Collaborate with the internal Engineering, Procurement, Quality, Certification & Regulatory Compliance teams, and external vendors, advisors, customers, investors as required
• Develop safety targets and safety requirements
• Execute hazard analyses to support identification of safety requirements in accordance with business standards and program/product objectives
• Provide assurance that the software, through design, development, verification and validation process, meets the Safety targets
• Act as a conduit to the software team to provide guidance and help the team members to improve their capabilities and readiness to developing highly regulated software applications
• Act as an independent member of the RAMS Engineering team to validate safety-related and safety-critical system software
• As needed, planned team tasks and provide oversight of other engineers with limited supervision from the line manager
• Document and communicate results of technical data generated to internal and external customers
• Comply with Virgin Hyperloop occupational health and safety rules whether in the office or on project sites

WHAT YOU'VE DONE

• Considered as an engineering expert in the field of safety-critical software, with strong analytical skills, naturally organized and disciplined, with attention to details
• Experience in software safety standards, such as CENELEC 50128, DO-178, ISO 26262 as well as exposure to MISRA C/C++ and PLC programming
• Exposure to ARP 4754, ARP 4761 or equivalent standards such as CENELEC 50126
• At least 5 years of experience in verifying, validating or certifying high-regulated software systems in the rail, aviation, automotive, medical or other safety regulated industries
• Embedded programming language skills: understand C/C++ particularly for use in embedded applications
• Understand the use of defensive software techniques and associated development process for development of safety-critical software.
• Experience working on baremetal, RTOS or embedded OS for deployment embedded or real-time hardware
• Understand and can adapt processes associated to regulated software development (from traditional development methodology to Agile methodology)
• Understand software development methodologies – configuration management, source code management (e.g. GIT), CI/CD, static/dynamic code analysis, software unit testing/integration frameworks
• Worked as a team player with strong interpersonal, written and oral communication skills
• Self-motivated and enthusiastic about the success of the RAMS Engineering team and VH
• Graduated in computer science or related field

NICE TO HAVE

• MS and/or PhD in computer science or a related field

WHY VIRGIN HYPERLOOP

• Our Benefits: medical (including infertility & mental health), dental, vision, life, FSA, HSA, 401k, and more 
• Your Wellbeing: flexible work schedules, unlimited PTO, and 16 weeks of paid parental leave