Mantech

ManTech seeks a motivated, career and customer-oriented Junior Software Safety Specialist to join our team in Quantico, VA.

ManTech is responsible for assisting our government customer and ensuring 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.

Job Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Reviews, analyzes and prepares contractor, sub-contractor and customer software safety program documents including: risk assessment reports, preliminary hazard analyses, system software hazard analyses, hazard tracking systems and system inspection checklists.
• Reviews and analyzes program development documentation for new and ongoing programs including software design criteria, test procedures, and trade-off studies.
• Leverages specialized knowledge and expertise in embedded, real-time safety critical software, including applying scientific and engineering principles, criteria, and techniques to identify and assess a software's contribution to safety hazards, and inform the implementation of mitigations to reduce warfighter risk.
• 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 ESOH efforts, ensuring ESOH 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.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree and at least 1 year of experience with developing complex systems, including developing and debugging multi-threaded or real-time embedded software.
• Experience tracking and testing requirements to adhere to software safety processes and procedures.
• Experience with using software development environments and tools, including Eclipse, Microsoft Visual Studio, or Rational Software.
• Experience with FPGAs, PLDs, or firmware development.
• Experience with operating systems and compiler technology.

Preferred Qualifications:

• DoDI 5000.88, MIL-STD-882, and IEEE STD-1228 safety guidance and best practices.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Clearance Requirements:

• Must be a US Citizen and be able to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret Clearance prior to starting this position.

Physical Requirements:

• Sedentary work