Software Product Assurance Engineer

We are seeking an experienced Software Product Assurance Engineer to manage the quality of our space projects from a software perspective. This role is integral to the Software team, ensuring that our software products meet the highest standards of reliability, performance, and compliance with contractual requirements.

Key Responsibilities

As a Software Product Assurance (SW PA) Engineer, you will hold a crucial position within the Software Team. You will serve as the SW quality focal point for space projects, with a primary focus on the Nyx Earth project. Your duties will encompass a wide range of responsibilities, including but not limited to:

• Establishing and maintaining the project's SW PA&S requirements baseline in compliance with applicable NASA/ESA requirements and best market practices.

• Developing and implementing a SW Quality Assurance Program in accordance with NASA-STD-8739.8, intended to cover the SW quality activities across all the project lifecycle phases.

• Developing, implementing, monitoring, and reviewing SW QA plans.

• Conducting independent evaluations of software development processes to ensure compliance with organizational standards and safety requirements.

• Participating in the analysis and evaluation of software design, including change impact analysis and regression testing, particularly for COTS software.

• Overseeing and participating in verification and validation (V&V) activities according to a defined V&V plan, ensuring traceability of all requirements and exclusion of unauthorized functions.

• Supporting Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) activities, working in coordination with IV&V personnel to mitigate software risks and enhance safety and quality.

• Managing SW nonconformities, deviations, alerts, and assessing their impact.

• Contributing to the risk management process and managing SW Critical Items.

• Managing and applying SW lessons learned.

• Planning, conducting and following up on project SW audits.

• Overseeing configuration management processes to ensure alignment with approved plans, including identification, status accounting, change control, verification, and delivery.

• Ensuring software reliability and maintainability requirements are met and traceable to system requirements.

• Conducting software trade studies to ensure consideration of safety, reliability, maintainability, and quality assurance requirements.

• Supporting HSIA analysis.

• Overseeing SW integration with hardware.

In the role of SW Product Assurance Engineer ideally, you will have the following:

• A bachelor in engineering or technical sciences

• Experience in software assurance, quality assurance, or a related field, particularly within aerospace, aviation or defense industries.

• Strong analytical skills and experience with software lifecycle evaluation, configuration management, and V&V activities.

• Programming Languages: Proficiency in C/C++ and Python for software development and scripting tasks.

• Proficiency in managing non-conformances and corrective actions.

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work independently as well as part of a multidisciplinary team.

• Ability to conduct rigorous audits, evaluations, and reviews.

• Detail and solution-oriented mindset with a strong ability to work independently,

• Demonstrated ability to thrive in a team environment while exhibiting strong leadership skills,

• Working fluency in English.

Additional assets:

• Familiarity with NASA software assurance standards and requirements, especially NASA-STD-8739.8 and NASA-GB-8719.13

• Version Control Systems: Expertise in using Git for source code management. Familiarity with GitHub or GitLab for code sharing, issue tracking, collaboration, and version tracking.

• Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Experience with CI/CD pipelines to automate testing and deployment of software updates. Familiarity with tools like Jenkins or GitLab CI.

• Software Testing: Knowledge of software testing frameworks and automated testing tools (e.g. googletest, gmock).

• Static Code Analysis: Experience with tools like SonarQube or Coverity analyze code quality.

• We’re Agile - we make decisions fast whilst keeping our goals and systems in mind