SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIREMENTS

Successful candidates must engage in a security clearance process in regard to their citizenship in order to perform fundamental job duties, as per applicable law. In particular, candidates with certain citizenship may not be able to perform such fundamental job duties. Currently, this includes citizens of the following countries: Belarus; Burma; China; Cuba; Iran; North Korea; Syria; Venezuela; Afghanistan; Cambodia; Central African Republic; Cyprus; Democratic Republic of Congo; Ethiopia; Eritrea; Haiti; Iraq; Lebanon; Libya; Russia; Somalia; South Sudan; Sudan; Zimbabwe. The security clearance process may take a significant amount of time to complete, and any offer of employment will be contingent on the candidate’s legal ability to perform the fundamental job duties. Wind River is committed to meeting its obligations to candidates under applicable human rights law and privacy law in this regard.

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YOUR ROLE

As a Safety Expert on our team, you’ll join our certification office team to create/update and maintain plans & processes to support the execution of the safety lifecycle activities for Wind River’s safety critical products. The safety expert will also train, mentor and work with the teams for the execution of the planned safety lifecycle activities.
As part of continuous improvement, the safety engineer will also participate in defining requirements or suggesting improvements to Wind River’s development lifecycle process and tools.
The plans & processes you develop will accelerate WindRiver’s and its customer’s development of cloud and embedded connected intelligent systems. Your contribution will help develop safety critical products for avionics systems, autonomous cars, warehouse robots, medical devices, and rail.

Key skills and competencies for succeeding in this role are:

• Solid experience with safety-critical software development and automotive software design, following plans & procedures to comply with functional safety standards (e.g. ISO 26262, IEC 61508, Automotive SPICE), completed or greatly contributed to release of an ASIL C or higher project.
• Responsible for leading development, implementation, maintenance of functional safety processes.
• Perform reviews and identified non-compliance / gaps, from a review checklist and from sheer knowledge of a topic.
• Develop and document safety requirements collaborated with other teams to ensure safety requirements are met.
• Troubleshoot and resolve safety-related issues.
• Analyze safety-critical software development, automotive system design, and functional safety assessments.
• Train, Mentor & Coordinate safety lifecycle activities, for ASIL C or higher projects, with other disciplines (e.g. Product, System, HW, SW, V&V, CM, QA, Security…), providing technical support and guidance to team members
• This important role requires a thorough understanding of functional safety standards (e.g. ISO 26262, IEC 61508, and Automotive SPICE) and their application to automotive products and systems, as well as the ability to develop and implement safety-critical design processes.
• 12+ years total experience in safety critical systems, with 6+ years in safety engineering for planning, coordinating and supporting or performing safety lifecycle activities
• Ability to lead other disciplines in the completion of safety lifecycle activities
• Advanced knowledge of the concepts and importance of baselines, traceability, reproducibility
• Advanced knowledge of safety analysis methodologies (e.g. FTA, FMEA, STPA), especially in a SW context
• Ability to plan and estimate activities and deliverables of the safety lifecycle
• Must be legally able to work in Canada without requirement for any type of visa sponsorship or transfer now AND any time in the future