Description

Senior Manager - Automotive Software Safety Assurance

Location: North America, Remote

ABOUT WIND RIVER 

Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems. For more than four decades, the company has been an innovator and pioneer, powering billions of systems that require the highest levels of security, safety, and reliability.  

Wind River helps customers across automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications industries solve complex technology challenges on their journey toward the new intelligent machine economy. The company’s software powers generation after generation of the safest, most secure systems in the world.  Examples include playing a key role in NASA space missions such as Artemis I, the James Webb Space Telescope, and multiple Mars rovers. We’ve achieved recent 5G milestones including the world’s first successful 5G data session with Verizon and building one of the largest Open RAN networks in the world with Vodafone. 

The company has received industry recognition for its technology innovation and leadership, and for its workplace culture, including global Great Place to Work certification and being named a “Top Workplace” for ten consecutive years. If you want to be part of a unique culture where the lived experience is based on our cultural attributes of growth mindset, customer-focus, and diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging, come join us and help advance the future software defined world. 

What You’ll Do:

Wind River Systems is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager with experience in Automotive Software Safety Assurance according to ISO-26262 standards and best practices.  The successful candidate will manage a team to implement and ensure compliance with automotive standards within product development.

In the past you’ve:

• Managed teams implementing processes and tools for safety-critical software products
• Launched software products compliant to ISO26262 (DO178c experience would be a bonus)
• Developed, deployed process standards and audited work items according to ISO-26262 processes and at ASIL D.
• Implemented and managed development of safety critical software developed according to ISO-26262 to ASIL D.
• Participated in the full development lifecycle of ASIL B/D software products including managing customer DIAs, distributed development, SQA, requirements, architecture, safety analysis, development and verification. Understanding of the detailed differences between ASIL B and D.
• Familiar with the differences between DO178C and ISO-26262 would be a bonus.

Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of functional safety engineers, including 1-1s, team meetings, task assignments, priorities, mentoring, team development.
• Develop the process standards for ISO-26262 compliance.
• Support engineering teams with guidance, governance, interpretation of standards at detailed level.
• Participate in the development of the company safety culture.
• Lead trainings on various aspects of requirements analysis, safety culture, safety process, software quality, safety analysis.
• Work cross-functionally, and with partners to define the agile processes for future certification.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 2+ years as a people manager in a safety related software engineering development role
• 8+ years experience in automotive safety certification processes
• Experience with agile scrum, and continuous integration
• Expert in ISO-26262 standard and best practice implementation
• 6+ years experience with development of embedded software (hypervisors, RTOS, application development)
• BSc / MSc degree (Computer Science, Computer/Electronic Engineering, or equivalent technical degree).
• Experience with process (and tools) deployment in production software organization.

Qualification / Skills 

• Experience with safety critical software design, ISO-26262 methods for decomposition, ASIL determination, SEooC, re-use, software and tool qualification, development and allocation of FS requirements in SWC including RTOS.
• Experienced with tools used in embedded software development including compilers, linkers, build utilities (e.g. objdump, readelf), static analysis, MISRA, and unit test tools.
• Understanding of core functionality and application of Wind River software products including RTOS and Hypervisor.
• Proficient coding skills with C, C++, Python, Java, and shell scripting such as bash.

Assets 

• Familiarity with Continuous Integration tools (e.g. Jenkins)
• Build and regression test configuration experience with Jenkins pipeline operations

BENEFITS 

• Flexible home office! We offer the flexibility of a hybrid work schedule or 100% remote
• Named Top Workplace for the 8th year in a row
• Wind River’s commitment to DEIB
• 100% Employee covered Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance*
• Flexible Time Off policy* + 12 observed Holidays
• 401K with company match
• Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Wellness Benefits through Unmind

Compensation                
The annual base salary range for this role’s listed grade level is currently $164,000 to $215,000 plus a bonus for Colorado, New York, and New Jersey residents, and $189,000 to $250,000 plus a bonus for SF Bay Area, Greater Seattle, NYC, and Washington, DC, residents. Salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of the education, experience, knowledge, skills, location, and abilities of the applicant, and equity with other team members. Employees in this role are also eligible for the following benefits in accordance with the terms of the Company's plans: health, dental, vision insurance, life insurance, flex time off, eligibility to enroll in 401k, and 12 paid holidays.

OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY 

Wind River is committed to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social, or ethnic origin, age, physical, mental, or sensory disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, HIV status, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status including pregnancy, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.  Wind River will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on these characteristics. 

To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com. 

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