1 day ago
Overland Park, KS, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$131k - $221k/yr
Responsibilities
- Serve as the technical focal point for system safety and software assurance across products, projects, and bids.
- Lead safety and software assurance activities throughout the product lifecycle, including requirements, architecture, verification, compliance evidence, reviews, audits, release readiness, and risk resolution.
- Design, develop, integrate, verify, and support complex embedded software in C and C++ across RTOS, Linux/Unix, and Windows environments.
- Resolve complex issues involving software architecture, hardware/software interfaces, timing, performance, safety, cybersecurity, and compliance.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering, quality, cybersecurity, verification, and program teams around technical activities, risks, schedules, and approval requirements.
- Mentor engineers and improve software development, assurance, technical review, evidence, and engineering practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline, with 8+ years of progressively responsible engineering experience.
- At least 5 years performing or leading system safety or software assurance activities for air traffic management, aviation, or similarly complex safety-related systems.
- At least 5 years of embedded software development in RTOS environments using C and C++, microprocessor-based systems, and hardware/software integration.
- Advanced knowledge of DO-278A/ED-109A and relevant ED-153 or MIL-STD-882 standards; experience with DO-178B/C or ARP4761 may also be considered.
- Experience evaluating safety and assurance requirements, developing or reviewing compliance evidence, performing system safety analysis, and managing traceability, configuration, defects, reviews, and verification.
- Demonstrated technical leadership, autonomy, complex issue resolution, software change-impact assessment, multidisciplinary guidance, written communication, stakeholder engagement, and mentoring.
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Experience leading FAA, customer, or approval-authority safety and software assurance reviews or audits, including Department of Defense or FAA programs.
- Experience with NAVAIDs such as ILS, DME, TACAN, or VOR, non-radar surveillance such as ADS-B, and related hardware/software assurance interfaces including DO-254.
- Experience with Digital Signal Processor development, Linux kernel modification or administration, cybersecurity assessments, or Windows application development using Microsoft Visual Studio C++.
- Proficiency with DOORS, Jira, Thales engineering tools, Chorus processes, and product lifecycle practices; additional language capabilities are preferred.
- Must be a U.S. Person or otherwise authorized or eligible to access technology and technical data controlled under ITAR and/or EAR.
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer at the time of hire.
Benefits
- Hybrid position based primarily in the Overland Park, Kansas office, approximately 45% part-time salaried, with a Monday–Thursday 9/80 or 5/40 schedule and less than 10% annual domestic and international travel.
- Benefits for eligible full-time employees working 30 or more hours per week include health, dental, vision, FSA/HSA, life, AD&D, critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident, legal, identity theft, and pet insurance.
- Retirement savings plan begins after 30 days and includes a company contribution and match with no vesting period.
- Company-paid holidays, paid time off, life insurance, disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Plan, and a well-being program.
About Thales
Thales designs and sells defense, aerospace, space, and digital identity/cybersecurity systems to governments, armed forces, infrastructure operators, and enterprises. Its portfolio spans avionics, radars and sensors, satellites, air traffic management, secure communications, and cybersecurity and identity solutions (bolstered by the 2019 Gemalto acquisition). Headquartered in Meudon, France, Thales is publicly traded on Euronext Paris (HO) and reported €20.6 billion in sales in 2024.