Lead Nuclear Surety Software Engineer

Title Lead Nuclear Surety Software Engineer

• Design and execute tests to verify real-time requirements of embedded software and to verify that software meets requirements
• Use static, dynamic, and complexity analysis software tools to identify areas of software that might require additional verification
• Conduct technical nuclear surety analyses on software and field-programmable gate arrays to obtain and maintain nuclear certification and monitor for compliance with applicable DoD, U.S. Strategic Command, and Air Force directives, manuals, and instructions
• Develop failure mode and effects analyses, fault trees, signal path analyses, and technical risk assessments
• Ensure that maliciously altered software has not been inserted into the system and unknown content has not been introduced
• Conduct risk and vulnerability analyses to support acquisition program development
• Analyze safety/security evaluations of software design of nuclear command & control and communications subsystems
• Ensure that design and implementation comply with Air Force Manual (AFMAN) 91-119: Safety Design Criteria for Nuclear Weapon Systems Software
• Develop, review, and coordinate Nuclear Safety Analysis Reports, Nuclear Certification Plans, Software Certification Plans, and Certification Requirement Plans
• Collaborate with your team to provide technical support to the Nuclear Certification Manager on activities related to Air Force Instruction (AFI) 63-125: Nuclear Certification Program
• Present technical material to the Nuclear Surety Working Group and other Air Force review boards
• Provide direction for Nuclear Safety Design Certification compliance, including
• weapon system specifications
• weapon system architecture
• compliance documents (DoD Directives, DoD Instructions, AFIs, and AFMANs)
• integrating data into a model-based system engineering environment to produce required artifacts for nuclear certification in accordance with AFI 63-125

• You have a BS with 10 years' experience, MS with 8 years' experience, or PhD with 5 years' experience in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, with professional experience as a software developer, software engineer, or verification engineer in a team environment.
• You understand the DoD systems engineering lifecycle.
• You have experience with DoD nuclear weapon systems or civilian nuclear software systems.
• You have performed software safety analysis for nuclear operations.
• You know how to apply nuclear safety and nuclear security techniques.
• You have used DoD nuclear surety policy and processes or equivalent National Nuclear Security Administration nuclear safety policy and processes.
• You understand AFMAN 91-118, AFMAN 91-119, or other DoD or civilian standards regulating safety evaluation and design criteria for nuclear weapon systems and system software.
• You are proficient in the C and C++ software development languages.
• You have developed or analyzed embedded software built using modern real-time operating systems.
• You have developed embedded software tests and performance instrumentation and interpreted the results.

• Pass a background check and obtain and maintain a Department of Defense security clearance.
• Spend about 25% of your effort traveling to other offices, sponsor sites, conferences, and offsite meetings, with most travel within a 50-mile radius of your home location.
• Spend at least 80% of your weekly effort onsite in either our or customer facility.