Job DescriptionBAE Systems is looking for a Software Design Quality Engineer to join our team. The successful candidate will serve as an assurance partner with engineering by influencing and providing technical guidance on design quality assurance. Through early engagement in the design and development phase, the successful candidate will influence the adoption of engineering best practices to identify and eliminate defects early in the product lifecycle. This person will ensure product designs meet customer, quality, and reliability requirements. This position will be responsible for supporting software designs and architectures for all products and may also provide some development support for software engineering teams.
A Software Design Quality Engineer will typically fulfill the following responsibilities:
- Quality Planning & Execution: Contribute to software design quality assurance project bid estimates and tailor against contract requirements to develop and execute the software design quality assurance plan.
- Requirements Validation: Ensure internal and external product requirements are understood, validated, and properly traced to design, implementation, and testing and support qualification testing inclusive of system test set-up conformity, test monitoring, and review of qualification test reports and failure investigation reports.
- Test Solution Design and Validation: Ensure test strategies/solutions are properly designed to qualify products while ensuring factory acceptance tests meet the customer intent.
- Product Factory Acceptance Test Support: Support software testing and verification including automated testing and validation procedures for software integration and modular architecture that focus on repeatability and reliability.
- Design Reviews: Participate in and influence outcome of design reviews and provide constructive design related feedback on engineering documentation including engineering models, test plans, and other development artifacts.
- Change Control: Ensure proper implementation and validation of design changes.
- APQP/AS9145: Support Advance Product Quality Planning (APQP) activities such as Software Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (SWFMEA) activities and Key Characteristic (KC) identification.
- Design Optimization: Ensure software coding standards and best practices that focus on systematic and holistic approaches to software development are utilized.
- Risk & Opportunity Management Support: Provide input to technical risk and opportunity management.
- Design Process Compliance and Continuous Improvement: Ensure compliance to design processes, collect and analyze design quality metrics, and cross-pollinate software design best practices across programs to facilitate a culture of continuous improvement.
- Mentorship: Mentor team members in design quality assurance, processes, and regulatory requirements.
Required Skills and Education- Bachelor of Science (BS) or Master of Science (MS) in a relevant technical field of study
- Capable of obtaining a U.S. Department of War (DoW) Secret security clearance
- Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with development teams and stakeholders and provide constructive feedback and mentorship to technical teams
- Ability to influence without authority
- Strong problem solving and risk management skills leveraged to ensure that the solutions meet the needs of the business and the warfighter
- Experience in software development life cycle including requirements capture and verification, design and development, and software integration and testing including understanding the purpose of tests and method to validate
- Design review experience
- Technical competency in software engineering:
- Knowledge of Software development tools, processes, and methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, Hybrid, SAFe Agile) and Software testing/approval/release processes
- Evaluate code in programming languages such as C, C++, Python, Ruby, Perl, JavaScript, etc.
Preferred Skills and Education- Bachelor of Science (BS) or Master of Science (MS) in Engineering
- Experience in model-based engineering
- Proficient in requirement management tools
- Capable of troubleshooting using engineering lab equipment
- Familiarity with DO-178
- Knowledge of military aerospace testing standards
- Experience with Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) and/or Automotive SPICE (ASPICE)
- Experience with AS9145 APQP (SWFMEA)
- Familiarity with Quality Sciences (8D/RCCA, AS9100/ISO 9001 standards)
- Experience with version control software
- Experience with JIRA or equivalent workflow management
Benefits InformationEmployee Benefits: At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. Regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week are offered: health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards. Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.
Intern Benefits: Temporary employees generally are not eligible for BAE Systems benefits, but can elect to participate in the 401(k) savings plan. Temporary employees working 20+ hours per week are eligible for medical benefits, the employee assistance program, and business travel accident insurance.
Please note: Some benefits may be different for union employees that are governed by a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) or for positions covered by a wage law called the McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract Act (SCA).
