Senior Director, Customer Data Services – Analytics
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Director, Safety Critical Software
Forterra
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • Maryland • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $180,000 - $250,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Lead design and development of safety-critical software complying with applicable standards and focus on software architectures that are robust, reliable and fault-tolerant.
- Build, mentor, and lead a team of safety-critical software engineers, fostering a culture of rigor, accountability, and innovation.
- Lead software development activities such as sprint planning, task delegation, roadmap refinement and identifying markers of success.
- Collaborate with engineers from other cross-functional groups such as systems, safety and test to ensure product and program level needs are met.
- Manage software development throughout the development cycle, from collecting feature requests to their final delivery via thorough testing and verification activities.
- Ensure development of safety-critical embedded software in C/C++ and model-based safety-certifiable tools, establishing best practices and reviewing critical implementations when needed.
- Lead the development of software safety artifacts and required documentation to provide evidence of rigor in accordance with relevant standards.
- Define and enforce software development processes aligned with ISO-26262, IEC-61508, DO-178, and other relevant standards.
- Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for software requirements, architecture and design decisions to ensure compliance with safety software development processes.
- Lead software certification efforts and serve as the primary interface with external assessors, auditors, and regulatory bodies.
Requirements
- Proven leadership experience building and managing software teams in safety-critical domains.
- Strong technical credibility in embedded and real-time systems, able to review designs and guide architectural decisions.
- Deep knowledge of safety standards such as ISO-26262, IEC-61508, DO-178, or MIL-STD-882, with experience driving certification efforts.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence executives and inspire engineers.
- Track record of delivering complex, certified software systems in automotive, aerospace, medical, or similar industries.
Benefits
- Premium Healthcare Benefits: Three plan options, including an HSA-eligible plan, with Forterra covering 80% of the plan premium for you and your dependents.
- Basic Life/AD&D, short and long-term disability insurance plans 100% covered by Forterra, plus the option to purchase additional life insurance for you and your dependents.
- Extremely generous company holiday calendar including a winter break in December.
- Competitive paid time off (PTO) offering 20 days accrued per year.
- A minimum of 7 weeks fully paid parental leave for birth/adoption.
- A $9k annual tuition reimbursement or professional development stipend.
- Fully stocked beverage refrigerators with all the Celsius your little heart desires.
- 401(k) retirement savings plan, including traditional, Roth 401(k), and after-tax deferral with company match up to 4%.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
CC++embedded softwarereal-time systemssoftware architecturesafety-critical softwaremodel-based toolssoftware testingsoftware verificationsoftware certification
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringcommunicationcollaborationaccountabilityinnovationinfluenceteam managementtask delegationroadmap refinement
Certifications
ISO-26262IEC-61508DO-178MIL-STD-882
