Role summary
Our organization helps both established and start-ups clients to achieve their visions to impart safety inherently within their products. We assist our clients in self-certification, interacting with independent certification authority such as TUV SUD/UL or as an independent auditor of their process mandated by the standards.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development and review of system safety artifacts in accordance with ARP4761(A) and ARP4754B, including: AFHA, SFHA, PASA, PSSA, SSA, and ASA
- Conduct Common Cause Analyses (CCA): Zonal Safety Analysis (ZSA), Particular Risk Analysis (PRA), and Common Mode Analysis (CMA)
- Perform and oversee Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEAFailure Modes and Effects Analysis: a bottom-up method cataloging how components fail and what effects those failures produce. Read more), Fault Tree AnalysisA top-down deductive analysis tracing an undesired top event to combinations of lower-level faults using boolean logic. Read more (FTA), and Reliability Block Diagrams (RBD) in support of quantitative safety objectives
- Interface directly with clients, their certification delegates, and civil aviation authorities on safety substantiation matters
- Collaborate with DO-178 and DO-254 teams to ensure software and hardware development assurance is consistent with system-level safety requirements
- Support QTSI's internal methodology development, template library, and delivery playbooks
- Mentor junior safety analysts and contribute to internal knowledge-sharing
Requirements
- Minimum 3+ years of relevant system and functional safety experience
- Direct experience developing safety artifacts under ARP4761, not just reviewing them
- Proficiency in at least 3 of the following: FHA, PSSA, SSA, CCA (ZSA, PRA, CMA), FTA, FMEA/FMECA
- Working knowledge of ARP4754B and its relationship to DAL assignment and certification planning
- Strong technical writing skills; your reports speak for themselves
- Soft skills: Attention to details, Self-starter and quick learner
- Functional proficiency in English
- Experience with aircraft systems and systems engineering principles
- Exposure to DO-178C (software) or DO-254 (hardware) development assurance processes
- Familiarity with requirements management tools: IBM DOORS, Polarion, or equivalent
- Experience with safety analysis tools: Ansys Medini, CAFTA, or similar
- Familiarity with ISO 26262Road Vehicles - Functional Safety. Automotive functional safety standard defining ASILAutomotive Safety Integrity Level (A to D) under ISO 26262, derived from severity, exposure, and controllability. Read more levels and the automotive safety lifecycle. Read more functional safety application
- P.Eng. designation or equivalent professional engineering license
- Functional SafetyThe part of overall safety that depends on a system or equipment operating correctly in response to its inputs, including safe management of faults and failures. Read more EngineerAn engineer who specifies, analyzes, implements, or assesses safety functions and safety lifecycle work products. Read more (FSE) certification (TÜV or equivalent)
- Work across some of the most technically interesting aerospace programs in Canada, including eVTOL, rotorcraft, and RPAS
- Genuine ownership: your analysis drives certification outcomes
- A small team means your voice shapes how we work, not just what we deliver
- Direct exposure to QTSI leadership and a clear path to senior technical or practice lead roles as the company scales