Certification Engineer (Simulink)

AdaCore is seeking a talented and highly-motivated Certification Engineer (Simulink) to join an international team working on the development and qualification of development tools for various domains such as aerospace, automotive, and railway.

Everything we do at AdaCore is centered around helping developers build the safest, most secure open-source software. 

For over 25 years, we've worked with global leaders across avionics, aerospace and defense industries, building tools and providing services that ease the complex and difficult process of developing high-integrity software. As the need for truly secure and reliable applications expands into industries such as automotive, medical, energy, and IOT, we’re advancing our time-tested technologies to bring expertise and services to help a whole new generation of developers.

Our 150 experts worldwide in the US (New York), France (Paris, Toulouse, Grenoble and Vannes), the UK, Estonia and Germany all play a role in developing bleeding edge technologies to meet the highest grade of software development.

Joining AdaCore is about joining a culture of innovation, openness, collaboration and dependability, which defines how we work together, with our customers and partners.

Role and responsibilities:

AdaCore, in partnership with Verocel (a company that specialises in software certification and qualification) is working on qualifying a code generator for Simulink and Stateflow to the highest level under DO-178: TQL-1.

Your responsibilities include:

• Maintaining and/or writing tests required by qualification needs;
• Maintaining and/or adapting our qualification infrastructure meant to generate qualification artefacts;
• Contributing to the production of certification and qualification artefacts under various safety standards, particularly DO-178 but also including EN 50128 and ISO 26262;
• Participating in the elaboration of certification strategies and tooling;
• Serving as a point of contact between AdaCore and certification authorities (e.g. FAA, EASA, ESA, TÜV, etc.) to support the certification evidence.

Background and skills:

Your qualification and skills must include

• Software testing or quality management experience;
• Understanding of software engineering and V-cycle software production;
• Good written and oral English;
• Attention to detail;
• Comfortable with a Unix development environment (git/svn, shell, etc.).

The following are not mandatory but are considered a plus

• Knowledge of Matlab, Simulink and Stateflow;
• Knowledge of one high-level programming language among the following: Ada or C/C++;
• Experience with build and testing infrastructure, or quality assurance;
• Basic understanding of at least one safety certification standard;
• Basic understanding of one quality management standard;
• Experience using the Python programming language in a production environment.

The position is either based in Paris or Tallinn

Beyond the job

We are looking for engineers who want their work to have a direct impact on improving the reliability, safety and security of the software that modern society has grown increasingly dependent on in an international environment.

We are looking for sales and marketing teammates to join a multi-talented staff, tenacious and creative individuals; and our HR team is committed to ensuring your tenure with AdaCore is a positive one. Our cultural diversity is one of our strengths, enabling us to operate successfully on an international scale and we celebrate it during our social events (summer meetings, activity week-ends, christmas dinner etc). 

We encourage our employees to explore their curiosity by providing them ongoing and lifelong training from their first day in AdaCore with a strong onboarding plan. As we know that juggling work and life is challenging, we offer flexibility to accommodate personal needs and work commitments.  

AdaCore offers competitive compensation, benefits and thoughtful perks. We go beyond industry standards to help keep our employees comfortable and satisfied both on and off the job, no matter where they are based.