Design Assurance Quality Engineering Scientist
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The Design Assurance Quality Engineering Scientist supports safety-critical system development and assurance activities under DO-278A. The role tracks requirements from initial design through formal validation and verification, identifies safety-critical interfaces, and supports hazard analysis, assurance reviews, gap analysis, compliance auditing, reporting, and integration.
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Full job description
Lead safety-critical system design, development, decomposition, and tracking of safety-critical system requirements from initial design to formal validation and verification activities per DO-278A.Lead identification of safety-critical system interfaces and conduct Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA) allocations to define objectives for system safety.Identify evidence supporting the achievement DA levels identified in the FHA and map to Design Assurance objectives.Provide Design Assurance Engineering Analysis and DA Reviews support.Provide engineering services supporting Gap Analysis based on final Program Requirements Document (fPRD), Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA), and other safety artifacts.Develop DO-278A Compliance Audit, compile a Development Assurance Compliance Report, deliver synopsis of work performed and support integration.Other related functions as assigned.
How this job compares
Set against the 915 open Quality Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Texas median$85–163K/yr21 salary ranges
- US median$28–40/hr99 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 53 open Quality Engineering jobs in Texas and 915 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- Lockheed Martin6 open
- Deloitte5 open
- Johnson & Johnson3 open
- Experience
- Quality Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 4 to 9 years (638 postings).
- Education
- 408 of the 915 open Quality Engineering jobs (45%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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