CDI - HW/MW/SW Safety-Critical Systems Architect & Technical Authority M/F

John Cockerill, catalyseur d’opportunités Animé depuis 1817 par l’esprit d’entreprendre et la soif d’innovation de son fondateur, le Groupe John Cockerill développe des solutions technologiques à large échelle pour répondre aux besoins de son temps : faciliter l’accès aux énergies bas carbone, permettre une production industrielle durable, préserver les ressources naturelles, contribuer à une mobilité plus verte, renforcer la sécurité et installer des infrastructures essentielles. Son offre aux entreprises, aux Etats et aux collectivités se traduit par des services et des équipements associés dans les secteursde l’énergie, de la défense, de l’industrie, de l’environnement, des transports et des infrastructures. Avec plus de 8 200 collaborateurs, John Cockerill a réalisé un chiffre d’affaires de 1,649 milliard d’euros en 2025 dans 27 pays, sur 5 continents.

Key objective — Own the deterministic safety-critical T1 architecture that ultimately authorises all vehicle motion.

Mission

Own the T1 architecture end to end across hardware, middleware and software. The mission is to define the safe control platform that ultimately authorises vehicle motion: safety compute, MCU/SoC, RTOS/BSP, deterministic middleware, command gate, actuator interfaces, safe-state behaviour, evidence expectations and independence from the partner UGV base.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Define the T1 reference architecture across safety compute, MCU/SoC, RTOS/BSP, deterministic middleware and safety-critical software.
• Own architectural rules for command acceptance, rejection, degradation and safe state.
• Arbitrate HW/MW/SW trade-offs against determinism, safety, cyber, maintainability and sovereignty.
• Chair T1 architecture reviews and make decisions binding for platform integration and suppliers.
• Translate safety concepts into executable architecture constraints and evidence expectations.
• Ensure strategic T1 components have fallback, substitution or controlled-interface options.

Skills

• Safety-critical HW/MW/SW architecture;
• embedded systems;
• MCU/SoC selection;
• RTOS/BSP;
• drive-by-wire;
• deterministic middleware;
• ISO 26262;
• ASIL-D discipline;
• E2E communication;
• timing analysis;
• MISRA C/C++.

Soft Skills

• Technical authority;
• cross-layer reasoning;
• defensive engineering mindset;
• supplier firmness;
• clarity under pressure;
• decision discipline.

Education & Experience

10 to 12+ years in safety-critical embedded systems, vehicle control, automotive, aerospace, robotics or comparable critical systems.

Success criteria after 12 months T1 reference architecture baselined; safety compute and RTOS/BSP strategy selected; command-gate concept documented; deterministic timing budget issued; critical partner interfaces controlled.