Job Description: DO-254 Hardware Process & Certification Expert

Job Summary

We are seeking a candidate with strong knowledge of RTCA/DO-254 and the hardware design lifecycle to develop, review, and update engineering standards, procedures, and work instructions. The candidate will assess existing processes, perform gap analysis, and ensure alignment with DO-254 requirements and certification objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Standards Development: Develop, review, and update hardware engineering standards, procedures, templates, and work instructions aligned with DO-254 and the hardware design lifecycle.
• Process Assessment: Understand existing hardware development and actuation processes, map workflows, identify gaps, and recommend improvements.
• Gap Analysis: Assess existing processes and documentation against DO-254 requirements and prepare compliance reports and corrective action plans.
• Hardware Design Lifecycle: Ensure process alignment across planning, requirements capture, design, implementation, verification, and certification activities.




• Configuration Management: Define and maintain processes for baselines, version control, change management, configuration status accounting, and traceability.
• Process Assurance: Establish and maintain process assurance activities to ensure adherence to approved standards and procedures.
• Verification and Design Assurance: Ensure verification methods, design reviews, requirements traceability, and compliance evidence align with DO-254 objectives and applicable assurance levels.
• FPGA Design Understanding: Understand FPGA development workflows, including RTL design, simulation, synthesis, implementation, timing analysis, and verification.
• Technical Documentation: Prepare transparent and structured standards, work instructions, compliance matrices, gap analysis reports, and process improvement plans.
• Stakeholder Coordination: Collaborate with hardware design, FPGA, verification, quality, configuration management, a

📌 Hardware Design Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 ALTEN India
📍 Bengaluru