Senior Mission Software Engineer

Senior Mission Software Engineer

Company:

The Boeing Company

Job ID:

00000415940

Date Posted:

2024-03-08

Location:

USA - Tukwila, WA

Job Description Qualifications:

The Boeing Company is looking for a Senior Mission Software Engineer to join the Core Mission Software team located in Tukwila, WA.   This position will focus on supporting the Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) business organization.

You will be joining a team of software engineers from across the Boeing Enterprise who are executing best practices and developing cutting-edge software to deliver the best value to our customers and warfighters. A successful candidate will highlight their interest in, experience with, and/or eagerness to learn all phases of the software development lifecycle, and be excited to deliver a variety of high-quality, tactical mission software services to be installed on multiple airborne platforms. This software will interact with tactical subsystems, manage communications between aircraft, and/or implement business logic to execute tactical missions.

A successful candidate will be self-motivated and professional, passionate about the mission and passionate about developing modern software products by leveraging cloud-based DevSecOps environments, and will embrace continuous learning and improvement. Experience with embedded software, airborne software, and/or autonomy software is a plus.

Position Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with other engineers on software architecture design and definition for containerized software to run onboard aircraft platforms
• Lead aspects of the development, documentation, and maintenance of tactical, embedded mission software solutions
• Lead and participate in peer reviews
• Lead aspects of integration testing to deliver a fully functional system
• Develop and execute automated software test procedures and troubleshoot functional and performance issues
• Estimate, plan, and track software development in an Agile environment
• Work with geographically-dispersed interdisciplinary team of Engineering and Program Management professionals

There are great development opportunities to learn and grow outside of the software domain and we encourage our engineers to gain depth in tactical and mission systems competencies so that we can continuously improve and build better solutions.

This position is hybrid. This means that the selected candidate will be required to perform some work onsite at one of the listed location options. This is at the hiring team’s discretion and could potentially change in the future.

Security Clearance and Export Control Requirements: 

This position requires the ability to obtain a Secret US Security Clearance for which the US Government requires US Citizenship.  Ability to obtain Secret US Security clearance (Post-Start).

To be considered for this position you will be required to complete a technical assessment as part of the selection process. Failure to complete the assessment will remove you from consideration

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in engineering, engineering technology (includes manufacturing engineering technology), chemistry, physics, mathematics, data science, or computer science.
• 3+ years experience designing and developing software using Python, C/C++, C# and/or Java
• 1+ year experience with Linux
• 1+ year experience leading a project or team
• Experience with CI/CD environments and tools such as Jenkins or Gitlab

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Proven experience with hardware/software integration and developing to ICDs
• Proficiency with Linux and AWS
• Embedded software development with modern C++
• Containerized software development
• Communication links, networking, or distributed computing
• Route Planning, optimization, or multivariate calculus
• Good verbal and written communication skills, with ability to work with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience with tools for Continuous Integration/Delivery, Version Control, and Build Automation such as Git and Gitlab
• Experience with Agile Methodologies
• Active U.S. Security Clearance

Typical Education/Experience:

Education/experience typically acquired through advanced technical education from an accredited course of study in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics or chemistry (e.g. Bachelor) and typically 9 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of technical education and experience (e.g. PhD+4 ye