Communications Software Lead Engineer–Developer

Communications Software Lead Engineer–Developer

Company:

The Boeing Company

The Boeing Company is currently seeking a Communications Software Lead Engineer–Developer to support our Air Proprietary 2 Mission Systems team located in Berkeley, Missouri. This position will focus on supporting the Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) business organization.  

The Mission Systems Communications Software Lead Engineer will lead the software efforts across the Communications team. The Communications team designs and develops solutions for civil and tactical communication capabilities, including but not limited to management of networks for tactical data links and performance of communication management across Over-The-Air networks. 

This role will be responsible for ensuring requirements are met and for the software technical excellence and adherence to processes and procedures. This lead role will be responsible for communicating priorities, tracking progress metrics, driving daily execution as well as handling software defects.  This role will also have to work across a variety of other Mission Systems software development teams, hardware IPTs and Integration teams. 

 

Position Responsibilities:  

• Leads activities to develop, document and maintain architecture, requirements, algorithms, interfaces and designs for software systems 

• Assists with developing and maintaining the Communications roadmap and vision 

• Develops and leads implementation of containerized software architecture across multiple types of hardware 

• Implements open architecture constructs like Open Mission Systems (OMS), Open Communication Standard (OCS), utilizing the Universal Command and Control Interface (UCI) 

• Defines boundaries for OMS Subsystems, requirements and service contracts for OMS services, and OMS isolators 

• Leads development of code and integration of complex software components into a fully functional software system 

• Oversees development of software verification plans, test procedures and test environments, executing the test procedures and documenting test results to ensure software requirements are met 

• Provides technical leadership for software projects and leads software supplier management activities 

• Plans, executes, and documents software research and development projects 

• Ensures software components comply with all safety standards and interoperability certification requirements 

• Tracks and evaluates software team and supplier performance to ensure product and process conformance to project plans and industry standards 

• Trains and mentors’ others 

• Works under minimal direction 

 

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/ Experience):  

• 2+ years of experience leading software related projects or technical teams 

• 7+ years of experience with embedded software architecture/development/design 

• 7+ years of Professional experience with C, C++, C#, Python, Java, or Ada  

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):