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Associate Software Engineer - Developer

Boeing
Huntington Beach, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 1 Apr 2026
💰 $143,750/yr($106,250/yr$143,750/yr)

About the role

Associate Software Engineer - Developer

Company:

The Boeing Company

The Boeing Company is currently seeking an Associate Software Engineer (Developer) to support our Acoustics - 1526 team located in Huntington Beach, California. This position will focus on supporting the Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) Software Engineering organization.  

This position will support our P-8A Acoustic Programs in Huntington Beach, CA and will focus on supporting the Boeing Defense Services (BDS) business organization. The P-8A Acoustic Programs team provides a wide variety of Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) products to the US Navy as well as international partners. The selected candidate will develop and update software components for aircraft-based underwater sensor monitoring, training systems, and Integrated Research & Development (IR&D) efforts.  

Position Responsibilities:  

  • Designs, develops, tests, and maintains non-embedded software throughout the end-to-end lifecycle that meets industry, customer, safety, and regulation standards.  

  • Reviews, analyzes, and translates customer requirements into initial design of software products. 

  • Develops, maintains, enhances and optimizes software products and functionalities for systems integrations. 

  • Develops, documents and maintains architectures, requirements, algorithms, interfaces and designs for software products. 

  • Debugs and resolves issues identified to ensure the reliability and efficiency of software products. 

  • Handles user inquiries, troubleshoots technical issues and user feedback analysis. 

  • Implements current and emerging technologies, tools, frameworks and changes in regulations relevant to software development. 

  • Develops, establishes, monitors and improves software processes, tools and key performance metrics that align projects with organizational goals and industry benchmarks. 

  • Executes and documents software research and development projects. 

  • Advises on software domains, system-specific issues, processes and regulations. 

  • Performs software project management activities and software supplier management functions. 

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

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/ Experience): 

  • Active Secret Clearance

  • Bachelor’s Degree

  • 2+ years of experience with C/C++ coding or java/python script development

  • 2+ years of experience in Linux-based Operating Systems

  • 1+ years of experience working in an Agile Environment utilizing Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, etc.) or similar tools/tools suite

Preferred Qualifications (Desired 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 and 2+ years of related work experience OR Bachelor’s Degree and 6+ years of directly related work experience OR 10+ years of related, relevant experience

  • Knowledge of specification format requirements, guidelines, and change control processes. Understanding of relationship between specifications/standards and aircraft/product certification systems 

  • Knowledge of host environments, including processors, operating systems and networks. Ability to build, integrate and troubleshoot software components 

  • Knowledge of software programming languages and databases and the ability to apply to the software domain. Programming languages encompass higher order languages, auto-coded languages and assembly languages 

  • Knowledge of how to derive and allocate requirements (e.g., system, sub-system, software) and show traceability throughout the product lifecycle 

  • Knowledge of software architecture and design methodologies. Ability to synthesize software architectures and designs that meet requirements, characteristics and constraints 

  • Knowledge of software development processes in compliance with established internal and industry standards, guidelines, and best practices in the development, testing, and deployment of software 

  • Knowledge of general and software development and testing tools, capability and usage. Examples include compilers, linkers, debuggers, data analysis tools, graphical user interface b

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