Software Automation Engineer

Software Automation Engineer

Company:

The Boeing Company

Job ID:

00000435750

Date Posted:

2024-11-13

Location:

USA - El Segundo, CA

Job Description Qualifications:

We are Boeing Research & Technology (BR&T): Boeing's global research and development team creating and implementing innovative technologies that make the impossible possible and enabling the future of aerospace. We are engineers and technicians, skilled scientists and bold innovators; Join us and put your passion, determination, and skill to work building the future! #TheFutureIsBuiltHere #ChangeTheWorld

Within BR&T’s Mission System Technologies (MST) organization, Boeing’s Advanced Computing Technology (ACT) team performs innovation, development and maturation of Advanced Computing and its associated subordinate technologies.

As a Mid-Level Automation Engineer located in El Segundo, California; you will design, develop, test, and maintain non-embedded software throughout the end-to-end lifecycle that meets industry, customer, safety, and regulation standards. You will develop, maintain, enhance, and optimize software products and functionalities for systems integrations.

This role will oversee developing, documenting, and maintaining architectures, requirements, algorithms, interfaces, and designs for software products.

Position Responsibilities:

• Languages and databases

• Software architecture and design

• Host environment

• Software development tools

• Software domain knowledge

• Supplier management

• Software implementation, validation, and verification

• Software development standards

This position is expected to be 100% onsite. The selected candidate will be required to work onsite at one of the listed location options.

This position requires the ability to obtain an active U.S. Top Secret/SCI Security Clearance (U.S. Citizenship Required) and ability to complete a CI (Counter Intelligence) polygraph after employment 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 of experience with programmable logic controllers (PLCs), including writing and testing PLC software in languages like Ladder Logic, Structured Text, or Function Block Diagrams

• 3+ years of experience with basic Windows operating system architecture and operation, including Windows server and SQL server

• 3+ years of experience with design, development, operation, and maintenance of process equipment for control systems

• Experience with industrial control systems including programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and instrumentation

• Experience reading and understanding process documentation including Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams, functional flow schematics, and control logic descriptions

• Experience with PID controller design and operating principals

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• 5+ years of experience in the following areas: programming {e.g. Siemens TIA Portal [Structured Control Language (SCL), Ladder Logic (LAD), Function Block Diagram (FBD)], Simatic WINCC V7 / SCADA, IEC 61131-3}, operating systems (e.g., Windows, Windows Server), SQL databases.

• 5+ years of experience in the design, development, operation, and maintenance of process equipment control systems with PLCs

• 1+ years of experience with relational databases (e.g., Oracle, Access, MS SQL) and database management tasks, including, but not limited to schema design/implementation, scripting (e.g., PL/SQL, stored procedures) and schema-level troubleshooting

• Experience with diagrams, functional flow schematics, and control logic descriptions

• Experience integrating multiple pieces of equipment or stations into a system

• Experience with valve, pump and compressor control principals and systems

• Experience implementing and troubleshooting industrial communication networks including Ethernet/IP, Profinet, and Profibus

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