Lead Software Engineer (Real Time Software Engineer)

Lead Software Engineer (Real Time Software Engineer)

Company:

The Boeing Company

The Boeing Company is looking for a Lead Software Engineer - Developer to join the C-17 Mission Software team located in Long Beach, California. This position will focus on supporting the Boeing Global Services (BGS) Software Engineering organization.

The C-17 Mission Software Team develops and test associated safety critical flight software in a fast paced agile engineering environment. Successful candidates will work closely with systems engineering teams, customers, suppliers, and field service representatives. Candidates will research and integrate new technologies to both modernize and sustain fleets of the world’s finest airlift platform. Successful candidates will have the opportunity to deliver new capabilities using the latest engineering techniques to design and test C-17 flight systems.

Position Responsibilities

• Oversees tracking and evaluation of software team and supplier performance to ensure product and process compliance to project plans and industry standards.
• Oversees software project management activities and software supplier management functions.
• Reviews planning, execution and documentation of software research and development projects.
• Leads development, establishment, monitoring and improvement of software processes, tools and key performance metrics that align projects with organizational goals and industry benchmarks.
• Oversees research and implementation of current and emerging technologies, tools, frameworks and changes in regulations relevant to software development.
• Oversees debugging and resolution of issues identified to ensure the reliability and efficiency of software products.
• Oversees development, documentation and maintenance of architectures, requirements, algorithms, interfaces and designs for software products.
• Reviews the development, maintenance, enhancement and optimization of software products and functionalities for systems integrations.
• Oversees the review, analysis, and translation of customer requirements into initial design of software products.

Basic Qualifications

• 14+ years of experience developing avionics flight software.
• 14+ years of experience with real-time software architecture and design methodologies.
• 14+ years of experience with the Software Development lifecycle (including Requirements Analysis, Design, Code, Integration & Test).
• 5+ years of experience leading software projects and/or teams

Preferred Qualifications

•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

•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 builders, post processing tools, requirements management tools, and web authoring tools.
• Knowledge of domains, characteristics, constraints and products that require software and influence architecture, requirements, interfaces, designs, and integration/test approaches. Domain examples include data processing, ground support, tools and analysis models. Examples of characteristics and constraints that impact software include operating systems, fidelity and information processing capacity. Examples of products include aircraft, missiles, airborne/shipboard/space systems/ground-based support systems.
• Knowledge of implementation, validation, and verification processes, practices, and guidelines to ensure so