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RF Lead Engineer – Aperture Architect

Boeing
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 9 Oct 2025
💰 $196,650/yr($145,350/yr$196,650/yr)

About the role

RF Lead Engineer – Aperture Architect

Company:

The Boeing Company

The Boeing Company is seeking an experienced RF Lead Engineer – Aperture Architect to serve as the engineering lead for the antennas and apertures on a major Air Proprietary program.

As the RF Lead Engineer – Aperture Architect for a major proprietary program, you will provide technical leadership and drive technical execution in the development of new advanced RF systems that balance performance across sensing, structural, and survivability requirements. You will be the technical lead for a team of engineers designing and integrating modern RF apertures. You will work with the IPT leader and IPT chief engineer to ensure the team produces a compliant system design.

Position Responsibilities:

  • Drives technical excellence throughout all aperture design activities.
  • Provides technical leadership and ensures use of best practices from across programs.
  • Provides oversight and approval of technical approaches, products and processes. Works closely with program managers, program chief engineers and other Boeing Teams to
  • ensure mission success and prompt resolution of anomalies.
  • Provides mentoring and coaching to other aperture design engineers
  • Captures lessons learned and best practices for implementation on future programs.
  • Resolves complex problems impacting completion of program milestones

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills and Experience):

  • Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry or non-US equivalent qualifications directly related to the work statement 
  • 14 + years of work-related experience with a Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of technical education and experience
  • Experience in leading the integration of RF apertures into air vehicles
  • Experience with Model Based Systems Engineering in the CAMEO / MSOSA tool suite
  • Experience in Computational Electromagnetics Modeling
  • Experience with Structural Design practices
  • Experience with Survivability Design practices
  • Able to travel 25% of the time

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills and Experience):

  • Master degree in Engineering
  • Experience working in a lead role responsible for planning, organizing, and leading personnel to solve complex technical problems
  • Experience leading antenna or RF aperture design studies
  • Experience developing solutions to a wide range of complex technical problems, requiring ingenuity and innovation
  • Experience providing technical and leadership skills mentoring to early career engineers
  • Experience with Earned Value Management to support the IPT Lead in managing team scope and progress

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

 

Shift:

This position is for 1st Shift

 

Relocation:

This position offers relocation based on candidate eligibility. Note: Basic relocation will be offered for eligible internal candidates.

 

Drug Free Workplace:

Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace (DFW) where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.

Pay & Benefits:

At Boeing, we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract, engage and retain the top talent. Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.

The Boeing Company also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.

The specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

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