Software Architect Lead

Software Architect Lead

Company:

The Boeing Company

The Boeing Company is looking for a Software Architect Lead to join the Battlespace Simulation Management team located in Hazelwood, MO. This position will focus on supporting the Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) & Boeing Global Services (BGS) Software Engineering organization.

This position will serve as the Software Architect for the Visual Systems Software Team, leading the development and advancement of visual-based products for government pilot training. This position will help lead in the development of MMRS (Multi Mode Radar Simulation) and JHMCS (Joint Helmet Mounting Cueing System) software products. This role will focus on innovation on advancing existing visual simulation technologies (including Image Generation software) and innovations in Mixed Reality (MR) / Virtual Reality (VR), ensuring robust, scalable, and high-performance solutions. This position will contribute to the design, integration, and optimization of visual software products supporting training environments.

BSM is responsible for the design, development, manufacture, and maintenance of training devices for a wide variety of commercial and military aircraft - everything from F-15 fighter jets to Apache attack helicopters, and even NASA's Starliner spacecraft. Software engineers on our team are responsible for all phases of the software lifecycle, including architecture, design, implementation and test. They are also directly involved in planning their own work, as part of the agile methodology, with a focus on technical excellence.

The BSM team is a large software development team comprised of several smaller agile teams, some with specialized skills. Our backlog includes everything from new feature development using cutting-edge technology to maintenance of legacy software baselines. The successful candidate will need to be comfortable working in an often fast-paced environment within a two-week "sprint" schedule.

As a Senior Software Architect, you will act as an independent technical SME developing software architecture for Visual’s core products. You will lead on planning, designing, developing, integration and maintaining of Visual’s core products to meet program objectives. You will provide technical leadership for the entire tech stack of solutions needs for programs. You will lead software research and development projects ensuring its feasibility in the next gen products and services and advise program customers on software-level architecture and establish and maintain frequent and open communications with agile teams.

Position Responsibilities:
•    Designs, architects, and develops simulation models, simulation visualizations, virtual environments/platforms, and frameworks to enhance test performance, safety, and durability of software and hardware systems throughout the entire product lifecycle.
•    Partners with stakeholders to review and identify simulation requirements and dynamics of the systems being simulated.
•    Performs design, modeling, simulation, testing, and analysis to assess and optimize overall system performance and capabilities.
•    Performs data collection and processing for use in simulations.
•    Validates, verifies, and refines simulation software code, models, simulations, test procedures and test environments, executing test procedures and documenting test results and models against real-world data, test data, benchmarks, or other similar models.
•    Documents and maintains technical code, algorithms, specifications and descriptions of simulation models.
•    Partners with cross functional engineering teams to enable integration of simulation software with hardware devices and systems.
•    Implements current and emerging technologies, tools, frameworks, and methods in the software engineering simulation environment.
•    Modernizes, migrates, sustains, and updates simulation software to adapt legacy systems to new operating systems.
•    Performs simulation software project management functions.

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

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

•    15+ years of experience in working on major government training and services platforms, simulators, instructor stations etc.
•    10+ years of experience with Go, Java, C/C++, Rust, or Python
•    10+ years of experience with software development on Windows or Linux

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience): 

•    Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in engineering, engineering technology (includes manufacturing engineering technolo