Boeing
Software Engineer
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Job Description
Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) has an exciting opportunity for an Experienced Software Engineer - Vehicle Management Systems to join our Experimental Systems Group (ESG) Flight Software (FSW) team in Seal Beach, California. This position will focus on supporting the Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) Software Engineering organization. This role is ideal for software engineers who enjoy working close to flight hardware and mission operations, care deeply about safety, reliability, and performance, and want to grow into a domain expert in Vehicle Management Systems (VMS) for advanced aerospace and autonomy platforms. You will collaborate with systems, flight software, and integration/test teams to translate requirements and interface control documents (ICDs) into robust architectures and executable verification strategies. You will build simulation- and hardware-in-the-loop environments, author test plans and procedures, and develop automated pipelines that validate requirements, interfaces, and performance across integration, lab, and operational settings. You will write unit/integration/system tests; contribute to CI/CD pipelines, code reviews, and documentation; and deliver concise, actionable test reports for stakeholders.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree
- 5+ years of experience with C, C++, Python and/or shell scripts
- 5+ years of experience working in UNIX or LINUX environment
- 5+ years of experience working with Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS)
- 3+ years of experience in testing flight critical systems via simulators and hardware-in-the-loop environment
- Experience with application DevOps tools, such as GitLab (CI/CD), Git Bash, Gradle, Maven, Jenkins, and Artifactory
- This position requires an active U.S. Top Secret Security Clearance (U.S. Citizenship Required). (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active)
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 and 5+ years of related work experience OR Bachelor’s Degree and 9+ years of directly related work experience OR 13+ years of related, relevant experience
- Experience with Agile Development
- Knowledge of techniques to help identify a customer's organization, capabilities, practices, support resources, preferences, problems, and other constraints in order to provide effective product support and technical issue resolution
- Knowledge of international simulator regulatory standards, data and database constituents, simulator motion systems, and the simulation tools and processes used to provide flight simulators to customers
- Experience in real-time software architecture and design methodologies
- Ability to synthesize real-time software architectures and designs that meet real-time requirements, characteristics and constraints
- Experience in real-time target environments, including processor and network architectures, communication protocols, simulation frameworks and electrical interfaces
- Experience building, integrating and troubleshooting software components
- Knowledge of aircraft systems (e.g., avionics, hydraulic, electrical, egress systems), components (e.g., multifunction displays wing, engine, landing gear transmission), and loadable/non-loadable software (e.g., radar operational programs, inertial navigation programs, operational flight programs)
- Experience in the implementation of software test frameworks, tools and simulations.
- Knowledge of internal and external software test frameworks, architectures, best practices and application in industry
- Knowledge of software practices (e.g., configuration control, change management, problem reporting, software design, peer review, testing, and T&E specific practices), programming languages, operating systems and computing technology applicable to laboratory and flight test systems, including real-time, non-real-time, network-centric, monitoring and control applications
- Experience in verification, validation, certification and qualification processes and procedures, including knowledge of governing regulations and compliance requirements
- Ability to assess and document test or analysis data to show compliance
- Ability to design and develop automation of software tests, execute automated tests, track results, manage test data, and utilize results to improve software quality
- Ability to understand the big picture and the inter-relationships of all positions and activities in the system, including the impact of changes in one area on another area (this includes the ability to see and understand the inter-relationships between components of systems and plans, anticipate future events, and apply the principles of systems thinking to accelerate performance)
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Employment Type
Full Time
Experience Level
Senior
Salary Range
$135,150 – $182,850
Location
Seal Beach, CA
Posted
Today
Visa Sponsorship
Available
Country
US