# Satellite Payload Systems Engineer - Senior or Principal

**Company**: The Boeing Company
**Location**: El Segundo, CA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $176,800 - $239,200
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Aerospace & Defence

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## Description

Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) Space, Intelligence & Weapons Systems (SIWS) is seeking a Senior or Principal Satellite Payload Systems Engineer (Level 5 or 6) to join our Payload Simulation Team in El Segundo, CA.

In this role, you will architect, design, specify, and qualify real-time satellite payload models integrated into system-level simulators. This is an opportunity to create innovative solutions and support multiple software-based projects in a rapid, agile CI/CD environment using modern technologies and tools.

**Responsibilities:**

- Executes full life-cycle development activities, including requirements definition and analysis

- Software architecture, detailed design, code reviews, test plan and procedure development, test result reviews, and qualification

- Performs system-level CONOPS development, functional analysis, and decomposition for use of software-only simulator to support internal and external stakeholders

- Understands system and component functions and how those behaviors map to simulation space

- Interfaces with a technically diverse user community and a multi-disciplinary integrated product team (e.g., systems, payload, subsystem, hardware, firmware, and software)

- Works independently and collaboratively to complete trade studies and detailed designs

- Delivers innovative, high-impact solutions to complex technical challenges

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology (including Manufacturing Technology), Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, or non-US equivalent qualifications directly related to the work statement

- 14+ years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience

- Experience with or working knowledge of concurrent computing and experience developing multi-threaded or multi-process software applications

- Experience with or working knowledge of satellite digital payloads

- Experience with digital communication systems

- Active U.S. Secret Security Clearance

**Benefits:**

- Competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities

- 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

**Pay Range:**

- Senior (Level 5): $176,800 - $239,200

- Principal (Level 6): $210,800 - $285,200

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## Skills

### Required
- concurrent computing
- multi-threaded software applications
- satellite digital payloads
- digital communication systems

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