# Software Engineering Manager, Vertical Lift

**Company**: The Boeing Company
**Location**: Ridley Park, PA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $171,700 - $232,300
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Aerospace & Defence

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## Description

The Boeing Company is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to join our Vertical Lift software team located in Ridley Park, PA. As a Software Engineering Manager at Boeing, you will lead and support a diverse team of software development engineers. This is a unique opportunity to manage full lifecycle software development for the most sophisticated military and commercial platforms in the world.

Responsibilities include:

- Lead software engineers through the full lifecycle of software development, from modeling and simulation to testing and analysis

- Recruit, hire, mentor, and manage teams of software developers, fostering their career growth and building a strong team culture based on inclusion, innovation, and respect

- Demonstrate a commitment to the mission and motivate the team to achieve common objectives through effective teamwork

- Collaborate with customers and other leaders to clearly define expectations and deliver exceptional solutions

- Drive innovation by looking beyond current practices and utilizing creative thinking to discover new opportunities and solutions

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to inform and implement the company's technology strategy, with a special focus on execution and timely delivery

- Manage employees performing engineering and technical activities in Software Engineering

- Develop and execute project and process plans, implement policies and procedures, and set operational goals

- Acquire resources for projects and processes, provide technical management of suppliers, and lead process improvements

- Develop and maintain relationships and partnerships with customers, stakeholders, peers, partners and direct reports

- Provide oversight and approval of technical approaches, products and processes

- Lead and support Proposals, Requests for Information/Proposal, including both Technical and Non-Technical writing and estimating

- Manage projects including baselining, execution and control account management

This position requires project, people, and technical leadership; customer engagement; participation in design reviews; conducting employee development and employee reviews; as well as cost account management of team budgets and schedules. The position will require management of resources and priorities across multiple software development and IR&D projects.

Basic Qualifications:

- Candidates must have at least one year of experience in a leadership role (team leader, temp manager, large scale cross functional project/program management, or formal manager experience) OR have completed the Boeing internal course “Exploring Leadership.”

- Ability to obtain a U.S. Secret Security Clearance or higher for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. citizenship

- 5+ years’ experience in Software Engineering

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

- Advanced degree in engineering, AI, data science, or related field

- Active U.S. Secret Security Clearance or higher for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. citizenship

- Experience in software product life cycles specific to aviation and aerospace systems, from proposal through fielding

- Familiarity with DO-178 software certification methodology

- Previous experience with US DOD software development is a plus

- Broad technical experience in programming languages, development environments, operating systems, validation, and verification, and in emerging technology and engineering standards

- Experience in project execution and earned value management techniques

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

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## Skills

### Required
- Software Engineering
- Leadership
- Project Management
- Security Clearance

### Nice to have
- Aerospace Engineering
- DO-178 software certification
- US DOD software development
- Earned Value Management

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