# Lead Mission System Flying Test Bed Engineer

**Company**: The Boeing Company
**Location**: Berkeley, MO
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $136,850-$185,150
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Manufacturing

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## Description

Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) is seeking a Lead Mission System Flying Test Bed (FTB) Engineer in Berkeley, MO, supporting an Air Dominance Fixed Wing Proprietary Program.

You will be joining a fast-paced program where you will be responsible for integrating and testing advanced tactical sensors onboard three flying test beds. Your work will include developing and planning tests, coordinating FTB modifications, and executing flight tests.

In this role, you will be joining a cross-functional team integrating next-generation capabilities as part of a very exciting and critically important development effort. You will have the opportunity to operate in an agile development environment, mature our products through the development lifecycle, work on next-generation open-architecture model-based designs, and collaborate across multiple disciplines.

**Position Responsibilities:**

- Lead the development of test plans to support key flight test risk reduction activities

- Lead a team of test engineers and provide technical guidance to team members to ensure FTB milestones are executed according to plan

- Lead the execution of flight tests to characterize mission systems sensor performance

- Coordinate with multiple disciplines to define FTB modifications needed to integrate advanced tactical sensors

- Coordinate with Boeing, Test, and Evaluation and Tactical Sensors SMEs to ensure all development activities support the FTB schedule

- Participate in customer-led Combined Test Force (CTF) to support system verification and inform customer decisions and milestones

- Manage and monitor team and supplier performance to ensure system integration and compliance with requirements

- Utilize Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) for test planning, defining test configurations, and documenting test traceability

- Lead hardware and software development, integration, test, and validation/verification

- Address FTB design/integration problems as they arise and coordinate with technology domain experts and suppliers as necessary

**Basic Qualifications (Required Skills and Experience):**

- Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering (with a focus in Electrical, Mechanical or Aeronautical), Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry or non-US equivalent qualifications directly related to the work statement

- 9+ years of related work experience and a bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of related work experience and technical education

**Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills and Experience):**

- Experience with flight and/or lab test planning (test plan or test procedure generation) and execution

- Experience with aircraft modifications to support avionics integration

- Experience with integration of Department of Defense (DoD) tactical platforms subsystems

- Experience developing requirements, performing requirement decomposition/traceability, functional decomposition, and interface definition

- Experience working on development programs using an Agile/Scrum methodology

- Experience working in Cameo or similar Model-Based Systems Engineering tools

- Experience with verification and validation testing

**Benefits:**

- Competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities

- Best-in-class 401(k) plan with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 10% of eligible pay

- Student Loan Match program

- Health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and paid time off

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Aeronautical Engineering
- Computer Science
- Data Science
- Mathematics
- Physics
- Chemistry
- Model-Based Systems Engineering

### Nice to have
- flight test planning
- lab test planning
- avionics integration
- Department of Defense tactical platforms
- Agile/Scrum methodology
- Cameo
- verification and validation testing

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