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F-22 Lead System Designer

The Boeing Company Berkeley, MO On-site senior full-time

Salary

$164,900 - $223,100 per year

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Description

The Boeing F-22 Raptor team is seeking a Lead System Designer in Berkeley, MO to join the F-22 Raptor Mission System Design Team. The Lead System Designer will interact directly with customers, suppliers, partners, program management, integration, software, and test engineers.

Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with Responsible Engineers, customer technical staff, suppliers, and Lockheed Martin teammates to develop and document complex electronic and electrical system and software requirements for F-22 avionics sub-systems and weapon system architecture
  • Resolve technical issues through coordination with engineering using established processes
  • Manage Deliverables by defining plans for risk mitigation, issues, and opportunities; and, monitoring baseline plans to assess project performance, productivity, and lessons learned
  • Brief customer and program leadership on program status; risks, issues, and opportunities; and help needed
  • Clearly communicate technical information to other engineers and to management
  • Support the team as a lead engineer providing coaching/mentoring and constructive feedback to drive high-quality deliverables that meet program milestones
  • Work closely with cross functional teams in an integrated team environment
  • Problem solving and supporting other engineers in a team environment
  • Influence and review performance, specification, and compliance requirements
  • Ensure and demonstrate traceability between the requirements, analysis, and design in digital systems models being developed by Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tools and practices and the final integrated products
  • Ensure compliance and performance of system design to security and safety requirements and configuration control processes
  • Contribute to defect management and resolution activities

Requirements:

  • Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering (with a focus in Electrical, Mechanical or Aeronautical), Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry
  • 14+ years of work-related experience with a bachelor’s degree or 12+ years of work-related experience with a masters or 9+ years of work-related experience with a PhD
  • Travel up to 10% of the time

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Active U.S. Secret Clearance or higher
  • Experience in an avionics, integration, and/or a mission systems role
  • Experience with agile development methodologies
  • Experience in the Aerospace Industry
  • Experience with supporting a product through an entire development lifecycle
  • Experience with systems engineering tools such as IBM Rational DOORS
  • Experience working within the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) or other agile development environment
  • Experience with Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)

Benefits:

  • Competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities
  • Health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs
  • Boeing 401(k) plan with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 10% of eligible pay
  • Student Loan Match program

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • Agile development methodologies
  • Avionics
  • Integration
  • Mission systems
  • IBM Rational DOORS
  • Aerospace Industry

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