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Senior Systems Engineer

Salary

$176,800 - $239,200 per year

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Description

The Boeing Company is looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to lead the Systems Engineering team supporting software/firmware development located in Seal Beach and Huntington Beach, CA.

This position will focus on supporting the Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) Satellite Systems Engineering organization.

Our team creates software tools and services for the world’s highest performing satellite/ground systems for USG and Commercial customers.

This is an opportunity to work in a rapid development environment using modern technology, architecture, and tools.

The senior position requires proven leadership and experience within the software ecosystem, a unique background of project experience, and the clear exhibition of superior judgment and decision making to engineer new solutions and capabilities.

Position Responsibilities:

  • Apply an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to lead activities to plan, design, develop and verify complex lifecycle balanced system of systems and system solutions.
  • Leads others to evaluate customer/operational needs to define system performance requirements, integrate technical parameters and assure compatibility of all physical, functional and program interfaces.
  • Leads analyses to optimize total system of systems and/or system architecture.
  • Leads, develops, maintains and identifies improvements for the planning, organization, implementation and monitoring of requirements management processes.
  • Develop and maintain requirements, architecture, algorithms, interfaces, and design for high-performance software solutions.
  • Leading software system design activities including Software Requirement Specification (SRS) development, Hardware and Software Interface Requirements Specification (IRS), and integrating completed software components into a fully functional software system through mission/system testing.
  • Support progress demonstration presentations to customer representatives and program/IPT leadership.
  • Support IPT by implementing a structured approach to defining and meeting a development and integration schedule alongside a rigorously managed cost baseline.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/ Experience):

  • 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
  • 5+ years of experience with systems engineering for space systems and ground segments performing command, control, mission planning and data processing
  • 5+ years of experience in the Software Development lifecycle (including Requirements Analysis, Design, Code, Integration & Test)
  • 3+ years of experience leading systems engineering and/or software development projects
  • 3+ years of experience in writing software requirement specifications
  • Experience working in an Agile software development environment and DevOps methodologies
  • Experience with Software Requirements Specification development
  • Experience with interface definition between multiple SW systems and between HW and SW
  • Experience with various formal acceptance testing activities (e.g., Formal Qualification Test -FQT, Factory Acceptance Test - FAT, Site Acceptance Test - SAT)

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

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • U.S. Top Secret Security Clearance
  • Experience with Cameo
  • Product Owner/Technical Lead
  • Integration & Test Lead
  • System/Mission level integration tests

Ready to apply?

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