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Software Engineer | Vehicle Management Systems (Associate or Experienced)

Salary

$106,250 - $143,750 per year

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Description

The Boeing Company has an exciting opportunity for a Software Engineer - Vehicle Management Systems to join our Experimental Systems Group (ESG) Flight Software (FSW) team in Seal Beach, California.

This role is ideal for software engineers who enjoy working close to flight hardware and mission operations, care deeply about safety, reliability, and performance, and want to grow into a domain expert in Vehicle Management Systems (VMS) for advanced aerospace and autonomy platforms.

You will collaborate with systems, flight software, and integration/test teams to translate requirements and interface control documents (ICDs) into robust architectures and executable verification strategies.

Responsibilities:

  • Collaborates cross-functionally to define, review, and refine vehicle management software requirements, specifications, and system-level design inputs
  • Develops and integrates vehicle management software, including supporting the integration of externally developed functions into vehicle management systems
  • Plans and executes verification and validation (V&V) activities by creating test strategies, objectives, plans, cases, and scenarios aligned to requirements and compliance needs
  • Configures and manages test environments (hardware/software/network) that replicate production conditions and support reliable validation
  • Performs manual and automated testing, including building and maintaining automated test frameworks/scripts, executing test procedures, and reporting defects, risks, and potential vulnerabilities
  • Supports issue investigation and resolution for software defects discovered in testing or during operational use, providing results and feedback to improve design and functionality
  • Maintains engineering and test documentation (design artifacts, technical specifications, user documentation, test records, metrics, and data) in alignment with privacy/security standards
  • Contributes to process and technology improvements by applying current and emerging tools, frameworks, and methods in software development and test
  • Coordinates test and verification efforts across multifunctional teams, including project management support for test execution and delivery

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree or higher
  • 1+ years of experience with C, C++, Python and/or shell scripts
  • 1+ years of experience working in UNIX or LINUX environment
  • Experience with application DevOps tools, such as GitLab (CI/CD), Git Bash, Gradle, Maven, Jenkins, and Artifactory

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

Security Clearance:

  • Active U.S. Top Secret Security Clearance required

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS)
  • Agile Development
  • flight critical systems
  • simulators
  • hardware-in-the-loop environment
  • real-time software architecture
  • design methodologies
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