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From the employer's careers site First seen 28 Oct 2026

Systems Software Engineer (Associate or Experienced)

Salary

USD $94,350 – $136,850 per year

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Description

The Boeing Company has an exciting opportunity for a Systems Software Engineer to join the FishTools program supporting the Space Mission Systems Software Team.

The FishTools program develops and maintains a Collection Planning and Mission Management system widely used within the Intelligence community. This software system has become an integral part of imaging operations by facilitating the scheduling, analysis, and mission awareness of multiple space imaging platforms.

We are looking for a skilled, motivated, and creative software systems engineer to develop innovative solutions and support existing capabilities of an agile software program for the national intelligence community.

Position Responsibilities:

  • Supports/plans software development tasks including detailed software design, coding, and unit/integration/functional/system testing of customer desired features/user stories, ensuring successful achievement of acceptance criteria
  • Develops and sustains new and existing applications; as well as troubleshoot and resolve various software issues
  • Presents and reports to customers/stakeholders
  • Briefs software designs and demonstrates software release functionality to customers/stakeholders/end users
  • Analyses high-level customer requirements and derives lower-level functional requirements
  • Contributes to the creation of new distributed components and interactions that align with the future system architecture

Security Clearance/Customer Verification: This position requires an active U.S. Top Secret Security Clearance (U.S. Citizenship Required). A final U.S. Top Secret/SCI Security Clearance with an adjudicated Counterintelligence Polygraph Post-Start is required.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

  • Bachelor’s Degree or higher
  • 1+ years’ experience analysing data and/or identifying functional and systems requirements with customers
  • 1+ years’ experience in systems engineering including system architecture development, systems integration, and/or hardware/software design and analysis
  • 1+ years’ experience developing presentations and briefing customers
  • Familiarity with Agile or SAFe practices

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

  • Level 3: 5 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience
  • Experience leading projects and/or individuals in software development lifecycle tasks
  • Agile software development lifecycle knowledge
  • Knowledge of project planning processes and tools
  • Effective use of Atlassian Products

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
  • Student Loan Match program

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • project planning
  • Atlassian Products
  • Agile software development lifecycle knowledge
  • leadership
Apply on The Boeing Company