# Lead Payload Systems Engineer

**Company**: The Boeing Company
**Location**: Seal Beach, CA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $176,800 - $239,200
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Aerospace

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## Description

We are seeking a Lead Payload Systems Engineer to join our Experimental Systems Group (ESG) in Seal Beach, CA. As a Lead Payload Systems Engineer, you will serve as a core point of contact for customers and work directly with subject matter experts across the business to quickly iterate and converge on achievable solutions that meet our customers' needs.

Responsibilities:

- Serve as the technical project manager for subcontracted development and sustainment efforts

- Manage technical project scope, planning, proposals, cost estimates, schedules, and drive execution

- Identify, track, and update key subsystem technical performance metrics

- Work closely with the Payload Integrated Product Team (IPT) to define capability roadmaps, value statements, and implementation plans

- Coordinate with SMEs and external stakeholders to provide real-time support for orbit systems, including investigation and resolution of anomalies

- Serve as the authority and decision maker for technical trades, design decisions, noncompliance disposition, and failure resolution within assigned products

- Develop and present review packages to internal and external senior leadership

- Work proactively and independently in a fast-paced, demanding atmosphere

Basic Qualifications:

- Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology, Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry or non-US equivalent qualifications directly related to the work statement

- 10+ years of related work experience OR an equivalent combination of education and experience (Ex. PhD +6, master's +8)

- 3+ years of experience leading projects, teams, or products

- Proficiency in authoring Interface Control Documents (ICDs), specifications, and Statements of Work (SoW)

- Active Top Secret/SCI U.S. Security Clearance (U.S. Citizenship Required)

Preferred Qualifications:

- Expertise in one or more space payload technology (RF Communication, Lasercomm, PNT, Remote Sensing, etc.)

- Experience working directly with government customers on large-scale space programs

- Experience in spacecraft, launch vehicles, or highly autonomous unmanned systems

Pay & Benefits:

- Competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities

- Comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and paid time off

- Summary pay range for Experienced (Level 5): $176,800 - $239,200

## Skills

### Required
- Engineering
- Computer Science
- Mathematics
- Physics
- Interface Control Documents
- Specifications
- Statements of Work

### Nice to have
- Space Payload Technology
- RF Communication
- Lasercomm
- PNT
- Remote Sensing
- Government Customers
- Spacecraft
- Launch Vehicles
- Autonomous Unmanned Systems

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