Experienced Mission Software Engineer - Now Hiring

Job Description

At Boeing, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. From the seabed to outer space, you can contribute to work that matters with a company where diversity, equity and inclusion are shared values. We’re committed to fostering an environment for every teammate that’s welcoming, respectful and inclusive, with great opportunity for professional growth. Find your future with us.

Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) is seeking Experienced Mission Software Engineers for their Satellite Systems Division located in Seal Beach, CA or El Segundo, CA.  We are seeking engineers that are passionate about space and motivated to be part of a multi-disciplined, collaborative engineering environment that supports the design, development, and implementation of software for Boeing built commercial and government space products!

This is an opportunity to work in a rapid development environment using modern technology, architecture, and tools. We develop new software capabilities in the areas of Command & Control, Mission Planning & Processing, Mission Management, and other peripheral products used during satellite mission operations. We work within an agile methodology using a CI/CD environment; integrated with automated testing, vulnerability, & quality scanning capabilities. Depending on your skills and specific tasking/program alignment, you may be asked to develop within the Linux or windows operating systems; perform front or back end development; and deliver different product architectures including but not limited to web services/APIs/microservices, thick client, and/or web applications.

You will directly partner with customer counterparts and program management to deliver the highest value capabilities, performing demonstrations along the way.  The role requires a creativity and you will be encouraged to automate manual processes and workflows where possible. The candidate should possess excellent communications skills and work well in a team environment to support the needs of the Integrated Product Team.

This position requires proven 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. Critical thinking and troubleshooting skills are required!

Primary Responsibilities & Expectations:

• Develop and maintain requirements, architectures, algorithms, interfaces, and designs for software systems.
• Writing and reviewing software code and integrating completed software components into a fully functional software system.
• Perform software development in the agile methodology utilizing a DevSecOps environment where continuous improvement takes place over time.
• Build software test procedures and environments, execute the tests and document results to ensure software system requirements are met.
• Support progress demonstration presentations to customer representatives and satellite program leadership.

Boeing is the world's largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial airplanes and defense, space and security systems. We are engineers and technicians. Skilled scientists and thinkers. Bold innovators and dreamers. Join us, and you can build something better for yourself, for our customers and for the world.

This position allows some telecommuting while Security Clearances are being processed. The selected candidate will be required to work onsite at one of the listed location options.

This position requires the ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship. An interim and/or final U.S. Top Secret Clearance Post-Start is required.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience): 

• Bachelor’s, Master’s or Doctorate degree from an accredited course of study, in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science or another related field.
• 1 or more years of experience with Spacecraft Command & Control, Mission Planning & Processing, Mission Management, Flight Dynamics or other Operations software tools.
• 3 or more years of software development experience in a collaborative team environment using agile principles and a structured development process including code reviews and DevOps processes/tools.
• 3 or more years of experience with the software languages C, C++, Java, and Shell, Tcl/Tk, Perl, and/or Python.
• Experience using team collaboration tools including Git, JIRA, Confluence, Artifactory, etc.

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience): 

• Active U.S. Top Secret/SCI Security Clearance with Counterintelligence polygraph
• Current CompTIA Security+ certification
• Experience using SonarQube and/or Coverity to manage code quality
• Experience with cloud computing and virtualization technologies (Splunk, Vmware) and containerized applications and frameworks (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with software development in an agile environment (e.g. SAFe methodology) as a scrum master or product owner

Typical Education/Experience: 

Education/experience typically acquired through advanced education (e.g. Associate) and typically 3 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience (e.g. Bachelor+1 years' related work experience, 5 years' related work experience, etc.).

Relocation:

This position offers relocation based on candidate eligibility.

Drug Free Workplace:

Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.

Shift:

This position is for 1st shift.

Eligible for 3ERP

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Boeing is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.