Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

The Boeing Company is currently seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our B-52J Navigation and Displays team located in Kent, Washington in support of the B-52J CERP program within Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS). The role focuses on flight software development and avionics modernization for a long-serving, iconic military aircraft; and it is ideal for someone passionate about embedded avionics and control systems who is ready to go beyond coding to defining the work, leading others to execute, and owning the outcome.

The ideal candidate will provide leadership and oversight capability for requirements-to-design activities, software development and testing, systems integration, and process improvement efforts to ensure the team meets customer, safety and quality, regulatory, and schedule objectives. Moreover, they will collaborate with management and other teams in planning the work for the team to deliver higher program predictability and quality on strategic priorities.

If you are excited about building dependable embedded systems and contributing your flight software knowledge and leadership skills to a historic aircraft modernization, we'd love to hear from you — please apply today to join the B-52J Navigation and Displays team and help shape the future of this mission-critical program.

Position Responsibilities

• Leads the design, development, test, and maintenance of non-embedded software throughout the end-to-end lifecycle that meets industry, customer, safety, and regulation standards.
• Leads the review, analysis, and translation of customer requirements into initial design of software products.
• Coordinates the development, maintenance, enhancement and optimization of software products and functionalities for systems integrations.
• Leads activities to develop, document and maintain architecture, requirements, algorithms, interfaces and designs for software products.
• Debugs and leads resolution of issues identified to ensure the reliability and efficiency of software products.
• Leads handling of user inquiries, troubleshooting technical issues and user feedback analysis.
• Leads research and implementation of current and emerging technologies, tools, frameworks and changes in regulations relevant to software development.
• Leads development, establishment, monitoring and improvement of software processes, tools and key performance metrics that align projects with organizational goals and industry benchmarks.
• Leads execution and documentation of software research and development projects.
• Consults on software domains, system-specific issues, processes and regulations.
• Leads software project management activities and software supplier management functions.
• Leads tracking and evaluation of software team and supplier performance to ensure product and process compliance with project plans and industry standards.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• Seven (7) or more years of professional experience in software development lifecycle including design, development, integration, verification, process/tool deployment, supplier and project coordination, research, and troubleshooting.
• Experience in Agile software development using workflow tools and platforms such as VS Code and Gitlab.
• Experience developing embedded real-time software with C, C++, Java, Python, Rust, or Ada.
• Experience working with real-time operating systems (RTOS).
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment and communicate with stakeholders of different backgrounds and skill levels.
• Understanding of the interactions between hardware, software, and system safety.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in engineering, engineering technology (includes manufacturing engineering technology), chemistry, physics, mathematics, data science, or computer science and 9+ years of related work experience OR Bachelor's Degree and 13+ years of directly related work experience OR 17+ years of related, relevant experience
• Knowledge of specification format requirements, guidelines, and change control processes. Understanding of relationship between specifications/standards and aircraft/product certification systems.
• Knowledge of host environments, including processors, operating systems and networks. Ability to build, integrate and troubleshoot software components.
• Knowledge of software programming languages and databases and the ability to apply to the software domain. Programming languages encompass higher order languages, auto-coded languages and assembly languages.
• Knowledge of how to derive and allocate requirements (e.g., system, sub-system, software) and show traceability throughout the product lifecycle.
• Knowledge of software architecture and design methodologies. Ability to synthesize software architectures and designs that meet requirements, characteristics and constraints.
• Knowledge of software development processes in compliance with established internal and industry standards, guidelines, and best practices in the development, testing, and deployment of software.
• Knowledge of general and software development and testing tools, capability and usage. Examples include compilers, linkers, debuggers, data analysis tools, graphical user interface builders, post processing tools, requirements management tools, and web authoring tools.
• Knowledge of domains, characteristics, constraints and products that require software and influence architecture, requirements, interfaces, designs, and integration/test approaches. Domain examples include data processing, ground support, tools and analysis models. Examples of characteristics and constraints that impact software include operating systems, fidelity and information processing capacity. Examples of products include aircraft, missiles, airborne/shipboard/space systems/ground-based support systems.
• Knowledge of supplier assessment processes including Preferred Supplier Certification and Work Transfer Process. Elements of assessment to include supplier's past performance, business processes, capacity plan, statement of work evaluation, risk mitigation plan, capabilities and lean practices in order to rate supplier viability to support the Boeing company's goals and objectives. Ability to control and deliver project deliverables, project accounting and appraisal, and optimize the contribution of the people involved using project management tools.
• Knowledge of implementation, validation, and verification processes, practices, and guidelines to ensure software development quality, performance, and safety.