Boeing - Tukwila, WA
posted 3 months ago
About the position
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. Join our exclusive Graduate Researcher Program (GRP) in Boeing Research & Technology during the summer of 2025 and you can build something better for yourself, for our customers, and for the world. The intent of the Boeing Graduate Researcher program is to invite participants back for repeated work experience opportunities and offer a full-time position post-PhD graduation. Boeing Research & Technology is Boeing's global research and development team creating and implementing innovative technologies that make the impossible possible and enabling the future of aerospace. We are engineers, skilled scientists, thinkers, bold innovators, and dreamers. The GRP (Graduate Researcher Program) is a unique 10-12 week internship program designed specifically for students pursuing their PhD. GRP is a hybrid experience of real-world industry work experience combined with development programming that exposes students to Boeing, its products and services, and its people. GRP focuses on deeply connecting students to their team and Boeing through repeated work experience across multiple summers with the goal to ultimately offer a full-time position at the conclusion of academic studies if a mutual fit is achieved. Upon application and selection, successful applicants are matched with an intern experience and team related to their area of expertise. The program aims to provide interns with a valuable opportunity to gain deeper experience at Boeing and with their assigned team, while also utilizing academic skills and expertise to help solve real-world industry challenges and opportunities. In addition to industry work exposure, GRP students will attend GRP programming to extend their experience and knowledge at Boeing. GRP programming includes: mentorship in your field of study, weekly Featured Speaker Talks, a week-long in-person GRP Summit, participation in an Innovation Challenge, and other opportunities to interact and build a professional network with other GRP students, Boeing team members, and leadership. This GRP position is with the BR&T Guidance, Navigation, Control & Autonomy team in Seattle, WA. The selected candidate will work with other Boeing engineers to address research and development challenges in the areas of guidance, navigation, flight controls, and autonomy. The particular assigned work will depend on the strengths and interests of the candidate as well as the most current programmatic needs and priorities. With guidance from senior engineers, the candidate will perform R&D to mature technologies needed for areas such as advanced control system design and analysis methods and tools, dynamic system modeling and simulation, estimation, uncertainty quantification, trajectory optimization, and technologies needed to enable increased automation and full autonomous operations. The work involves aspects from problem solving, design, coding/implementation, mathematical modeling and simulation, testing, and analysis. The candidate will carry out experiment design, testing, and results analysis as well as prepare reports and give presentations. This position is hybrid, meaning that the selected candidate will be required to perform some work onsite at one of the listed location options. This is at the hiring team's discretion and could potentially change in the future. Travel is expected to be between 0 - 10%. This position must meet export control compliance requirements. To meet export control compliance requirements, a “U.S. Person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. §120.15 is required. “U.S. Person” includes U.S. Citizen, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee. These positions require the ability to obtain U.S. Security Clearance for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship. An interim and/or final U.S. Secret Clearance Post-Start may be required.
Responsibilities
- Participate in the Graduate Researcher Program (GRP) for 10-12 weeks during the summer of 2025.
- Work with the BR&T Guidance, Navigation, Control & Autonomy team to address research and development challenges.
- Perform research and development to mature technologies in advanced control system design and analysis methods.
- Engage in dynamic system modeling and simulation, estimation, uncertainty quantification, and trajectory optimization.
- Analyze and develop solutions to complex problems with guidance from senior engineers.
- Carry out experiment design, testing, and results analysis.
- Prepare reports and give presentations on findings.
Requirements
- Ability to work a minimum of 10 weeks (12 weeks preferred) during the summer of 2025.
- Completed the first year of PhD studies by July 2025.
- Experience with dynamic system modeling and simulation, control system design and analysis theory and methods, estimation, optimization, advanced mathematics, Monte Carlo analysis, MATLAB, Simulink, C or C++, object-oriented design, system architecture, and autonomous systems.
- Familiarity with machine learning, AI, probabilistic reasoning and decision making, or messaging standards and service-oriented architectures is a plus.
- PhD candidate in Aeronautical/Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering.
Nice-to-haves
- Good team collaboration skills.
- Good communication skills.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Flexible spending accounts
- Health savings accounts
- Retirement savings plans
- Life and disability insurance programs
- Paid and unpaid time away from work
- Relocation assistance based on candidate eligibility
