Lead Avionics Software Engineer
About The Position
This position will focus on supporting the Boeing Global Services (BGS) Software Engineering. At Boeing, we are all innovators on a mission to connect, protect, explore and inspire. From the seabed to outer space, opportunities abound to learn, grow, and contribute to impactful work. This vital role is responsible for leading the design, development, testing, and maintenance of embedded avionics software systems that meet rigorous industry, customer, safety, and regulatory standards. The Lead Avionics Software Engineer drives continuous improvements in software maintainability, elimination of technical debt, and scaling of software release capabilities by leveraging advanced development and testing methodologies. This role encompasses oversight of integration between embedded software and specialized hardware, rigorous code review, and leadership in the evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies that strengthen product performance and reliability. In addition, this role plays a key function in managing project execution, tracking supplier performance, and ensuring alignment with complex program requirements, particularly in support of ongoing sustainment and integration efforts for critical aerospace platforms.
Requirements
- Bachelor Degree
- Ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship
- 9+ years of experience in flight avionics software development
- 9+ years of experience with real-time software architecture and design methodologies
- 9+ years of experience with the Software Development Lifecycle (including Requirements Analysis, Design, Code, Integration & Test)
Nice To Haves
- Level 4: 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
- 3+ years of experience with the C17 Aircraft
- 3+ years of experience developing or testing real time integrated avionics hardware/software systems for spacecraft, high performance aircraft or other similar platforms
- 3+ years of experience developing software using Ada, or C/C++
- Experience with Power PC or Linux-based processors
- Experience with Python or test scripting languages
Responsibilities
- Leads the design, development, test, debugging and maintenance of software that is integrated into embedded devices and systems and meets industry, customer, safety and regulation standards
- Leads review, analyses, and translation of customer requirements into the design of software products for embedded devices and systems
- Reviews code for embedded systems software to run on specific specialized hardware
- Leads integration of embedded software with hardware components
- Leads analyses, monitoring and improvement of the efficiency and stability of embedded software systems
- Leads testing and debugging of software for embedded devices and systems
- Researches and leads implementation of current and emerging technologies, tools, frameworks, and changes in regulations relevant to software development and hardware technologies
- Advises on software and hardware integration domains
- Leads tracking and evaluation of internal and supplier software team performance to ensure product and process compliance to project plans and industry standards
- Leads embedded software project management functions
Benefits
- health insurance
- flexible spending accounts
- health savings accounts
- retirement savings plans
- life and disability insurance programs
- paid and unpaid time away from work
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
