Lead Software Systems Engineer
About The Position
The Boeing Company's Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) is seeking a Lead Software Systems Engineer to join the P-8 Missions System Software Engineering team in Kent, WA. This role involves leading a software product baseline team within an Agile software engineering development environment that supports architecture, requirements, framework, operating system, and application development for the P-8 Poseidon program, a key Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) platform. The engineer will lead, oversee, and direct the design, development, analysis, and maintenance of software systems, leveraging domain experience and collaborating with internal and external teams across the P-8 Program. Responsibilities include developing requirements, creating design documentation, technical coordination, software development, and validation/testing.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Active U.S. Secret Security Clearance (U.S. Citizenship Required). (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active)
- 9+ years’ experience with software development on Windows or Linux
- 5+ years’ experience with Java or C++
Nice To Haves
- 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
- Strong systems thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills
- Practical experience with requirements decomposition, requirements tracing and configuration management
- Familiar with standard engineering tools such as requirements management (DOORS or similar), MBSE (MSOSA/Cameo or similar), test management, and common collaboration tools (Jira, Confluence, Git)
- Experience with mission systems, avionics, command & control architectures, embedded systems, sensor systems, or related defense/space programs.
- Experience with Agile or SAFe practices, including daily standup, User Stories, Sprints, and Release Planning
- Experience using dependency management and automation services (e.g. Maven, Git, Jenkins, etc.)
Responsibilities
- Leads the planning of software development tasks including detailed software design, coding, and unit/integration/functional/system testing of customer desired features/user stories, ensuring successful achievement of acceptance criteria
- Leads and oversees the design, architecture, prototyping, and development of mission computing and software modernization
- Partners with software and hardware stakeholders to inform system definition and oversees translation of system-level requirements into software requirements to meet Navy customer capability requests
- Provides cross-team architecture level guidance for P-8 Mission Systems Software including estimation of new business and opportunities
- Reviews completion of software system-level analyses to identify risk, issues and opportunities; leads integration and deployment of mitigation actions throughout the software lifecycle
- Leads code reviews to ensure alignment to requirements and standard
- Mentor’s junior engineers and provide cross-training within the team by implementing and documenting standard design, test, and execution processes and procedures
Benefits
- competitive base pay
- variable compensation opportunities
- health insurance
- flexible spending accounts
- health savings accounts
- retirement savings plans
- life and disability insurance programs
- paid and unpaid time away from work
- relocation
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
