Lead Systems Engineer

Boeing•Berkeley, MO
•$136,650 - $185,150•Onsite

About The Position

The Boeing Company is seeking a Lead Systems Engineer to join one of our St. Louis, MO (Berkeley, Hazelwood, Saint Charles) based teams. Our St. Louis based teams are responsible for development, production, trainers, and sustainment for some of the most advanced defense and weapon systems in the world – including, but not limited to: Fighters/Tactical (F-47, F-15, F/A-18, F-22, & T-7A), Autonomous Systems (MQ-25), Precision Engagement Systems (JDAM, SDB, etc), and other advanced proprietary systems (Phantom Works) and platforms (AH-64, P-8, C-17, etc.). Our teams are currently hiring for a broad range of experience Systems Engineering disciplines including: Systems Architecture, Requirements and Interfaces Definition Systems Integration, Verification, & Validation Reliability, Maintainability, & System Health Human Factors & Ergonomics Operations / Systems Analysis Flight Crew Operations Integrations Crew Station Design & Integration

Requirements

  • Bachelor of Science degree
  • 4 or more years' related engineering experience
  • Prior Systems Engineering experience (i.e. system design, functional decomposition, requirements development, analysis, verification, and validation)
  • 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. Secret Clearance Post-Start is required.
  • Special Program Access or other Government Access Requirements may be required for these positions.

Nice To Haves

  • Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology (including Manufacturing Technology), Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry or non-US equivalent qualifications directly related to the work statement
  • Active U.S. Security Clearance
  • Leadership experience to include but not limited to engineering leadership roles and/or leading work and driving teams to success
  • Experience with Aircraft, Mission Systems and/or Weapon System development
  • Experience with verification and/or certification efforts (including supporting military safety critical and/or mission critical system hardware and software certification)
  • Experience leading cross-IPT architecture development
  • Experience leading systems engineering efforts supporting major program milestone reviews and proposal efforts
  • Experience with Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tools, such as Cameo, MSOSA or similar Systems Modeling Language (SysML)-compatible tool for systems architecture and model development
  • Technical understanding and experience with any of the following: DOORS, Cadece/Pspice, Python, C#, C++, JavaScript, Visual Studio, Subversion, Azure DevOps, Git, CAFTA, ReliaSoft or FaultTree+

Responsibilities

  • Lead the systems engineering efforts on new development, production, and/or sustainment programs, ensuring alignment with program goals and objectives.
  • Translate customer and operational needs into system performance requirements.
  • Guide cross-functional teams to define and maintain system requirements, interfaces, behaviors, and verification criteria for complex systems.
  • Perform analyses in affordability, safety, reliability, maintainability, testability, human factors, survivability, vulnerability, security, certification, and product assurance to achieve mission success.
  • Run design reviews and technical assessments, giving recommendations to improve system performance and reliability.
  • Maintain and improve requirements management, risk/issues/opportunity tracking, tools, and technology readiness assessment processes.
  • Lead the program in implementing and/or adopting the latest SE methodologies (e.g. Model Based Systems Engineering) to meet customer expectations.
  • Mentor, coach and advise engineers across the program in SE tools, techniques, planning and strategy.

Benefits

  • health insurance
  • flexible spending accounts
  • health savings accounts
  • retirement savings plans
  • life and disability insurance programs
  • paid and unpaid time away from work
  • 401(k) plan with company match
  • Student Loan Match
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