Senior Systems Engineer

Boeing•Kent, WA
•$176,800 - $239,200•Onsite

About The Position

Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) has an exciting opportunity and immediate need within Phantom Works Space for a Senior Systems Engineer to join our team based in Kent, WA. Due to expanding business, we are looking for engineers with a multi-discipline skill set who can help develop next generation technologies for space applications. Advanced Systems Development (ASD) is an organization within Phantom Works Space that develops cutting edge technologies to provide customers with needed capability and help enable new missions. This position will work across multiple programs within the ASD portfolio.

Requirements

  • Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in engineering, engineering technology (including manufacturing engineering technology), chemistry, physics, mathematics, data science, or computer science
  • 10+ years of experience in systems engineering.
  • Successful candidates for this job must satisfy the Company’s Conflict of Interest (COI) assessment process.
  • This position requires an active U.S. Top Secret Security Clearance (U.S. Citizenship Required). (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active)
  • To meet U.S. export control compliance requirements, a “U.S. Person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. §120.62 is required. “U.S. Person” includes U.S. Citizen, U.S. National, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee.

Nice To Haves

  • Experience with the design and development payloads for space applications.
  • Clear and confident communicator to technical and non-technical audiences at all levels of the organization.
  • 15+ years of experience in system design, functional decomposition, requirements development, analysis, verification, and validation.
  • Experience with Model Based Engineering tools and languages such as Enterprise Architecture, Cameo/MSOSA, UML/SysML, 3DX, CATIA.
  • Experience with mentoring, coaching, guiding, and leading teams of junior and peer engineers.

Responsibilities

  • Apply an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to lead activities to plan, design, develop, and verify complex payloads and technologies.
  • Analyze the stakeholder needs and expectations to establish the requirements for a system or system element with traceability throughout the product lifecycle.
  • Conduct reviews for validation to ensure requirements meet stakeholder needs and ensure requirements are verifiable.
  • Identify, define, and control interactions across system boundaries in support of achieving a system capability that includes interactions such as mechanical, electrical, thermal, data, etc.
  • Define a system architecture through system structure, interfaces, and associated derived requirements of the system or system element that balances all stakeholder requirements.
  • Create a physical, functional, or logical representation of a system or system element and use system models for rigorous development of data and information to aid technical understanding and decision‐making across the lifecycle.
  • Travel may be required up to 10% of the time; Domestically and/or internationally depending on business needs.
  • This position requires an active U.S. Top Secret Security Clearance (U.S. Citizenship Required). (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active)

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
  • Boeing 401(k) plan
  • Company Match to employees' Boeing 401(k) accounts
  • Student Loan Match
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