Experienced Software Engineer
About The Position
Boeing Global Services is currently seeking a highly motivated Experienced Software Engineer to become part of the Training Systems - Battlespace Simulation Management (BSM) team in Hazelwood, Missouri. This position will support one of our programs in the Air Dominance portfolio. The role involves building the next generation of flight simulators to train military pilots, developing subsystems for Boeing Flight Trainers such as the Instructor/Operator Station, Brief/Debrief Station, Synthetic Environments, and core building block technologies. The BSM team is responsible for the design, development, manufacture, and maintenance of training devices for a wide variety of aircraft. Software engineers on this team are responsible for all phases of the software lifecycle, including architecture, design, implementation, and test, and are involved in planning their own work within an agile methodology. The team is comprised of several smaller agile teams, with a backlog ranging from new feature development to maintenance of legacy software. The successful candidate will be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment within a two-week sprint schedule and will support the entire product development life cycle within BSM.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Ability to acquire a U.S. Secret Security Clearance (Post-Start)
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering
- Experience with programming in C, C++ or C#
- Experience working in an Agile software development methodology environment
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 5+ years of related work experience OR Bachelor’s Degree and 9+ years of directly related work experience OR 13+ years of related, relevant experience
- Prior experience with object-oriented software architecture / design patterns
- Prior experience with Python, Lua or OpenGL is a plus
- Developing applications targeted for desktop as well as mobile/tablet environments
- Experience with tools for Continuous Integration/Delivery, Version Control, and Build Automation
- Familiarity with tools such as Jira, Jenkins, Gitlab, CMake, Visual Studio
- Familiarity with simulation standards such as Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS), Distributed Mission Operations (DMO), and High Level Architecture (HLA)
- Experience with aircraft platforms, aviation, simulation, and training systems is beneficial
- Strong written and verbal communication skills along with the ability and desire to work in a team environment
Responsibilities
- Leads the design, architecture, and development of simulation models, simulation visualizations, virtual environments/platforms and frameworks
- Partners with stakeholders to lead the review and identification of simulation requirements and dynamics of the systems being simulated.
- Leads validation, verification, and refinement of simulation software code, models, simulations, test procedures and test environments, executing test procedures, documenting test results and modeling against real-world data, test data, benchmarks, or other similar models
- Leads the documentation and maintenance of technical code, algorithms, specifications and descriptions of simulation models
- Partners with cross functional engineering teams to lead integration of simulation software with hardware devices and systems
- Leads implementing current and emerging technologies, tools, frameworks, and methods in the software engineering simulation environment
- Leads simulation software project management functions
- Promotes continuous improvement with ideas for process, tool, and automation improvements
- Plans and executes work within a scrum team using scaled agile practices
- Represents the organization as the prime technical contact on contracts and projects
- Interacts with senior external personnel on significant technical matters often requiring coordination between organizations
- Support proposal development and lead engineering execution by identifying activities, resources, and tasks required to complete the work statement
- Mentor junior engineers and foster innovation within the team
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
