Senior Software Engineer - Product Lead (experienced or senior) Virtual

The Boeing Company is currently seeking Senior Software Engineer - Product Lead to support our Common Embedded Product Composition team located in Daytona Beach, Florida | Long Beach, California | Mesa, Arizona | Plano, Texas or Saint Louis, Missouri. This position will focus on supporting the Enterprise Software Verticals (ESV) organization. 

Join our Enterprise Software team to design and deliver common embedded software that will be deployed across Boeing’s entire portfolio—commercial airplanes, defense systems, space vehicles, rotary-wing platforms, and autonomous systems. In this exciting role, you will have a unique opportunity to directly support exciting new Boeing projects, from autonomous electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircrafts to air superiority aircrafts critical to our nation’s defense.  

You’ll build safety- and security-first software that scales from flight-critical avionics to mission systems and everything in-between. In this role, you will have the opportunity to join our Product Composition team that is at the center of direct engagement and delivery with programs, in a Software Integrated Product Team (IPT) Leadership role. You will be responsible for working with programs to shape system requirements and architecture, then develop or re-use our common embedded software products to meet our program needs. This role is at the cutting edge of embedded development, using the latest and best tooling available in industry.  

In this role, you'll learn how to master the full software lifecycle. You'll work hand-and-hand with system engineers, electrical engineers, FPGA, and other disciplines to ensure software meets the wholistic system needs. You'll work with the Safety community, including certification experts, to deliver safety critical software that supports manned flight. You'll work with our DevSecOps and Embedded Software developers to steer our Software Architecture. with a focus on reusability. You'll get hands-on experience with a magnitude of computing hardware, including various System of Chips (SoCs) including Intel, ARM, PowerPC and other architectures. You will coordinate with Software suppliers, including RTOS vendors, and integration of their product into our system. You'll coordinate with Program Managers to help manage schedules, risks, opportunities, and budgets.

If you’re excited by the opportunity to create reusable, high-performance, certifiable building blocks that reduce program risk, shorten delivery cycles, and enable innovation across Boeing, this is the team to make that impact. Come join the team building advanced air vehicles - that one day, in the near-future, you'll be able to enjoy safety riding with your own family. Join us and let’s create something amazing! 

Our teams are currently hiring for a broad range of experience levels including Experienced and Senior Level Software Engineers. 

Position 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. 

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/ Experience): 

• 5+ years of experience in programming languages such as C, C++, Python or Java 

• 3+ years of experience in real time or embedded software development, including Board Support Package (BSP) & Driver integration 

• 3+ years of experience in engineering project planning or project management 

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience): 

• Experience in Real Time Operating Systems such as VxWorks, DEOS, Integrity-178, RTOS 

• Experience in experience in software requirements, architecture/design, coding, integration, and test 

• 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

• Level 3: 5 or more years’ related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience

• Level 4: 9 or more years’ related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience  

• Knowledge of specification format requirements, guidelines, and change control processes. Understanding of relationship between specifications/standards and aircraft/product certification systems

• Knowledge of various engineering disciplines such as electrical, mechanical, and systems. The ability to communicate with technical personnel from multiple skill areas and functions to evaluate technical information and issues impacting design, production, and support of products, services, or other deliverables

• Knowledge of programming languages (e.g., C#, Java, Java 2 Enterprise and Mobile Editions (J2EE, J2ME), C++, Visual Basic, C, Assembly, Ladder Logic, Numerical Control (NC) Programming, Matlab)

• Knowledge of communications, networking, and protocols (e.g., Transport Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Extensible Mark-up Language (XML), Wireless Access Protocol (WAP))

• Knowledge of computing equipment and its operating systems (e.g., Windows, Unix, Linux)

• Knowledge of software development and testing tools (e.g., editors, compilers, linkers, desktop simulations, configuration management tools, requirements management tools) capability and usage

• Ability to apply knowledge of database engines to the design of databases and reporting structures. Ability to integrate hardware and software components into a functional system

•  Knowledge of software testing and usability theory. Knowledge of testing, usability practices. Ability to write and execute test scripts and perform usability analyses

• Knowledge of general and real-time software development and testing tools, capability and usage. Real-time tool examples include cross compilers, target debuggers and test/performance instrumentation

• Knowledge of domains, characteristics, constraints and products that require real-time software and influence architecture, requirements, interfaces, designs, and integration/test approaches.  

• Knowledge of real-time target environments, including processor and network architectures, communication protocols, simulation frameworks and electrical interfaces

• Ability to build, integrate and troubleshoot software components. 

• Knowledge of how to derive and allocate requirements (e.g., system, sub-system, software) and show traceability throughout the product lifecycle

• Knowledge of software architecture and design methodologies 

• Ability to synthesize software architectures and designs that meet requirements, characteristics and constraints

• Knowledge of supplier assessment processes including Preferred Supplier Certification and Work Transfer Process. Elements of assessment to include supplier's past performance, business processes, capacity plan, statement of work evaluation, risk mitigation plan, capabilities and lean practices in order to rate supplier viability to support the Boeing company's goals and objectives

• The ability to use established physical, mechanical, or scientific principles and perform appropriate tests to identify and solve problems encountered on the job. This includes the ability to locate and isolate the problem, identify possible solutions, and select approaches that are practical and effective

Drug Free Workplace: 

Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace (DFW) where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies. 

Travel: 

10%

CodeVue Coding Challenge:   

To be considered for this position you will be required to complete a technical assessment as part of the selection process. Failure to complete the assessment will remove you from consideration.