Job Description

At Boeing, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. From the seabed to outer space, you can contribute to work that matters with a company where diversity, equity and inclusion are shared values. We’re committed to fostering an environment for every teammate that’s welcoming, respectful and inclusive, with great opportunity for professional growth. Find your future with us.

Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) is seeking Senior Flight Dynamics Software Developers for their Satellite Systems Division located in El Segundo, CA.

We are seeking engineers that are passionate about space and excited to work in a multi-disciplined, collaborative engineering environment that supports the design, development, and implementation of the orbital analysis software products used by astrodynamics analysts for space vehicle transfer orbit and on-station operations.

This position requires demonstrated experience within both the software and aerospace ecosystems, a diverse background of project experience, and the clear exhibition of superior judgment and decision making to engineer new solutions and capabilities.  Demonstrated critical thinking and troubleshooting skills are required.

Primary Responsibilities & Expectations:

• Partner with program astrodynamics counterparts to coordinate across a multi-disciplined engineering organization including teams such as systems engineering, attitude control, flight software, command and control, and space vehicle database teams to gather engineering inputs and determine the appropriate software implementation.

• Perform full life-cycle development including requirements definition, software architecture, design, implementation, unit, functional and integration, and formal qualification testing through documentation.

• Software implementation for space vehicles agnostic of the vehicle characteristics, transfer orbit type, operating orbit regime, propulsion system, and constellation.

• Adapt the software components to interface with new system architectures to meet program and customer needs; including but not limited to open system architectures and industry standard protocols.

• Highly motivated and must work well in a team environment.

This position allows telecommuting. The selected candidate will be required to perform some work onsite at one of the listed location options.

This position requires the ability to obtain a US Security Clearance, for which the US Government requires US Citizenship. A final U.S. Top Secret Clearance Post-Start is required

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience): 

• Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science or other related technical degrees.

• 5 + years of experience of software development using languages such as Java, C, Matlab or other similar languages.

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience): 

• Experience in a collaborative team environment using agile principles and a structured development process including code reviews and automated DevOps processes/tools.

• Experience using team collaboration tools including Git, Bitbucket, JIRA, and Confluence.

• Hands on experience in a satellite mission operational execution environment.

• 1+ years of experience related to satellite orbital mechanics, dynamics, design, or astrodynamics analysis (related to orbit determination, maneuver planning & reconstruction, ephemeris generation, station-keeping analysis, etc)

Typical Education/Experience:

Education/experience typically acquired through advanced technical education from an accredited course of study in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics or chemistry (e.g. Bachelor) and typically 9 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of technical education and experience (e.g. PhD+4 years' related work experience, Master+7 years' related work experience). In the USA, ABET accreditation is the preferred, although not required, accreditation standard.

Relocation: 

This position offers relocation based on candidate eligibility.

Referral Bonus:

Referral to this job is eligible for bonus

Drug Free Workplace (US Specific): 

Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace 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.

Shift (US Specific):

This position is for 1st shift

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Boeing is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.