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.

The Boeing Space & Launch Division's Satellite Ground Mission Software Product’s organization is seeking a Software Engineer in Mesa, AZ. 

The successful candidate will develop, document and maintain architectures, requirements, algorithms, interfaces and designs for software systems. They will develop and maintain code and integrates software components into a fully functional software system. Develop software verification plans, test procedures and test environments, executing the test procedures and documenting test results to ensure software system requirements are met. Performs software project management and software supplier management functions. Develop, select, tailor and deploy software processes, tools and metrics. Executes and documents software research and development projects. Serves as a subject matter expert for software domains, system specific issues, processes and regulations. Tracks and evaluates software team and supplier performance to ensure product and process conformance to project plans and industry standards. Works under general direction.

Boeing is the world's largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial airplanes and defense, space and security systems. We are engineers and technicians. Skilled scientists and thinkers. Bold innovators and dreamers. Join us, and you can build something better for yourself, for our customers and for the world.

Position Responsibilities:

As a team member, you will be actively performing and growing the following skills:

• Developing, documenting and maintaining architectures, requirements, algorithms, interfaces and designs for software systems.

• Developing and maintaining code and integrating software components into a fully functional software system.

• Developing software verification plans, test procedures and test environments, executing the test procedures and documenting test results to ensure software system requirements are met.

• Performing software project management and software supplier management functions.

• Developing, selecting, tailoring and deploying software processes, tools and metrics.

• Executes and documents software research and development projects.

• Serves as a subject matter expert for the spacecraft command and control software domain, related industry standards, system-specific issues, processes and regulations.

• Tracks and evaluates software team and supplier performance to ensure product and process conformance to project plans and industry standards.

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 U.S. Security Clearance for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship.

A final U.S. Secret Clearance Post-Start is required

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• 5 or more years of experience in software development using C, C++, Java, and Shell, Perl, and/or Python.

• 5 or more years of experience working with Unix/Linux distributions using command line terminals and GUI based desktop environments.

• 5 or more years of software development experience in a collaborative team environment using agile principles and a structured development process including code reviews and automated DevOps processes/tools

• Familiar with reading, writing, and integrating XML formatted data described by XSD, while utilizing XML DOM, JAXB, XPath, and XInclude

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

General Qualifications

• Familiar with at least 1 COTS Spacecraft Command & Control Product, such as OS/Comet, InControl, Neptune, COSMOS, YAMCS, Hummingbird, HiFly, or others.

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

• Experience automating software builds, unit tests, integration tests, deployment, and installations using a DevOps tool chain (Jenkins, Nexus, Artifactory, etc)

• Experience using SonarQube and/or Coverity to instrument, trend and manage code quality

• Experience developing containerized microservices deployed into a cloud based orchestration framework such as AWS, Docker Swarm, or OpenShift.

• Familiar with primitive data type machine representations in binary, hexadecimal, IEEE754 encoding, twos complement encoding, sign magnitude encoding, digital/analog conversion, and endianness.

C/C++ Developer Qualifications

• Experience using C++ Standard Library and Boost Extensions with the GNU Compiler.

• Experience using a Graphical Interface Development Library for C++ (e.g. Gnome, Xlib, Qt, et al.)

• Knowledge of modern security facilities (e.g. SSH, SSL/TLS, Public/Private and AES Encryption, et al.)

• Ability to understand user interactions and develops a user experience that accomplishes the desired user interactions.

Java Developer Qualifications

• Experience in software development using Java 8+

• Experience building REST based services and/or applications that communicate with REST services

• Experience using Maven for build and dependency management for Java applications

• Experience building unit tests using Junit with a high level of code coverage

• Experience using MongoDB and PostgreSQL database engines for data persistence

Typical Education & Experience:

Education/experience typically acquired through advanced technical education from an accredited course of study in computer science (e.g. Bachelor) and typically 5 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of technical education and experience (e.g. PhD, Master+3 years' related work experience). In the USA, ABET accreditation is the preferred, although not required, accreditation standard.

Relocation:

This position does not offer relocation.  Candidates must live in the immediate area or relocate at their own expense.

Referral Bonus:

Referral to this job is eligible for bonus

Drug Free Workplace:

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.

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.