Experienced Software Design Engineer (p-8 Mission Systems)

Boeing Boeing · Aerospace · Kent, WA

Experienced Software Design Engineer for Boeing's P-8 Mission Systems Software team in Kent, WA. Responsibilities include defining requirements, developing architecture and system-level designs, testing, and supporting system functionality. Focus on the P-8 Poseidon program, an Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) platform. Requires experience as a Software Systems Engineer with full software development lifecycle knowledge, critical thinking, and troubleshooting skills.

What you'd actually do

  1. Designs, develops, analyzes, and maintains software systems that meet industry, customer, and internal quality, safety, security and certification standards.
  2. Partners with appropriate stakeholders to inform system definition and translate system-level requirements into software requirements and models that meet customer, operational needs, performance requirements and have clear traceability to design, code and test artifacts.
  3. Completes software system-level analyses to identify risks, issues and opportunities; integrates and deploys mitigation actions throughout the software lifecycle.
  4. Performs code reviews to ensure alignment to requirements and standards.
  5. Monitors and reviews test completion, verification processes, and issue resolution for software systems.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in engineering, engineering technology, mathematics, data science, or computer science with 3 or more years of engineering work experience.
  • Software Systems Architecture experience
  • Software Requirements writing experience
  • Interface design and control document experience

Nice to have

  • Troubleshooting H/W and S/W issues in a complex environment
  • Scripting languages: XML, Pearl, Python
  • Use case development
  • Supporting contractual deliverables
  • Development of User Interface design
  • Experience in Weapons Integration on military platforms
  • Experience with customer or governmental regulations relevant to design, test, and certification
  • Experience in engineering discipline(s) (e.g., electrical, mechanical, software engineering) applied to product related systems throughout the product development life cycle, from concept development to deployment
  • Experience in format requirements, guidelines, and change control processes.
  • Experience with relationships between specifications/standards and aircraft/product certification systems
  • Experience in how to derive and allocate requirements (e.g., system, sub-system, software) and show traceability throughout the product lifecycle
  • Experience with implementation, validation, and verification processes, practices, and guidelines to ensure software development quality, performance, and safety

What the JD emphasized

  • US Citizenship required
  • Ability to obtain a Secret U.S. Security Clearance