Senior Software Engineer

Boeing Boeing · Aerospace · Oklahoma City, OK

Senior Software Engineer at Boeing responsible for leading the design, development, testing, and maintenance of non-embedded software throughout the end-to-end lifecycle, ensuring compliance with industry, customer, safety, and regulatory standards. This role involves translating requirements into designs, coordinating development, debugging issues, and ensuring reliability and efficiency of software products within a safety-critical context.

What you'd actually do

  1. Leads the design, development, test, and maintenance of non-embedded software throughout the end-to-end lifecycle that meets industry, customer, safety, and regulation standards.
  2. Leads review, analysis, and translation of customer requirements into initial design of software products.
  3. Coordinates the development, maintenance, enhancement and optimization of software products and functionalities for systems integrations.
  4. Leads activities to develop, document and maintain architecture, requirements, algorithms, interfaces and designs for software products.
  5. Debugs and leads resolution of issues identified to ensure the reliability and efficiency of software products.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's Degree
  • Designs, develops, tests, and maintains safety‑critical embedded software across the full product lifecycle, ensuring compliance with industry, customer, safety, and regulatory requirements.
  • Translates customer and system requirements into robust, testable software architectures and detailed designs, implements and optimizes software components and algorithms for system integration and performance, and creates and maintains comprehensive documentation including requirements traceability, design descriptions, test plans, and release notes.
  • Leads verification and validation activities (unit, integration, system, regression), produces certification evidence and safety artifacts, and debugs and resolves defects and field issues to maximize reliability and availability.
  • Responds to user inquiries and technical support tickets, incorporates user feedback into prioritized improvements, and evaluates and adopts emerging technologies, tools, frameworks, and regulatory changes to keep the software and processes current.
  • Establishes, monitors, and continuously improves development processes, toolchains, and KPIs to align teams with organizational objectives and industry benchmarks, plans and executes R&D projects and feasibility studies, and provides domain expertise on software architecture, safety analyses, compliance, and lifecycle practices.

Nice to have

  • Develop Mission Systems Software Architecture
  • Fluency in both UML and SysML
  • Fluency in MBSE practice and Model Driven Software Engineering
  • Ability to translate customer needs into non-functional requirements/quality attributes
  • Ability to translate non-function requirements/quality attributes into known software architecture patterns
  • Ability to manage and trade off multiple concurrent issues, ambiguities, and contradictions in non-functional requirements/quality attributes
  • Reverse Engineering Software Architecture of legacy code
  • Refactoring Software Architecture
  • Product Line development/ Product Line Software Architecture

What the JD emphasized

  • safety-critical embedded software
  • industry, customer, safety, and regulatory requirements
  • certification evidence and safety artifacts