Software Engineer (Associate or Experienced)
Company:
The Boeing Company
The Boeing Company has an exciting opportunity for a Software Engineer to join the Space Intelligence and Weapons Systems (SI&WS) Daybreak team in Kent, WA.
Our teams are currently hiring for a broad range of experience levels including; Associate and Experienced Software Engineers.
The ideal candidate has hands‑on software engineering experience who’s passionate about breathing new life into signal‑processing systems and inventing the next generation of capabilities.
In this role you’ll dive into both legacy and modern codebases to craft reproducible, testable, and containerized processing pipelines that power mission‑critical analysis running at scale on AWS. Roll up your sleeves to read and wrap C, C++, and Fortran engines into Python‑driven workflows, ship robust unit and integration tests through our CI/CD pipelines, and own system‑level integration and end‑to‑end testing with internal and external partners. You’ll also get to design and implement brand‑new processing capabilities from the ground up - and when needed, refactor whole applications into cleaner, faster, and more maintainable solutions, turning decades of scientific code into reliable, production‑ready tools.
Position Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and maintain end‑to‑end signal‑processing software: ingest raw sensor data, run focusing, motion compensation, calibration, and produce analysis/feature outputs
- Invent and implement new processing capabilities from algorithm prototype to production‑ready code, collaborating with scientists and stakeholders to define requirements and acceptance criteria
- Analyze, read, and refactor legacy C, C++, and Fortran code; create Python wrappers or re‑implement modules natively in Python where it improves readability, testability, or performance
- Build reproducible, containerized processing artifacts (Docker) and package deployments (Helm charts or equivalent) for development, staging, and production
- Author and maintain comprehensive automated tests: unit, regression, integration, and end‑to‑end system tests, including numerical validation against golden datasets and defined tolerances
- Lead system‑level integration and cross‑team end‑to‑end testing with internal and external partners: define test plans, coordinate test events, exercise interfaces (ingest, metadata, telemetry, archive), capture anomalies, and drive remediation to closure
- Define, curate, and maintain representative test datasets, golden outputs, and validation harnesses to support continuous integration and acceptance testing
- Integrate CI/CD pipelines to automate builds, testing (including E2E integration tests) and deployments; gate releases with numerical and interface checks
- Profile and optimize performance of processing chains; quantify tradeoffs between accuracy and runtime and implement targeted optimizations
- Implement observability and telemetry for batch and service workflows: metrics, logging, and traces that support automatic detection of regressions and rapid incident triage
- Troubleshoot numerical, runtime, and interface failures; perform root cause analysis and implement preventive measures and regression tests
- Produce clear developer and operator documentation, reproducible examples, runbooks, and onboarding materials for product teams and external partners
- Mentor teammates on legacy‑code practices, numerical validation, and robust testing patterns; contribute to team culture of quality, reproducibility, and collaboration
- Ensure security and compliance controls are integrated into the delivery pipeline and runtime environments
Security Clearance:
This position requires an active U.S. Top Secret Security Clearance (U.S. Citizenship Required) with eligibility for SCI access post-start (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active)
A final U.S. Top Secret/SCI Security Clearance post-start is required.
Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):
- An active U.S. Top Secret Security Clearance
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher
- 1+ years software development experience
- Professional experience with C, C++, C#, Python, Java, or Ada
Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):
- Level 3: 5 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience
- 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 and 5+ years of related work experience OR Bachelor’s Degree and 9+ years of directly related work experience OR 13+ years of related, relevant experience
- Experience with serverless or container orchestration
- Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools
- Prior exposure to regulated, safety-critical, or aerospace environments. teams.
- Understanding of delivery and reliability metrics (DORA or equivalent) and a desire to instrument and improve them
- Experience troubleshooting and incident response mindset for production systems.
- Clear communication skills and willingness to support teams and present to stakeholders and customers.
- 1+ years’ hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS or equivalent)
- 1+ years’ practical experience with containerization
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code concepts and at least introductory experience with tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK
- Basic experience with CI/CD systems
Conflict of Interest:
Successful candidates for this job must satisfy the Company's Conflict of Interest (COI) assessment process.
Work Location:
This position is expected to be 100% onsite. The selected candidate will be required to work onsite at one of the listed location options.
Relocation:
This position offers relocation based on candidate eligibility. Note: Basic relocation will be offered for eligible internal candidates.
Travel:
Position may require travel up to 10% of the time.
Union:
This is a SPEEA union-represented position.
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.
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.
Total Rewards:
At Boeing, we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract, engage and retain the top talent. Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.
The Boeing Company also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.
The specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.
Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
Summary Pay Range for Associate level (Level 2): USD $106,250 – $143,750 Summary Pay Range for Experienced level (Level 3): USD $135,150 – $182,850
Language Requirements:
Not Applicable
Education:
Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent
Relocation:
This position offers relocation based on candidate eligibility.
Export Control Requirement:
This is not an Export Control position.
Safety Sensitive:
This is not a Safety Sensitive Position.
Security Clearance:
This position requires an active U.S. Top Secret Security Clearance (U.S. Citizenship Required). (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active)
Visa Sponsorship:
Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.
Contingent Upon Award Program This position is not contingent upon program award
Shift:
Shift 1 (United States of America)
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