Spacecraft Software Engineer (Associate or… at Boeing · El Segundo

Summary: Boeing is a leading aerospace company focused on innovation and collaboration. They are seeking a Spacecraft Software Engineer to develop software for satellites, ensuring functionality in orbit and supporting mission operations with updates and enhancements. Responsibilities: - Work collaboratively with hardware, control and system engineers to define and develop software requirements, architectures and designs suited for fault-tolerant spacecraft - Rapidly prototype novel software solutions to prove out the architecture/design concepts, quantify technical risk, and create new capabilities - Implement designs in C/C++, integrate software components, create and run unit tests, validate on Hardware-in-the-Loop and release real-time embedded solutions - Assist with system verification and qualification, assessing the outputs and documenting the results to ensure software products that meet system requirements and mission-critical standards - Be responsible for all phases of software development and problem resolution from program inception to post-launch support - Work with hardware engineers to verify hardware-hardware and hardware-software interfaces - Break down the software development needed for a program into smaller discrete tasks that can be given to others to implement and monitor their progress - Perform code reviews to ensure the software being developed is functionally correct, efficient, and meets our coding standards Required Qualifications: - 1+ years' experience in software or hardware engineering, requirements, design, development, test, and working with software and hardware - 1+ years of experience working with Linux - 1+ years of experience in C and C++ programming - 1+ years of experience writing embedded software within software development life-cycles - The ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship - An interim and/or final U.S. Top Secret Clearance Post-Start is required Preferred Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science - 3+ years of experience in C and C++ programming - Experienced in embedded environment and/or bare metal C on a microcontroller - Experience with concurrent HW/SW development - Experience with iterative and/or agile development processes - Experience with serial data protocols (HDLC, I2C, SPI) - Experience in Python programming - Experience in Verilog and FPGAs - Experience with git, JIRA, confluence - Knowledge of satellite systems and components - Level 2: 1 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience - Level 3: 3 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience Required Skills: C programming, C++ programming, Embedded software development, Linux, Software development life-cycle, Hardware-software interface, Fault-tolerant software architecture, Unit testing, Hardware-in-the-Loop testing, Serial data protocols, Python programming, Verilog, FPGA development, Git, JIRA, Confluence, Satellite systems Benefits: Health insurance, Flexible spending accounts, Health savings accounts, Retirement savings plans, Life and disability insurance programs, Paid and unpaid time away from work, Best-in-class 401(k) plan: we'll match your contributions dollar for dollar, up to 10% of eligible pay with immediate 100% vesting, Student Loan Match: The Boeing 401(k) Student Loan Match allows eligible enrolled U.S. employees to have their qualified student loan debt payments counted, along with any match-eligible contributions they make, for purposes of determining the Company Match to employees' Boeing 401(k) accounts.