Senior Systems Engineer
Boeing
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Job summary
The Boeing Company is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer in Kent, WA, to join Phantom Works Space. The role spans multiple programs within Advanced Systems Development, focusing on next-generation payloads and space technologies.
Responsibilities include requirements definition, system architecture, and cross-domain integration across mechanical, electrical, and thermal domains. Travel up to 10% domestically/internationally may be required.
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in engineering, engineering technology (including manufacturing engineering technology), chemistry, physics, mathematics, data science, or computer science
- 10+ years of experience in systems engineering.
Responsibilities
- Lead activities to plan, design, develop, and verify complex payloads and technologies.
- Analyze stakeholder needs to establish system requirements with traceability across the lifecycle.
- Conduct reviews for validation to ensure requirements are verifiable.
- Identify and control interactions across system boundaries to enable system capability.
- Define a system architecture balancing stakeholder requirements and interfaces.
- Create system representations and use models to aid technical understanding and decision-making.
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Senior Systems Engineer
The Boeing Company
Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) has an exciting opportunity and immediate need within Phantom Works Space for a Senior Systems Engineer to join our team based in Kent, WA.
Due to expanding business, we are looking for engineers with a multi-discipline skill set who can help develop next generation technologies for space applications.
Advanced Systems Development (ASD) is an organization within Phantom Works Space that develops cutting edge technologies to provide customers with needed capability and help enable new missions. This position will work across multiple programs within the ASD portfolio.
- Apply an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to lead activities to plan, design, develop, and verify complex payloads and technologies.
- Analyze the stakeholder needs and expectations to establish the requirements for a system or system element with traceability throughout the product lifecycle.
- Conduct reviews for validation to ensure requirements meet stakeholder needs and ensure requirements are verifiable.
- Identify, define, and control interactions across system boundaries in support of achieving a system capability that includes interactions such as mechanical, electrical, thermal, data, etc.
- Define a system architecture through system structure, interfaces, and associated derived requirements of the system or system element that balances all stakeholder requirements.
- Create a physical, functional, or logical representation of a system or system element and use system models for rigorous development of data and information to aid technical understanding and decision‐making across the lifecycle.
Travel may be required up to 10% of the time; Domestically and/or internationally depending on business needs.
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)
- Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in engineering, engineering technology (including manufacturing engineering technology), chemistry, physics, mathematics, data science, or computer science
- 10+ years of experience in systems engineering.
- Experience with the design and development payloads for space applications.
- Clear and confident communicator to technical and non-technical audiences at all levels of the organization.
- 15+ years of experience in system design, functional decomposition, requirements development, analysis, verification, and validation.
- Experience with Model Based Engineering tools and languages such as Enterprise Architecture, Cameo/MSOSA, UML/SysML, 3DX, CATIA.
- Experience with mentoring, coaching, guiding, and leading teams of junior and peer engineers.
Successful candidates for this job must satisfy the Company’s Conflict of Interest (COI) assessment process.
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.
This is a union-represented position.
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.
The Boeing 401(k) helps you save for your future, with contributions from Boeing that can help you grow your retirement savings. Our best-in-class retirement benefit features:
- _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.
Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.Summary pay range: $176,800 – $239,200
Not Applicable
Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent
This position offers relocation based on candidate eligibility.
This position must meet U.S. export control compliance requirements. To meet U.S. export control compliance requirements, a “U.S. Person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. §120.62 is required. “U.S. Person” includes U.S. Citizen, U.S. National, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee.
This is not a Safety Sensitive Position.
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)
Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.
This position is not contingent upon program award
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