Phantom Works Software Systems Engineer

Job Description

At Boeing, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. We’re committed to fostering an environment for every teammate that’s welcoming, respectful and inclusive, with great opportunity for professional growth. Find your future with us.

Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) is seeking a Software
Systems Engineer to join our team in one of the listed locations.

We are seeking Systems Engineers with Demonstrated ability to apply systems engineering principles in modern software environments, with strong understanding of Dev Sec Ops  pipelines, CI/CD practices, and cloud-native architectures. Candidates should be comfortable working across disciplines to integrate hardware, software, and mission systems in secure environments, collaborating closely with developers and test engineers to validate end-to-end functionality. Experience with containerized applications, automated build and test processes, and infrastructure as code is essential to ensuring system performance, security, and mission assurance.

The integration and test team will lead system-level integration, verification, and acceptance test activities to ensure software systems meet performance, reliability, and interoperability requirements in an operational environment.

Our teams are currently hiring for a broad range of experience levels including Associate and Experienced (Levels 2 or
3) System Engineers.

Position Responsibilities

• Review, develop, document, and maintain system requirements and traceability across the lifecycle.
• Define test strategies, plans, procedures, and acceptance criteria for component, integration, and system-level testing.
• Design and execute verification & validation activities (functional, interface, performance, reliability, regression).
• Analyze test results, perform root cause analyses, and recommend corrective actions.
• Collaborate across engineering disciplines, working closely with software developers, system architects, and test engineers to validate end-to-end functionality and mission effectiveness.
• Integrate hardware, software, and mission systems in secure DoD environments, ensuring interoperability, performance, and mission assurance.
• Apply modern Dev Sec Ops  practices—including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, containerized deployments, and infrastructure as code—to streamline integration and test activities.
• Stand up, configure, and maintain secure test environments leveraging cloud-native and virtualized resources (e.g., AWS Gov Cloud, Azure Government, or on-premise equivalents).
• Use model-based systems engineering (MBSE) and requirements management tools to support design, analysis, and traceability.
• Contribute to risk, issue, and opportunity management; assess and report technical readiness and critical path impacts.
• Drive continuous improvement of integration and test processes, incorporating automation, metrics, and lessons learned to increase efficiency and reliability.
• Document integration results and test findings for design reviews, readiness assessments, and formal customer deliverables.

Travel may be required up to 20% of the time;
Domestically 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)

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/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
• 2+ years related work experience or an equivalent combination of technical education and experience
• Strong systems thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Practical experience with requirements decomposition, requirements tracing and configuration management.
• Experience writing test plans and procedures and executing system-level integration and verification.
• Familiar with standard engineering tools such as requirements management (DOORS or similar), MBSE (MSOSA/Cameo or similar), test management, and common collaboration tools (Jira,…