Ground Software Engineer; Mid Career - Millennium Space Systems

Ground Software Engineer (Mid Career) – Millennium Space Systems

Location:

El Segundo, CA

Team:
Ground Systems,
Millennium Space Systems
, a part of Boeing Defense, Space and Security.

Position:
As a Ground Software Engineer, you will support spacecraft production, integration, and test, focusing on dispositioning and root‑causing non‑conformances as they arise. You will also contribute to design based on integration and test experience, collaborating closely with technicians, integration and test engineers, and the design engineering team to deepen your understanding of spacecraft systems.

• Lead the design, development, integration, testing, and delivery of large‑scale ground software and mission control systems.
• Interact with other Millennium staff to support testing on components, subsystems, and spacecraft in test configurations.
• Integrate Millennium software applications into government‑furnished software and infrastructure.
• Execute integrated system test events bridging Millennium‑developed products and government‑furnished systems.
• Implement specific mission data processing applications into existing systems to support payloads and end data users.
• Support software testing and installation in classified environments.
• Guide junior developers through development tasks and troubleshooting exercises.
• Plan and execute validation/verification testing.
• Contribute to ground software or tool development by completing larger feature requests and owning software modules and workflows.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field.
• Five (5) or more years of experience designing and developing software in a production environment.
• Experience writing scripts and backend software applications in Python.
• Experience with Python web‑server frameworks (Twisted, Flask, FastAPI) and building RESTful web services with message broker architectures.
• Experience with backend development interacting with relational, time‑series, and document databases (Postgre
  
  SQL, Influx
  
  DB, Mongo
  
  DB).
• Comfortable building interactive UIs using JavaScript frameworks.
• Familiarity with Git Lab CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration using Docker, Podman, and Kubernetes.
• Experience with unit testing, integration tests, and end‑to‑end testing.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience with iterative and agile software development.
• Ability to obtain TS/SCI clearance.

• Active TS/SCI clearance.

• Must meet U.S. export control compliance requirements; “U.S. Person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. § 120.62.
• TS/SCI clearance is required.

This role will be on 1st Shift.

Total Rewards package includes competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities. Pay range: $128,350 – $188,750. Applications accepted until Feb. 09, 2026
.

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