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Networking & Distributed Systems Researcher – Product Security Engineer

United States, Huntington Beach Employment contract 123350.00 - 186300.00 USD / Year · Job Posted July 13, 2026
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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. The Boeing Company is currently seeking a Product Security Engineer to support our Product Security Organization team located in Huntington Beach, CA. This position will focus on supporting the Boeing Research & Technology (BR&T). This position is for a networking and distributed systems researcher who will join the Product Security Organization within Boeing Research & Technology (BR&T) to conduct Networking and Cyber Security research. This position, within the Product Security Organization, involves supporting, leading, and developing software for new networking and cyber security concepts across tactical mobile ad-hoc network protocols, sensor protocols, airborne network overlays, or network management technologies. And mature the concepts and software to prove the feasibility of new network technologies, build prototypes to demonstrate the capability, and test and evaluate prototypes in relevant environments. Understanding and meeting the requirements of management, peers, customers, and product security stakeholders is essential for this role. The successful candidate must have excellent interpersonal and communication skills and be able to work effectively in a dynamic team environment spanning research and product teams. Additionally, they will need to facilitate the successful and secure transition of technology from the research environment to Boeing programs and external customers. The successful candidate will be capable of utilizing software tools to program in C, C++, Python, and shell scripts. Experience with routing and transport protocols, network-oriented middleware, wireless and satellite networking systems, networking for embedded systems, tactical communications systems, network management, Quality of Service (QoS), and traffic engineering is highly desirable. Demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality implementation, testing, and documentation results on past projects should be a key to selection. Experience with developing hardware abstraction layer designs and firmware is desirable. Being self-motivated, positive, and enjoying research-oriented projects while being challenged to learn new things is essential.

Job Responsibility

  • Serve as a lead product security engineer for new concepts across tactical mobile ad-hoc network protocols, sensor protocols, airborne network overlays, or network management technologies
  • Responsible for maturing the concepts and software to prove the feasibility of new network and cyber security technologies
  • Responsible for building of secure prototypes to demonstrate the capability, and the test and evaluation of prototypes in relevant environments
  • Drive software execution to deliver products on-cost and on-schedule to programs
  • Responsible for software product security, safety, assurance, quality, and engineering excellence, including alignment with PSO policies, controls, and best practices
  • Drive first time quality in all phases of software development lifecycle
  • Collaborate across multidisciplinary teams to integrate security-by-design into distributed networking systems and prototypes

Requirements

  • Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in engineering, engineering technology (includes manufacturing engineering technology), computer science, engineering data science, mathematics, physics, or chemistry or non-US equivalent qualifications.
  • This position requires eligibility for a US Top Secret Security Clearance, for which the US Government requires US Citizenship
  • 3+ years of network development experience (TCP/IP, UDP, sockets, HTTPS, REST interface)
  • 3+ years of experience designing and developing software using Python, C/C++, C# and/or Java
  • 3+ years of experience with end-to-end knowledge of network transport technologies, systems, environments, services, protocols, performance monitoring and diagnostic analysis
  • 1+ years of experience with Linux Kernel architecture and key areas of implementation

Nice to have

  • 5+ years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience
  • Experience leading projects, interfacing with customers, and demonstrating an ability to deliver high quality implementation, testing, and documenting results
  • Experience working with leadership, peers, and internal and external customers to understand and drive requirements
  • Experience with developing hardware abstraction layer designs and firmware
  • Experience with DevOps techniques

What we offer

  • Generous company match to your 401(k)
  • Industry-leading tuition assistance program pays your institution directly
  • Fertility, adoption, and surrogacy benefits
  • Up to $10,000 gift match when you support your favorite nonprofit organizations

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