Boeing Research & Technology Graduate Researcher – Guidance, Navigation, Control and Autonomy Intern

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At Boeing, we are all innovators on a mission to connect, protect, explore and inspire. From the seabed to outer space, you’ll learn and grow, contributing to work that shapes the world. Find your future with us.

Join our exclusive Graduate Researcher Program (GRP) in Boeing Research & Technology during the summer of 2025 and you can build something better for yourself, for our customers and for the world. The intent of the Boeing Graduate Researcher program is to invite participants back for repeated work experience opportunities and offer a full-time position post PhD graduation.

Boeing Research & Technology is Boeing's global research and development team creating and implementing innovative technologies that make the impossible possible and enabling the future of aerospace. We are engineers, skilled scientists, thinkers, bold innovators and dreamers. 

What is Graduate Researcher Program? 

The GRP (Graduate Researcher Program) is a unique 10-12 week internship program designed specifically for students pursuing their PhD. GRP is a hybrid experience of real-world industry work experience combined with development programming that exposes students to Boeing, its products and services and its people.  GRP focuses on deeply connecting students to their team and Boeing through repeated work experience across multiple summers with the goal to ultimately offer a full-time position at the conclusion of academic studies if a mutual fit is achieved. 

How GRP Works: 

Upon application and selection, successful applicants are matched with an intern experience and team related to their area of expertise. The program aims to provide interns with a valuable opportunity to gain deeper experience at Boeing and with their assigned team, while also utilizing academic skills and expertise to help solve real-world industry challenges and opportunities. 

In addition to industry work exposure, GRP students will attend GRP programming to extend their experience and knowledge at Boeing.  GRP programming includes:  mentorship in your field of study, weekly Featured Speaker Talks, a week-long in-person GRP Summit, participation in an Innovation Challenge, and other opportunities to interact and build a professional network with other GRP students, Boeing team members, and leadership. 

Please note:  The work you do at Boeing can be related to your area of study, but will not contribute to the work in your PhD thesis.    

Who we are looking for:  

We are seeking students who will have completed their first year of study in their PhD program by July 2025 and are passionate about the aerospace industry and Boeing. GRP students excel at quickly adapting to their roles, analyzing complex problems, and developing innovative solutions. They thrive in collaborative team environments and possess excellent communication skills. Above all, they are driven to contribute to the success of their team, fellow GRP students, and Boeing. 

This GRP position is with the BR&T Guidance, Navigation, Control & Autonomy team in Seattle, WA. The selected candidate will work with other Boeing engineers to address research and development challenges in the areas of guidance, navigation, flight controls, and autonomy. As these areas span a wide range of technologies, the particular assigned work will depend on the strengths and interests of the candidate as well as the most current programmatic needs and priorities.

With guidance from senior engineers, the candidate will perform R&D to mature technologies needed for areas such as advanced control system design and analysis methods and tools, dynamic system modeling and sim, estimation, uncertainty quantification, trajectory optimization, and technologies needed to enable increased automation and full autonomous operations. With guidance, the candidate is expected to have the ability to analyze and develop solutions to complex problems. 

The work involves aspects from problem solving, design, coding / implementation, mathematical modeling and simulation, testing, and analysis. The candidate will carry out experiment design, testing, and results analysis as well as prepare reports and give presentations.  

This position is hybrid. This means that the selected candidate will be required to perform some work onsite at one of the listed location options.  This is at the hiring team’s discretion and could potentially change in the future.

Travel: 0 – 10%  

This position must meet export control compliance requirements. To meet export control compliance requirements, a “U.S. Person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. §120.15 is required.  “U.S. Person” includes U.S. Citizen, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee. 

These positions require the ability to obtain U.S. Security Clearance for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship. An interim and/or final U.S. Secret Clearance Post-Start may be required.

Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status. 

Basic Qualifications for all positions (Required Skill/Experience):  

• The ability to work a minimum of 10 weeks (12 weeks preferred) during the summer of 2025.

• Completed the first year of your PhD studies by July 2025.

• Experience with dynamic system modeling and simulation, control system design and analysis theory and methods, estimation, optimization, advanced mathematics, Monte Carlo analysis, MATLAB, Simulink, C or C++, object-oriented design, system architecture, and autonomous systems is desired. Some familiarity with machine learning, AI, probabilistic reasoning and decision making, or messaging standards and service-oriented architectures is a plus. 

• PhD candidate in Aeronautical/Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering. 

Preferred Qualifications:  

• The candidate must also have good team collaboration skills and good communication skills. 

Relocation: 

This position offers relocation based on candidate eligibility.  

Drug Free Workplace: 

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. 

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This position is for 1st shift.

Union Representation Statement:

These positions are in multiple U.S. locations and may or may not be covered by a collective bargaining agreement. In locations where SPEEA representation applies, this job family will be covered by the terms of the collective bargaining agreement. Applicable and appropriate educational/certification credentials from an accredited institution and/or equivalent experience is required. 

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. 

Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
 

Summary pay range: $88,000

Posting End Date:

Applications for this position will be accepted through November 6, 2024.

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