Advanced Technologist position in The Boeing Company

Event Notification Type: 
Other
Location: 
The Boeing Company
State: 
Alabama
Country: 
United States
City: 
Huntsville
Submission Deadline: 
Thursday, 5 February 2015

Job Description

The Boeing Company, invites applications for an entry Advanced Information Technologist position focusing on Text Analytics. A successful candidate will become part of the growing Boeing Research & Technology, Boeing’s central R&D organization, Analytics and Simulation organization in Huntsville, AL and work in the new Center for Applied Simulation and Analytics.

Our organization partners with Boeing business units to advance towards widespread application of modeling, simulation, and analytics across the lifecycle of our aerospace and defense products. Our research and development projects provide Boeing employees with better knowledge and tools increasing the value of our products and services. Projects include sponsors in Boeing Commercial Airplanes and Boeing Defense, Space & Security.

A successful candidate will be able to work in the dynamic and distributed BR&T environment. An employee will typically work on multi-year projects that end with capability transitions. Project work can be funded by Independent Research and Development, Internal Application Development, Contracted Research and Development, or support to a Business Unit. An employee will work on a small project team where the knowledge and abilities of each person is important. The work is often simply described and the employee needs to be self-directed to organize and perform the work. Collaboration with others is important to successful project performance as is good communication with the project manager, principle investigator, and sponsor. The employee also needs to be able to work effectively in virtual geographically distributed teams. An employee is typically hands-on, likes to figure things out, enjoys learning new things, and is good at applying what they have learned.

A successful candidate will have general knowledge in data analysis and text analysis algorithms such as data mining, statistics, machine learning, natural language processing, text mining, information extraction, summarization, categorization, and sentiment analysis. They will have the general ability to design, apply, and create new algorithms, methods, and tools for the analysis of data to address project requirements. They will have the general ability to evaluate the performance of data analysis algorithms as well as general ability to select and apply algorithms to meet application requirements.

A successful candidate will have skill and ability to: collect, organize, transform, synthesize, and analyze data; summarize and present findings; develop conclusions and recommendations from appropriate data sources at the work group level.

A successful candidate will not be constrained by the thoughts or approaches of work group members or inter-organizational employees. They will generally draw upon multiple and diverse sources (individuals, disciplines, bodies of knowledge) for ideas and inspiration. They will combine ideas in unique ways or make connections between disparate ideas; explore different lines of thought.

Boeing is the world's largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial airplanes and defense, space and security systems. We are engineers and technicians. Skilled scientists and thinkers. Bold innovators and dreamers. Join us, and you can build something better for yourself, for our customers and for the world.

Qualifications

Level 2:
Technical bachelor's degree and typically 2 or more years' related work experience or a Master's degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience. A technical degree is defined as any four year degree, or greater, in a mathematic, scientific or information technology field of study.

Level 3:
Technical bachelor's degree and typically 5 or more years' related work experience or a Master's degree with typically 3 or more years' or a PhD degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience. A technical degree is defined as any four year degree, or greater, in a mathematic, scientific or information technology field of study.

Other Job Related Information

Job Type: Full-time
Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time
Relocation Authorized?: Yes
Contingent Upon Program Award?: No

To Apply:
Please visit Boeing's career page at http://bit.ly/1ILyMRj