
Mission Planning SME
Eglin Air Force Base, FL · HybridFull-time$147–159K/yrPosted 2 days agoStill listed 1 day ago
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Tapestry Solutions, a Boeing company, seeks a Mission Planning SME in Niceville, Florida, or Las Vegas, Nevada. The role connects warfighters with software development and test teams, translating operational needs into system requirements and evaluating software suitability. The SME also supports system architecture analysis, verification and validation, risk mitigation, and testing to ensure designs meet operational and functional requirements.
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Mission Planning SME
Company: Tapestry - G0G
Tapestry Solutions, A Boeing Company, brings over 30 years of industry experience designing, implementing, training, and supporting high-quality, cost-effective information technology and business intelligence solutions. With a dedicated team of approximately 500 professionals, we proudly serve 75 defense, commercial, and government clients across more than 50 U.S. locations and 9 countries worldwide.
As a trusted partner, our employees embody our core values by consistently delivering excellence, taking full ownership, and developing innovative solutions that enable critical missions and ensure the safety of our global customers and team members. Joining Tapestry Solutions means enjoying the best of both worlds: access to the vast resources of Boeing combined with the agility and people-focused, family-oriented culture of a small business where your contributions truly matter.
Tapestry Solutions, a part of Boeing Global Services (BGS), is seeking a Mission Planning SME in Niceville, FL or Las Vegas, NV. This position provides a vital link between the warfighter and software development and test team to ensure the warfighter’s requirements and recommendations are included in the development cycle. This role also evaluates customer and/operational needs to define and coordinate system performance requirements, integrate technical parameters and assure compatibility of all physical, functional and program interfaces. Additionally, this person will perform various analyses to optimize total system of systems and/or system architecture.
Position Responsibilities:
- Utilize aircrew experience to help Systems Engineers build software that meets the warfighters needs in an efficient, intuitive format
- Performs analyses on software environment to determine functionality and usability for the warfighter
- Acts as intermediary between Systems Engineers and active duty warfighters to determine issues and subsequent suitability for intended correction/fixes
- Integrates with Government test to ensure issues discovered are addressed and a path forward is obtained to prevent delays in the schedule
- Perform analysis to optimize total system and/or system architecture to solve complex mission planning problems
- Apply interdisciplinary, collaborative approaches to help plan, design, develop and verify system solutions.
- Define and coordinate system performance requirements and integrate technical parameters
- Define high level functional and performance requirements and verification methods, subsequent analysis, decomposition, and derivation of requirements, allocation of those lower-level requirements to physical and functional architectural elements, and tracking them through design, verification, integration, and operational validation
- Perform analyses for affordability, safety, reliability, maintainability, testability, survivability, human systems integration, survivability, vulnerability, susceptibility, system security, regulatory, certification, product assurance, product security (cyber security) and other specialties quality factors into a preferred configuration to ensure mission success
- Perform risk assessments and generate mitigation plans for various programs with regard to compliance with system requirements and customer capabilities
- Develop verification and validation methods, processes, logic, and plans in support of program milestones.
- Test and validate to ensure system designs meet operational and functional requirements
Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):
- Active U.S. Secret Clearance
- Bachelor’s degree or higher
- 5+ years of experience in mission planning
- 5+ years of aircrew experience in the F-15E/EX platform
- Are you skilled in leading strategic technical briefings and effectively communicating specialized mission planning information to domestic (USAF/USN) and foreign military customers?
Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):
- Experience with Joint Mission Planning System software
- Experience with application/daily use of JMPS by aircrew to accomplish needed planning to accomplish the mission Experienced background that allows them to understand modernization of the F-15, the use of new weapons/hardware, and application thereof
Drug Free Workplace: We are 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.
Pay & Benefits: We strive to deliver a total rewards package that will attract, engage and retain the top talent. Elements of this package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.
We also provide 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 and date of hire.
Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
Summary base pay range $147,050 - $158,622
Language Requirements: Not Applicable
Education: Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent
Relocation: Relocation assistance is not a negotiable benefit for this position.
Export Control Requirement: This position must meet U.S. export control compliance requirements. To meet U.S. export control compliance requirements, a “U.S. Person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. §120.62 is required. “U.S. Person” includes U.S. Citizen, U.S. National, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee.
Safety Sensitive: This is not a Safety Sensitive Position.
Security Clearance: This position requires an active U.S. Secret Security Clearance (U.S. Citizenship Required). (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active)
Visa Sponsorship: Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.
Contingent Upon Award Program This position is not contingent upon program award
Shift: Shift 1 (United States of America)
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How this job compares
Set against the 2,892 open Systems Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$147–159K/yr
- Florida median$115–168K/yr56 salary ranges
- US median$136–206K/yr2,101 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $153K, is 7% above the Florida median midpoint ($142K) — in the middle half of Systems Engineering salary ranges in Florida.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 96 open Systems Engineering jobs in Florida and 2,892 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Florida
- L3Harris16 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Systems Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (2,286 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 982 of the 2,892 open Systems Engineering jobs (34%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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