Daniel Vaughan

Software Engineering Manager at Boeing

Greater Seattle Area

About

Experience

  • Boeing (Everett, Washington, United States)
    • Software Engineering Manager
      Apr 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 3 mos

      Manager of software development team performing research and development of future commercial aircraft technologies in the areas of Autonomy/AI/ML, and Guidance, Navigation, and Control. Projects our team supports include the X-66 transonic truss braced wing demonstrator, Wisk Gen6, 777X, and internal commercial autonomy research programs. Our team develops both onboard flight software as well as infrastructure software to enable efficient deployment while meeting the highest integrity, quality, and safety standards (up to DO-178c DAL A).

    • Associate Technical Fellow
      Jan 2023 - Apr 2023 · 4 mos

      Responsible for architecting and leading deployment of new model based system and software development methods and tools to aid in development and certification of safety-critical Flight Control systems and software.

    • Lead Engineer - 777X Autoflight Control Laws
      Apr 2020 - Jan 2023 · 2 yrs 10 mos

      Lead engineer of the Autoflight Control Laws team responsible for development and certification of automatic flight control laws on the Boeing 777X.

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant at University of Washington
    Aug 2003 - May 2004 · 10 mos

    Taught lab sections, graded papers/exams, and held office hours/tutoring for large (150 student) introductory statics engineering class

  • Flight Controls Summer Intern at Boeing
    May 2001 - Jul 2003 · 2 yrs 3 mos

    Intern in flight controls during summer months from 2001-2003. 2003: Developed python-based optimal control surface mixing scheme using real-time gradient descent solver. 2002: Performed pitch axis stability and performance analysis on canard controlled concept aircraft. Contributed to development of workflow automation tool. 2001: Compiled and classified airplane accident primary and contributing cause data from multiple databases to help inform Flight Control safety related R&D.