Boeing Appoints Jinnah Hosein as Vice President of Software Engineering

Boeing has appointed Jinnah Hosein as Vice President of Software Engineering.

In this newly created role, Jinnah  will report to Greg Hyslop, Boeing Chief Engineer and Senior Vice President of Engineering, Test & Technology, and will focus on further strengthening Boeing's focus on software engineering across the enterprise.

"The continued advances in software makes excellence in software engineering an imperative for our business," said Hyslop. "Jinnah will be charged with defining and leading Boeing's strategy for software engineering, which includes providing capabilities, technologies, processes and secure and accurate systems to meet the needs of all our customers across the entire product life cycle."

Jinnah will lead a new, centralized organization of engineers who currently support the development and delivery of software embedded in Boeing's products and services. The team will also integrate other functional teams to ensure engineering excellence throughout the product life cycle.

Jinnah has extensive experience as a software engineering leader across several innovative, high-tech companies.

He joins Boeing after serving as vice president of Software Engineering for Aurora, a self-driving vehicle company, in Palo Alto, California. There, he led the company's software organization for the development of those vehicles and developed Aurora's high-integrity software life cycle to deploy autonomous architecture to on-road vehicles.

Previously, Jinnah held leadership roles at SpaceX, where he led software development for Falcon, Falcon Heavy, Dragon, Crew Dragon and other flight vehicles, and at Tesla, where he helped develop autopilot software.

In addition, he served as Google's director of software engineering for cloud networking and was one of the original members of Google's Site Reliability Engineering team.

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