Boeing plans to open a 50-employee data analytics and software development lab in Yaletown in mid-September that will bring its Metro Vancouver workforce to 250, the company announced August 11.
Dubbed Vancouver Labs, the facility will make software that will broadly help airlines and other aircraft operators be more efficient operationally.
Boeing also employs about 200 workers in Richmond, through what has been a subsidiary known as Aeroinfo.
Aeroinfo will rebrand and become known as Boeing Vancouver, which will be the official Boeing subsidiary that employs the 250 Metro Vancouver workers.
“The new lab will largely be software engineers and data scientists and those are typically well-paid jobs,” Boeing spokesman Mike Pound told Business in Vancouver.
The new Vancouver Labs will be at 1146 Homer Street in space that formerly occupied longtime Vancouver company Blast Radius.
“The expansion represents a natural extension of Boeing Vancouver’s analytics, software development and professional consulting work,” said Boeing Vancouver president Bob Cantwell in a release.
“As one of the largest analytics groups within Boeing, we are well suited to house the new Vancouver Labs, which will focus on delivering data-driven solutions at a rapidly increased pace over traditional development.”
The new Boeing office was also announced at the Aerospace, Defence and Security Expo in Abbotsford.
