Job Description Summary

Working at GE Aerospace means you are bringing your unique perspective, innovative spirit, drive, and curiosity to a collaborative and diverse team working to advance aerospace for future generations. If you have ideas, we will listen. Join us and see your ideas take flight!

Engineering is at the center of what we do, and we are looking for talented, innovative engineers who can help us design and develop products for today, tomorrow, and in the future. If you are a dreamer, doer, and inventor who wants your voice to be heard and see your ideas take flight, this is the opportunity for you.


The Lead Software Engineer (LSE) will act as the subject matter expert (SME) for assigned product areas, providing technical oversight and guidance to ensure successful full-lifecycle embedded software development and DO-178C certification.

Job Description

The Platform Software group develops embedded software for a multitude of product areas at GE Aerospace across both civil and military markets including avionics computing and networking, flight management, vehicle health and data management, and mission systems.  Platform Software includes items such as firmware, board support packages, boot loaders, integration of real-time operating systems (RTOS), and other services such as data loaders and built-in tests.

Role Summary:

The Lead Software Engineer (LSE) will be responsible for subject matter expertise (SME) for assigned product areas.  They will provide technical oversight and guidance for their product area to successfully complete full-lifecycle embedded software development efforts through DO-178C certification.

Responsibilities:

In this role, you will focus on the following areas of responsibility:

Software Development

• Perform full lifecycle software development of embedded flight software to meet a set of system requirements

• Define software requirements and generate model-based design

• Develop and integrate source code on GE Aerospace’s computing hardware

• Create tests to ensure the software meets its intended functionality

• Participate in software aspects of certification as required by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

• Provide status on progress and issues

Subject Matter Expertise

For assigned product area:

• Develop and maintain expert level of product knowledge and application

• Provide technical ownership of all aspects of the software product design and artifacts

• Coordinate with customers and internal project stakeholders including Systems, Hardware, Safety, Security, Quality, and Certification

• Provide technical guidance and oversight to other team members also working on same product area

Development Approach

• Demonstrate a behavior of continuous improvement with the goal of helping the business deliver on customer commitments

• Incorporate Product Line Engineering (PLE) practices to maximize reuse

Qualifications / Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited university or college

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in computer software related technology and embedded real-time systems / software development

Desired Characteristics:

Education

• Master's degree in an Engineering related field from an accredited university or college

Technical Leadership

• Familiarity with Earned Value Management and Activity Based Management methods

• Familiarity with Agile Scrum

Process

• 5 years of experience with DO-178B/C avionics software development processes and certification standards

• Familiarity with DO-254, DO-297, and ARP-4754 certification standards

• Application of Product Line Engineering (PLE) principles and tools to manage software lifecycle artifacts

• Application of Lean practices in a software engineering environment

Technology

• Knowledge of processing platforms, network products, real-time operating systems, and multi-core processor architectures

• Demonstrated expertise with ARINC-653 integrated modular avionics (IMA) based operating systems

Traits

• Self-starter, energizing, results oriented, and able to multi-task

• Strong written and oral communication skills with keen ability to target communication to specific audiences

* Up to 10% travel to customer, GE, and supplier sites may be required annually

* The location for this position is Grand Rapids, MI on at least a hybrid basis (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday in office)

At GE Aerospace, we have a relentless dedication to the future of safe and more sustainable flight and believe in our talented people to make it happen. Here, you will have the opportunity to work on really cool things with really smart and collaborative people. Together, we will mobilize a new era of growth in aerospace and defense. Where others stop, we accelerate.

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. If applicable, final offers will be contingent on ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.