Job Description Summary

Working at GE Aerospace means bringing your unique perspective innovative spirit drive and curiosity to a collaborative and diverse team dedicated to advancing aerospace for future generations. We value your ideas and are eager to listen. Join us and watch your ideas take flight!

Engineering is at the heart of our operations and we seek talented innovative engineers to help design and develop products for today tomorrow and the future. If you are a dreamer doer and inventor who wants your voice to be heard and your ideas to take flight this is the opportunity for you.

Location: Grand Rapids MI

This position offers a blend of onsite and hybrid work arrangements requiring a presence in the office for 34 days each week. An extensive corporate relocation package is available for eligible candidates.


As a Senior Embedded Software Manager within the Platform & Test Software Engineering team you will exert a pivotal role in providing both people and technical leadership. Your mission will be to foster collaboration across engineering and business product areas to promote a unified Platform Software strategy. You will provide guidance mentoring oversight and tactical/strategic direction to our software team.

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Roles and Responsibilities:

• Guide the software team to ensure responsiveness reliability and functionality.

• Oversee talent management including recruitment staffing assessments and project assignments.

• Define and manage scope cost and schedule for your teams tasks ensuring alignment with project goals.

• Establish and monitor metrics to measure team progress and product completeness taking correction action as needed.

• Use daily management techniques focusing on continuous improvement aligning daily actions with strategic goals and addressing issues with a sense of urgency with your team.

• Utilize and manage suppliers as needed for projects.

• Provide personnel development opportunities including training career counseling and performance feedback.

• Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies tools and processes to enhance project outcomes.

• Drive productivity improvements by identifying and implementing best practices.

• Lead and/or contribute to cost estimation effort for project proposals.

• Proactively address potential roadblocks and streamline processes for your team.

• Engage with customers product leaders and industry to align software development with market needs internal R&D investment and product/technology roadmaps.

• Mentor technical teams throughout the software development life cycle including requirements design implementation verification & validation and certification.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering Software Engineering Computer Science or related field from an accredited institution.

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in computer software technology and embedded realtime systems/software development covering the full development life cycle.

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a leadership role within an engineering setting.

Eligibility Requirements:

• US Citizen:This role requires use of technical data subject to U.S. Government contract restrictions and this posting is only for U.S. Citizens. GE will require proof of status prior to employment.

Desired Characteristics:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience with DO178C avionics software development processes and certification standards.

• Masters degree in an Engineering related field from an accredited institution.

• Knowledge of DO254 DO297 and ARP4754 certification standards.

• Experience with Earned Value and Activity Based Management methods.

• Proven background in realtime embedded software architecture and design within an avionics environment working in crossfunctional teams.

• Proficiency in Model Based Design (MBD) for software architecture requirements and design of realtime systems.

• Demonstrated capability in leading largescale software development projects with focus on verification & validation.

• Experience in Continuous Build Testing and Integration solutions including hardware in the loop testing hardware emulation and hardware/software integration.

• Familiarity with computing platforms network products realtime operating systems and multicore processor architectures.

• Experience with realtime operating systems.

• Ability to influence product leadership and technology strategy.

• Experience leading global and virtual teams.

• Demonstrated leadership in applying and advancing stateoftheart software technologies.

• Strong communication skills capable of engaging with all organization levels.

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.

The base pay range for this position is $.00 $162100.00. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factorsincluding the candidates experience education and skill position is also eligiblefor an annual discretionary bonus based on apercentage of your base salary/ commission based on the posting isexpected to close on8/01/2025.

GE Aerospace offers comprehensive benefits and programs to support your health and along with programs like HealthAhead your physicalemotional financial and social wellbeing. Healthcare benefits include medical dental vision and prescription drug coverage; access to aHealth Coach from GE Aerospace; and the Employee Assistance Program which provides 24/7 confidential assessment counseling andreferral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Aerospace Retirement Savings Plan a 401(k) savings plan with company matchingcontributions and company retirement contributions as well as access to Fidelity resources and planning consultants. Other benefits includetuition assistance adoption assistance paid parental leave disability insurance life insurance and paid timeoff for vacation or illness.

GE Aerospace (General Electric Company or the Company) and its affiliates each sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs (i.e. isa Sponsor). Each Sponsor reserves the right to terminate amend suspend replace or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time andfor any reason in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a Sponsors welfare benefit plan or program. Thisdocument does not create a contract of employment with any individual

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