Job Description Summary

Are you an Embedded Software Engineer who loves working on innovative technologies If so GE Aerospace Defense and Systems wants you to join their Emerging Technologies team in Grand Rapids MI. You will be part of a cross-functional team that develops innovative solutions for capabilities on custom hardware. You will work on projects related to stores management cyber security networking sensing and signal processing and AI/ML.

To apply for this position you need to be a U.S. citizen and hold a U.S. Security Clearance. You also need to move to Grand Rapids MI but dont worry GE will provide comprehensive corporate relocation assistance.

GE Aerospace is a leader in inventing the future of flight. GE offers competitive salaries and a full range of benefits including 401K contributions and matching flexible work arrangements generous time off tuition reimbursement and various health insurance options.

If you are interested in this exciting opportunity please apply today!

Job Description

Role Description

As a Lead Engineer Embedded Software Development you will play a vital role in designing developing and testing Embedded Software (Firmware) platforms and systems for our mission-critical technologies and products. You will work with a team of passionate and skilled engineers who share your vision of creating innovative and reliable embedded systems. To succeed in this position you will need a background in embedded systems a keen eye for detail and a deep understanding of real-time systems and their constraints. You will also need to demonstrate your ability to take full ownership of your role and deliver high-quality software solutions. The role has moderate autonomy requiring high levels of operational judgment.

Responsibilities

• Designs and/or programs/develops a small module or a large component feature set of features whole feature area or entire embedded software product.
• Define and formalize system hardware software and human integration requirements.
• Define and execute engineering test validation and verification activities.
• Follow established software development methodologies and principles and document your tasks and designs.
• Validate and verify software designs in a diversity of system integration environments from local desktop computer simulations to fully representative flight tests.
• Implement protocols and algorithms for resource-constrained environments and collaborate with the hardware team to enable communication between modules and applications.
• Ensure software robustness resilience and fail-safe operation for critical devices and mitigate potential safety and security vulnerabilities.
• Create detailed design and technical documentation optimize existing applications and implement new features.
• Participate in task prioritization execution requirements specifications code and design reviews and mentorship across the software development life cycle.
• Apply best practices for software engineering and understand the key business drivers and product roadmap.
• Deliver your work to support project scope cost and schedule targets and interface effectively with all levels of the organization and customers.
• Propose novel solutions to technical challenges generate cost and time estimates for future bids and programs and utilize hardware/software to demonstrate capability against customer expectations.

Required Qualifications

• Grand Rapids MI opportunity - Corporate relocation assistance provided.
• BS 5 years of related software engineering experience or MS 2 years of experience in Computer Science Electrical Engineering Mathematics Physics or related fields
• Proficiency in C C or equivalent languages.
• U.S. Citizen and holds a security clearance.
• Grand Rapids MI opportunity - Corporate relocation assistance provided.

Desired Qualifications

• Masters degree in engineering or computer science with extensive experience in Ada C/C for embedded software design development and testing.
• Knowledge of scripting languages (Python Perl Tcl etc.) and code management tools (Git CVS SVN Perforce etc.)
• Experience with RTOS (Linux FreeRTOS QNX VxWorks etc.) and device drivers for complex systems using parallel processing multi-threading distributed processing multi-core SoM and/or secure processing.
• Experience with embedded software testing debugging and integration on hardware using debuggers (gdb lldb etc.) test equipment (scopes analyzers multi-meters etc.) and UARTs JTAGs and oscilloscopes.
• Experience working in mission-critical industries (aerospace automotive defense first responder medical devices etc.) and turning CONOPS Specifications or Requirements into software design code test plans and execution.
• Innovative critical thinking and troubleshooting skills and proficiency with IDEs version control tools defect tracking tools and scripting tools.
• Experience with bare metal software design and optimization for cycles and memory and fundamental facility with compilers build and source code control tools.
• Experience with model based engineering on Cameo.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Knowledgeable of system interfaces (e.g. Ethernet Mil-Std-1553 Serial).
• Knowledgeable of component interfaces (e.g. I2C SPI PCIe).

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