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This role is responsible for providingtechnical leadershipfor the software verification team on SMS platforms leading activities from planning through certification while setting technical direction mentoring team members and managing day-to-day task execution. The position ownsverification planning and strategy including developing and maintaining Software Verification Plans test strategies and coverage approaches to meet DO-178C DAL B verification objectives and customer/program requirements. The role drivestest development and automationby authoring and reviewing Software Test Plans automated test procedures unit tests and test suites (including robust and edge-case inputs) and leading the automation strategy and implementation. The engineer performsrequirements-based testingusing IBM DOORS to derive and manage test cases from requirements ensuring full requirements traceability and coverage across HLR LLR and unit levels. Responsibilities include managingtools and environments such as configuring and administering GitHub repositories and branching strategies and working within the AMD Vitis SDK and associated toolchains to build integrate and validate software on the Zynq UltraScale SOM. The role leadstest execution and analysis executing tests using tools such as VectorCAST Ballard Co-Pilot bus analyzers and oscilloscopes; analyzing results; investigating anomalies; and driving issues to root cause and corrective action. The position supportssafety and certificationby applying DO-178C DAL B MIL-STD-882E and MIL-HDBK-516C objectives to verification activities and contributing to safety assessments and certification data packages. It also overseesdefect management leading complex troubleshooting across software firmware and hardware interfaces in collaboration with design systems and hardware teams. The engineer ensures robustdocumentation and reportingthrough the production of high-quality Software Test Reports defect summaries and verification status metrics and supports internal customer and regulatory audits and reviews. Finally the rolechampions process and continuous improvementby promoting verification best practices contributing to process improvements tool qualification and standard work for software verification.

Required Qualifications:

• Ability to effectively guide lead technical teams and manage technical staff
• Knowledge and experience testing complex avionics systems
• Bachelors Degree in Engineering Physics Computer Science Aviation or Aerospace from an accredited college or university.
• Minimum 10 years of systems technical and project leadership experience in the aviation industry in any of the following areas: avionics system development product design leading and managing technical teams and executing new technology introduction programs.
• 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.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with Stores Management Systems mission computers or similar avionics/defense platforms.
• Experience integrating test suites into CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Jenkins GitHub Actions GitLab CI).

• Scripting skills (e.g. Python shell) to build automated test frameworks data analysis and tool integrations.

• Exposure to tool qualification activities under DO-178C. Demonstrated commitment to safety quality and rigorous verification in high-assurance systems.

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Therefore employment will be contingent upon the ability to prove that you meet the status of a U.S. Person as one of the following: U.S. lawful permanent resident U.S. Citizen have been granted asylee or refugee status (i.e. a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)).

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