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Senior Embedded Software Manager
- GE Aerospace (Grand Rapids, MI)
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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.
This position offers a blend of onsite and hybrid work arrangements, requiring a presence in the office for 3-4 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.
Job Description
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 team’s 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:
+ Bachelor’s 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 real-time 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 DO-178C avionics software development processes and certification standards.
+ Master's degree in an Engineering related field from an accredited institution.
+ Knowledge of DO-254, DO-297, and ARP4754 certification standards.
+ Experience with Earned Value and Activity Based Management methods.
+ Proven background in real-time embedded software architecture and design within an avionics environment, working in cross-functional teams.
+ Proficiency in Model Based Design (MBD) for software architecture, requirements, and design of real-time systems.
+ Demonstrated capability in leading large-scale 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, real-time operating systems, and multi-core processor architectures.
+ Experience with real-time operating systems.
+ Ability to influence product leadership and technology strategy.
+ Experience leading global and virtual teams.
+ Demonstrated leadership in applying and advancing state-of-the-art 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 $121,500,000.00 - $162,100.00. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate’s experience, education, and skill set. This position is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus based on a percentage of your base salary/ commission based on the plan. This posting is expected to close on 8/01/2025.
GE Aerospace offers comprehensive benefits and programs to support your health and, along with programs like HealthAhead, your physical, emotional, financial and social wellbeing. Healthcare benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to a Health Coach from GE Aerospace; and the Employee Assistance Program, which provides 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Aerospace Retirement Savings Plan, a 401(k) savings plan with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability insurance, life insurance, and paid time-off 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., is a “Sponsor”). Each Sponsor reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a Sponsor’s welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual
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_This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Therefore, for applicants who are not asylees, refugees, lawful permanent residents or U.S. Citizens (i.e., not a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), otherwise known as a U.S. Person), final offers will be contingent on the ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government._
Additional Information
GE Aerospace offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity Employer (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/22-088\_EEOC\_KnowYourRights\_10\_20.pdf) . Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
GE Aerospace will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).
**Relocation Assistance Provided:** Yes
GE Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
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