Job Description Summary

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 Staff Systems Engineer (formerly titled Senior Systems Engineer) is responsible for leading a team through all parts of the systems engineering lifecycle while aligning to overall business objectives, project deliverables, and customer expectations. In this role, you will leverage Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) experience to assist GE’s Common Core Systems (CCS) team develop and manage technical objectives for multiple aircraft platforms.

Systems engineering is a cross-functional engineering discipline centered on the process of designing, integrating, verifying, and managing complex systems over their life cycles. At its core, systems engineering focuses on understanding a system's needs and requirements and ensuring (testing) that the development and integration of its components (verification) meet these needs throughout the system's entire life cycle. This involves a holistic view that considers every aspect of the system, including hardware, software, users, processes, and the operational environment.

In this position you will develop system architectures, requirements, interfaces, integration, testing, and verification of complex hardware/software for aviation-based systems while mentoring others. This role also impacts departmental operations and is responsible for planning, execution, bid estimations, and project performance. The role has autonomy where a self-starter will excel. Sound judgment and leadership skills are required. This opportunity will primarily be focused on technical execution of the team as well as individually assigned activities within the design procedures, practices and plans established by the programs.

Location Preference: Ideally, candidate is local to the greater Grand Rapids, MI area, or secondly Clearwater, FL.

Where would I work? Hybrid 3 days/week on-site (Tuesday, Wednesday, & Thursday). Optional remote Monday and Friday.

Corporate Relocation provided.

The position also includes participation in GE Aerospace’s bonus program.

Not able to sponsor visas.

Job Description

This position will be responsible for leading, guiding and contributing to the systems engineering efforts across GE’s Common Core Systems based on IMA technologies.  This role has accountability for assigned systems engineering duties for the IMA product line.  This role provides technical leadership and assistance to project teams to insure they deliver on cost, quality, schedule, and technical milestones. 

This position has the following essential responsibilities:

• Manage the Systems Engineering Lifecycle for IMA products/technologies.

• Develop and execute systems development and verification plans in accordance with GE Aviation processes.

• Assist Engineering, Sales, Marketing, and Business Leaders in new pursuits.

• Develop architecture and trade studies as needed to comply with customer requirements.

• Crosstrain and mentor other Systems Engineers in the systems engineering discipline.

• Drive and support engineering reuse within the IMA product line.

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to the teams running projects within the product line.  This includes supporting project planning, conducting reviews, metrics development/tracking, forecasting, development processes, and risk and opportunity management.  

• Ensure timely delivery of systems requirements, integrated validation/verification activities, and issue resolution.

• Support the initiation of new projects to insure they are well planned in accordance with the product roadmap, the overall product line strategy and engineering process requirements.

• Lead/manage interdisciplinary collaboration with software, hardware, test, safety, maintainability, reliability and certification teams. 

• Escalate issues that need additional engineering or business leadership assistance in a timely manner.

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