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Lead Engineer - Additive Component Design
GE AerospaceWest Chester, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 15 Sept 2025
About the role
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!This role is within the GE Aerospace Metallic Additive Design team. The team is responsible for the design, method development, and technical maturation of state-of-the-art additively manufactured components that will be used in GE’s commercial products, including technology development as a part of the CFM RISE program.
As a Lead Engineer, you will play a key role in supporting and leading the design and testing of our next generation additively manufactured hardware, including complex Heat Exchangers. As an individual contributor and hardware owner, you will drive design and manufacturing changes to meet program requirements, collaborating with cross-functional teams including mechanical design and analysis, thermal design, materials engineering, manufacturing, quality, and program management. You will implement lessons learned from other programs and assist in continuing to build out GE Aerospace's expertise in additive processes. Other responsibilities for this role may include supporting component delivery efforts, leading technical maturation testing activities, improving component producibility through design and manufacturing changes, and focusing on implementing FLIGHT DECK principles to improve the design and manufacturing of additive components. In this position, you will have some level of autonomy, working directly with your team lead. You will be required to take ownership of the quality of your work and contribute input into setting your priorities. This role presents an exciting opportunity to make significant impact on the design and innovation of GE Aerospace’s products.
Job Description
As a Design Engineer, you will:
- Execute the mechanical design, analysis, and evaluation of hardware produced using additive manufacturing with sound engineering principles and adhering to business standards, practices, procedures, and product / program requirements.
- Act as interface between mechanical design, manufacturing, materials, and systems engineering teams.
- Develop specialized knowledge of additive design and module integration. Have awareness as to how work of own team contributes to our commercial programs, future programs, and the Additive integrated product team. Foster awareness of market trends, competition, and how products are differentiated. Serve as a resource for executing best practices and delivering work considered high quality.
- Use judgment to make decisions or solve moderately complex tasks or problems in areas component design, manufacturing, and program management. May use multiple internal and limited external sources outside of own team to arrive at decisions.
- Lead small teams through completion of deliverables. Communicate schedule pressures and delegate tasks appropriately to cross functional teams. Collaborate with quality engineering, manufacturing engineering, materials engineering, and the systems engineering teams to address challenges and execute on solutions.
- Engage with supply chain on the industrialization of components produced using additive manufacturing. Be connected to the details of the additive manufacturing process and work closely with the team at our development facilities.
Qualifications/Requirements:
- Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Materials Engineering, or related STEM field from an accredited university and 4+ years prior relevant engineering experience, OR an Advanced degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Materials Engineering, or related STEM field from an accredited university and 2+ years prior relevant engineering experience.
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.
Desired Characteristics:
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills; experienced in influencing and working on small teams with a flexible, friendly attitude
- Technical depth in additive manufacturing; proven experience collaborating with manufacturing counterparts
- Proficiency in CAD software (Unigraphics NX), GD&T, and with stress analysis software (ANSYS, etc.)
- Proven ability to coordinate multiple projects simultaneously
- Excellent communication and technical documentation skills
- Ability to mentor others in resolving complex problems
- Keen listener and innate drive to succeed.
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