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Engineering Technical Lead – Embedded Software

GE Vernova
Wilmington, United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 21 Apr 2026
💰 $213,200/yr($111,200/yr$213,200/yr)

About the role

Job Description Summary

Lead and mentor team responsible for developing and maintaining embedded software controls and instrumentations systems to enable nuclear power plants to operate safely, efficiently, and sustainably. Focus on work planning, technical approach, design assurance, and execution excellence.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities

  • Lead preparation of high thru low work planning, scheduling, and resource loading across lifecycle phases of Engineer-Procure-Construct or new product introduction using the applicable practices, guides, and tools.
  • Support project engineering or manager with understanding execution metric and status, issues, risks, mitigation or recovering plans, and be extremely proactive to identify changes in scope.
  • Drive compliance utilizing scope, detailed work planning, budget, overall schedule, applicable design processes, and discipline specific practices and tools including design and technical reviews.
  • Lead “day-to-day” operations and follow-up to ensure deliverables are produced and commitments met on-spec., on-budget, and on-schedule.
  • Coordinate proactively and inclusively for overall team across other engineering disciplines to support integrated plant design objectives.
  • Collaborate with project management, project engineering, support functions, and others to drive project completion.

Job Description

  • Identify, confirm, document, and lead resolution of technical, risk, other emergent issues.
  • Provide technical oversight and mentorship to ensure system designs and deliverables comply with requirements throughout design release to manufacturing or supplier including production, validation, installation, and commission tests.
  • Support strategy, plan, statement of work preparation, and implementation of resource loading.
  • Assist with hosting learning sessions, knowledge capture, and transfer initiatives.
  • Use variety of tools for requirements, design, change, configuration, and document management.
  • Champion nuclear safety culture; Ensure compliance with GVH policies, quality management system, and corrective action program.
  • Deliver work with integrity, safety, security, quality, and on-time output.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent 4-year technical degree from an accredited college or university
  • Minimum of 10 years of experience in embedded software development, including a deep working knowledge of C Programming language and software development tools (GitLab version control, IDE’s, Debuggers, etc.).
  • Minimum of 10 years of experience with C Coding conventions, unit testing, and integration testing of software.
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience performing independent, or preferably team based, system design or technical reviews including interfacing with requirements management, independent verification and validation.

Eligibility Requirements

  • The preferred work location for this role is at the GVH Headquarters in Wilmington, NC; but highly qualified (US based) remote candidates will be considered within 200 miles of Wilmington, NC.
  • Does require the ability to come onsite as needed for testing operations (about once a month). 
  • This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. If applicable, final offers will be contingent on ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.

Desired Characteristics

  • Experience in nuclear analog and digital instrumentation, control, monitoring, electric power system and field engineering.
  • Competency in industry standards IEEE, IEC, and quality standards.
  • Competency in modeling and test data collection tools.
  • Clear thinker, detail oriented, insightful, quantitative, balanced, and a results-oriented analyst and leader.
  • Solves technical challenges through application of common design patterns and identifying appropriate patterns for use in problem solving.
  • Proven track record of delivering commitments on specification, on budget, and on schedule.
  • Strong verbal communication, as well as, facilitation and presentation skills for technical and business audiences – Able to communicate openly, calmly, and crisply in stressful situations.
  • Adaptive; able to quickly learn diverse and varying organizational interfaces with professional astuteness.
  • Continuous improvement mindset with an ability to identify, influence, and implement better ways to do an activity or process.
  • Solid technical writing skills with focus on requirements and design documents.
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