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Senior Software Applications Engineer – Cyber Security

Are you a Cyber Security Software Engineer who loves working on high-assurance embedded systems? If so, GE Aerospace Defense and Systems wants you to join their Emerging Technologies team in Grand Rapids, MI. You will be part of a cross-functional team that develops innovative solutions for capabilities on custom hardware. You will work on projects related to stores management, networking, and sensing and signal processing.

To apply for this position, you need to be a U.S. citizen and currently hold a U.S. Security Clearance. You also need to move to Grand Rapids, MI, but don’t worry, GE will provide comprehensive corporate relocation assistance.
GE Aerospace is a leader in inventing the future of flight. GE offers competitive salaries and a full range of benefits, including 401K contributions and matching, flexible work arrangements, generous time off, tuition reimbursement, and various health insurance options.

If you are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply today!

Job Description

Role Description:

As a Senior Software Applications Engineer – Cyber Security you will play a vital role working with our customers designing, developing, and testing Embedded Software (Firmware), platforms and systems to protect our aerospace systems from cyber threats. You will work with a team of passionate and skilled engineers who share your vision of creating innovative and reliable embedded systems. To succeed in this position you will need a deep understanding of cyber security principles, software engineering, and the ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to ensure the highest standards of safety, quality, delivery, and cost (SQDC). You will also need to demonstrate your ability to take full ownership of your role and deliver high-quality software solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and implement secure software applications for aerospace systems.

• Conduct thorough security assessments and vulnerability analyses to identify and mitigate potential threats.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate security measures into software development processes.

• Develop and maintain security protocols, policies, and procedures to ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers on cyber security best practices.

• Stay up-to-date with the latest cyber security trends, technologies, and threats to proactively address emerging risks.

• Design and/or program/develop a small module or a large component, feature, set of features, whole feature area or entire embedded software product.

• Defines and formalizes system, hardware, software, and human integration requirements.

• Define and execute engineering test, validation, and verification activities.

• Validate and verify software designs in a diversity of system integration environments – from local desktop computer simulations to fully representative flight tests.

• Implement protocols and algorithms for resource-constrained environments and collaborate with the hardware team to enable communication between modules and applications.

• Deliver your work to support project scope, cost, and schedule targets, and interface effectively with all levels of the organization and customers.

• Propose novel solutions to technical challenges, generate cost and time estimates for future bids and programs, and utilize hardware/software to demonstrate capability against customer expectations.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security, Software Engineering, or a related field.

• 8+ years of embedded software engineering experience or MS +5 years experience.

• 3+ years embedded software cybersecurity experience.

• Proficiency in C, C++, or equivalent languages.

• US Citizen & DoD Secret Clearance : 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 to employment.

• Grand Rapids, MI onsite opportunity - Corporate relocation assistance provided.

Desired Qualifications:

• Master's degree in engineering or computer science with extensive experience in C/C++ for embedded software design, development, and testing.

• Knowledge of scripting languages (Python, Perl, Tcl, etc.) and code management tools (Git, CVS