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.

Location: Grand Rapids, MI

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 Sub Section Manager – Embedded Software 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. Your expertise will be particularly valuable in the Verification & Validation (V&V) domains of our embedded software products, guiding the team through new product development and engaging with suppliers.

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.

• Verification & Validation (V&V) strategy, environment, deployment, and execution on the programs. Emphasis on a common approach leveraging reuse across products.

• Continuous Integration and Build Environment

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:

• This position requires U.S. citizenship status

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 & valid