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As a Lead Engineer – Embedded Software Development you will play a vital role in designing, developing, and testing Embedded Software (Firmware), platforms and systems for our mission-critical technologies and products. 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 background in embedded systems, a keen eye for detail, and a deep understanding of real-time systems and their constraints. You will also need to demonstrate your ability to take full ownership of your role and deliver high-quality software solutions. The role has moderate autonomy, requiring high levels of operational judgment.

Responsibilities:

• Designs and/or programs/develops a small module or a large component, feature, set of features, whole feature area or entire embedded software product.

• Define and formalize system, hardware, software, and human integration requirements.

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

• Follow established software development methodologies and principles and document your tasks and designs.

• 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.

• Ensure software robustness, resilience, and fail-safe operation for critical devices, and mitigate potential safety and security vulnerabilities.

• Create detailed design and technical documentation, optimize existing applications, and implement new features.

• Participate in task prioritization, execution, requirements, specifications, code and design reviews, and mentorship across the software development life cycle.

• Apply best practices for software engineering and understand the key business drivers and product roadmap.

• 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:

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

• BS + 5 years of related software engineering experience or MS + 2 years of experience in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or related fields

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

• U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain or currently holds a security clearance.

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

Desired Qualifications:

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

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

• Experience with RTOS (Linux, FreeRTOS, QNX, VxWorks, etc.) and device drivers for complex systems using parallel processing, multi-threading, distributed processing, multi-core, SoM, and/or secure processing.

• Experience with embedded software testing, debugging, and integration on hardware using debuggers (gdb, lldb, etc.), test equipment (scopes, analyzers, multi-meters, etc.), and UARTs, JTAGs and oscilloscopes.

• Experience working in mission-critical industries (aerospace, automotive, defense, first responder, medical devices, etc.) and turning CONOPS, Specifications or Requirements into software design, code, test plans and execution.

• Innovative, critical thinking and troubleshooting skills and proficiency with IDEs, version control tools, defect tracking tools and scripting tools.

• Experience with bare metal software design and optimization for cycles and memory and fundamental facility with compilers, build and source code control tools.

• Experience with model based engineering on Cameo.

• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.

• Knowledgeable of system interfaces (e.g. Ethernet, Mil-Std-1553, Serial).

• Knowledgeable of component interfaces (e.g. I2C, SPI, PCIe).

Eligibility Requirement (s):

• 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. GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this.

• US Citizen: 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 employment.

• Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).

At GE Aerospace, we have a relentless dedication to the future of safe and more sustainable flight and believe in our talented people to make it happen. Here, you will have the opportunity to work on really cool things with really smart and collaborative people. Together, we will mobilize a new era of growth in aerospace and defense. Where others stop, we accelerate.

To protect the interests of all parties, GE Aerospace will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate. Any unsolicited resumes sent to GE Aerospace, including unsolicited resumes sent to a GE Aerospace mailing address, fax machine or email address, directly to GE Aerospace coworkers, or to GE Aerospace’s database will be considered GE Aerospace property.

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.

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