Job Description Summary
Are you an Embedded Software Engineering Manager who loves leading teams and working on high-assurance embedded systems? If so, GE Aerospace Defense and Systems wants you to join their Advanced Program Execution team in Grand Rapids, MI. You will be part of a cross-functional team that develops innovative solutions for capabilities on custom hardware. You’ll spend about half your time hands-on in the design and development of these capabilities, and the other half providing guidance, mentoring, oversight, and tactical/strategic direction to our software team working on projects related to stores management, cybersecurity, networking, and sensing and signal processing.
Onsite Grand Rapids, MI, opportunity - Comprehensive corporate relocation assistance.
This role requires the successful candidate to maintain a US Government Security Clearance; prerequisite for a security clearance is U.S. Citizenship.
Active U.S. Security Clearance Required.
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, generous time off, tuition reimbursement, and various health insurance options.
If you are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply today!
Job Description
As a Sub Section Manager – Embedded Software, you will play a pivotal role in leading a team of engineers in designing, developing, and testing embedded software, platforms, and systems for our mission-critical technologies and products. This is a player-coach role, with your time split roughly equally between people leadership and hands-on technical work. You will foster collaboration across engineering and business product areas to promote a unified software strategy. This role requires a strong background in embedded systems, real-time software development, and leadership experience.
Responsibilities:
Provide technical and people leadership to the embedded software team, ensuring responsiveness, reliability, and functionality.
Oversee talent management, including recruitment, staffing assessments, and project assignments.
Define and manage scope, cost, and schedule for team tasks, ensuring alignment with project goals.
Establish and monitor metrics to measure team progress and product completeness, taking corrective action as needed.
Utilize daily management techniques to focus on continuous improvement and align daily actions with strategic goals.
Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies, tools, and processes to enhance project outcomes.
Drive productivity improvements by identifying and implementing best practices.
Mentor technical teams throughout the software development life cycle, including requirements, design, implementation, verification & validation, and certification.
Engage with customers, product leaders, and industry stakeholders to align software development with market needs, internal R&D investment, and product/technology roadmaps.
Contribute hands-on design and code, from individual modules to full product features.
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.
Create detailed design and technical documentation, optimize existing applications, and implement new features.
Ensure software robustness, resilience, and fail-safe operation for critical devices, mitigating potential safety and security vulnerabilities.
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related STEM field from an accredited institution.
Minimum of 10 years of experience in 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.
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