GE Aerospace - Grand Rapids, MI
posted 2 months ago
Full-time - Senior
Hybrid - Grand Rapids, MI
Transportation Equipment Manufacturing
About the position
The Senior Systems Engineer at GE Aerospace will lead cross-functional engineering efforts to design and optimize advanced military avionics and computing platforms. This role involves gathering and translating customer requirements into system specifications, managing product integration, and ensuring validation and verification of systems. The engineer will also mentor junior engineers and support bids and proposals for advanced technology programs, contributing to the development of innovative solutions in the aerospace sector.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop and integrate multiple components and products optimizing performance, cost, quality and inter-operability.
- Gather customer requirements and translate them to systems requirements, specifications, and flow down to hardware and software teams.
- Drive validation and verification activities for the overall product/system, including system-level testing.
- Manage the interface between components and other systems.
- Apply critical thinking toward the proactive identification and abatement of technical risk to minimize project impact.
- Manage the overall product configuration and configuration control system.
- Develop expertise and knowledge within multiple technical domains to drive an analytical approach towards development of a holistic mission-focused architectural solution.
- Understand and develop best practices that accelerate LEAN operations and differentiators in the market.
- Propose different solutions outside of set parameters to address complex manufacturing processes with technical variety and/or interdependent production cycles.
- Use multiple internal and limited external sources outside of own teams to make decisions.
- Act as a resource for less experienced colleagues; may lead small projects with low risks and resource requirements.
- Develop skills to bring team members to consensus around topics within the field.
- Report to senior leadership on technical status of ongoing projects.
- Respond to requests for information (RFI) and requests for proposal (RFP) providing estimates of resource costs and proposed technical approach.
- Support the development of product and technical roadmaps.
- Work closely with the Program Manager (PM) and Engineering Project Manager (EPM) to collaborate with the customer throughout the project.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or a similar field from an accredited university or college.
- A minimum of 8 years of experience developing system architectures derived from customer requirements.
- Ability and willingness to obtain and maintain DoD Security Clearance.
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S.
Nice-to-haves
- Proficiency with Cameo systems modeling tool.
- Strong interpersonal and leadership capabilities.
- Exceptional oral and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems.
- Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs.
- Experience with engineering processes including requirements definition, validation, verification, integration, embedded software, electronic systems, FAA/EASA/NAA certification, and system safety.
- Application knowledge in open architecture design, machine learning or cybersecurity.
- Experience within the hardware domain and embedded software design.
- Awareness of aerospace standards and regulations such as DO-297, ARP 4754A, DO-178, DO-254 and/or DO-330.
Benefits
- Relocation Assistance Provided
- Professional development opportunities
- Competitive compensation
- Challenging careers
- Great work environment
