Staff Software Engineer (Mechanical)
GE VernovaResponsibilities
- Identify business needs with engineering teams and program managers and define problem statements, functional specifications, success metrics, productivity gains, and business impact.
- Translate user requirements into tool development plans, technical tasks, validation steps, and deployment milestones with traceability through delivery.
- Upgrade and enhance design and engineering analysis applications for rotating components, improving usability, automation, reliability, execution time, accuracy, and workflow integration.
- Manage project scope, schedules, risks, communications, leadership reviews, and team coordination.
- Lead application development, testing, validation, release, deployment, support, documentation, and user training.
- Coordinate requirements, interfaces, and deployment plans across engineering, manufacturing, sourcing, services, global engineering, ITO/OTR, and systems engineering teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or mechanical engineering is required; a master's degree or higher is preferred.
- Significant experience developing, enhancing, and supporting physics-based design and engineering analysis tools for industrial or rotating component applications is required.
- Mechanical experience, aero engineering concepts, rotating component design workflows, CAD modeling, and engineering automation experience are required or expected.
- Strong programming skills in C++, C, Java, Python, Shell scripting, and Fortran are required.
- Working knowledge of Unix/Solaris environments, software build processes, scripting, debugging, version control, and deployment practices is required.
- Advanced understanding of data structures, algorithms, computational methods, numerical accuracy, performance optimization, and scalable software design is required.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, documentation, and collaboration skills are expected.
- Successful candidates may need to complete background checks and suitability assessments, such as UK Security Clearance (SC), due to work involving critical infrastructure customers.
Benefits
- Relocation assistance is provided.
- The role is based at the UK Centre of Excellence and may require background checks and suitability assessments for customer work.
About GE Vernova
GE Vernova is a purpose-built energy technology company on a mission to electrify to thrive and decarbonize the world. It is made up of three businesses -- Power, Electrification, and Wind -- with focus on accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy, while helping our customers power economies and deliver the electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. The world needs more energy, smarter energy. With energy demand expected to grow by more than 50% in the next 20 years, we are continuously innovating to meet the moment…like we have for the past 130 years. The Energy of Change and relentless optimism are what drive us – it’s about never giving up and seeing what’s possible so that we deliver the energy technologies the world needs right now and for generations to come. GE Vernova’s attitude and edge is embedded in its name. We retain our treasured legacy, “GE,” as an enduring and hard-earned badge of quality and ingenuity. “Ver” / “verde” signal Earth’s verdant and lush ecosystems. “Nova,” from the Latin “novus,” nods to a new, innovative era of lower carbon energy that GE Vernova will help deliver. Together, we have the energy to change the world.