Engineer 1 - Embedded SW Quality Test
GE VernovaResponsibilities
- Define V&V strategies, test plans, frameworks, coverage, traceability, and validation criteria for embedded software, power-system, protection, control, and industrial communication products.
- Design and execute system, integration, communication, functional, regression, interoperability, performance, robustness, and negative testing.
- Develop Python-based automated test frameworks, communication simulators, protocol tools, packet-analysis utilities, monitoring tools, and fault-injection capabilities.
- Validate IEC 61850, DNP3, Modbus, IEC 60870-5-104, T103, T101, TCP/IP, Ethernet, and serial communication across IEDs, relays, RTUs, SCADA systems, gateways, PLCs, and control systems.
- Analyze communication traces, network packets, relay event records, system logs, and test results to identify defects and perform root-cause analysis.
- Validate protection and control systems, protection schemes, relays, IEDs, RTUs, SCADA interfaces, digital control systems, gateways, and embedded software or firmware.
- Develop AI and agentic-AI solutions for requirements analysis, test-scenario generation, workflow orchestration, log analysis, anomaly detection, failure classification, root-cause analysis, and automated V&V reporting.
- Establish and maintain CI/CT-based automated V&V pipelines and continuously improve testing methods, automation, AI-assisted capabilities, coverage, and product reliability.
- Collaborate with Power Systems, Protection, Hardware, Firmware, Software, Systems Engineering, and Continuous Engineering teams to resolve defects and improve reliability.
- Use JIRA, Xray, Confluence, Git, and other engineering tools for traceability, test management, defect tracking, documentation, and configuration management.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Science, Communication Engineering, Instrumentation, or Power Systems Engineering.
- Minimum 3+ years of experience in communication testing, system V&V, embedded software or firmware testing, automation, or R&D engineering.
- Strong Python programming skills for automation, scripting, protocol testing, data analysis, and tool integration.
- Strong understanding of industrial communication, power-system automation, protection, control, and embedded systems.
- Hands-on knowledge of IEC 61850, DNP3, Modbus, IEC 60870-5-104, T103, T101, TCP/IP, Ethernet, and serial communication.
- Experience with protocol analysis, packet capture, message decoding, interoperability testing, communication troubleshooting, and network diagnostics.
- Experience with AI/ML, generative AI, LLMs, and agentic AI applied to testing, automation, communication analysis, or engineering workflows.
- Understanding of AI agent architecture, tool or function calling, RAG, APIs, Python-based AI automation, and intelligent workflow orchestration is desirable.
- Knowledge of electrical distribution and transmission systems, protection and control systems, IEC and ANSI standards, and power-system equipment is required or advantageous as specified.
- Understanding of CT/VT calculations and protection relay settings is advantageous.
- Experience with ABB, Siemens, SEL, and other major relay manufacturers is advantageous.
- Ability to bridge communication engineering, power systems, protection and control, software automation, and agentic AI while working independently and collaboratively.
Benefits
- Relocation assistance is provided.
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.