2 days ago
Base Salary
$130k - $173k/yr
Responsibilities
- Engage customers and stakeholders to plan software functionality based on needs and constraints.
- Design, develop, optimize, and maintain embedded software modules, features, products, platforms, and firmware.
- Define system, hardware, software, and human-integration requirements and produce technical documentation.
- Plan and execute engineering testing, validation, verification, debugging, and integration from desktop simulations through representative flight tests.
- Implement networking protocols and algorithms for resource-constrained environments and collaborate with hardware teams on module and application communications.
- Ensure software robustness, resilience, fail-safe operation, and mitigation of safety and security vulnerabilities.
- Participate in prioritization, requirements and design reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and software development lifecycle activities.
- Support project scope, cost, and schedule goals; generate estimates for bids and programs; and demonstrate capabilities to customers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related STEM field, or a master’s degree with the required experience pathway.
- At least 10 years of embedded product software engineering experience, or at least 7 years with a master’s degree.
- Proficiency in Ada, C, C++, or equivalent programming languages.
- Experience developing networking protocols and implementing detailed embedded software or firmware designs.
- Experience with embedded software testing, debugging, hardware integration, real-time operating systems, device drivers, parallel or distributed processing, and multi-threaded or multi-core systems is preferred.
- Experience with IPv4, IPv6, ARP, ICMP, IGMP, DHCP, TCP, UDP, NTP, IPsec, and IKE is preferred.
- Experience with Python, Perl, Tcl, Git, CVS, SVN, Perforce, Cameo, debuggers, test equipment, UARTs, and JTAGs is preferred.
- Experience in mission-critical industries, bare-metal software optimization, model-based engineering, compilers, build tools, source-code control, IDEs, version-control tools, defect-tracking tools, and scripting tools is preferred.
- Current or maintainable U.S. Government security clearance is preferred or required for the role, and U.S. citizenship is required as a prerequisite for clearance.
- Strong written and verbal communication, critical thinking, troubleshooting, and technical problem-solving skills.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary, annual discretionary bonus eligibility, and comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, prescription drug, retirement savings with matching and company contributions, paid time off, parental leave, disability insurance, life insurance, tuition assistance, adoption assistance, and employee assistance services.
- Fully onsite in Grand Rapids, Michigan, requiring attendance five days per week.
- Corporate relocation assistance is available for eligible candidates.
- The posting is expected to close on September 30, 2026.
About GE
GE is a public industrial company that designs and sells aircraft engines, power generation equipment, and related software and services to airlines, utilities, and governments. Following its restructuring, it operates through GE Aerospace and GE Vernova. Founded in 1892 and headquartered in Boston, it trades on the NYSE as GE and serves global aviation and energy markets.