Senior Embedded Software Engineer - DoD Secret Clearance

Overview

Job Description Summary Are you a Senior Embedded Software Engineer who loves working on high-assurance embedded systems? If so, GE Aerospace Defense and Systems wants you to join their Emerging Technologies team in Grand Rapids, MI. You will be part of a cross-functional team that develops innovative solutions for capabilities on custom hardware. You will work on projects related to stores management, cybersecurity, networking, and sensing and signal processing.

This role is onsite in Grand Rapids, MI. An extensive corporate relocation package is available for eligible candidates. 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, flexible work arrangements, generous time off, tuition reimbursement, and various health insurance options. If you are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply today!

• Engage with customers and communicate with stakeholders to plan software functionality based on customer needs and constraints.
• Design and/or program/develop modules or a large component, feature, set of features, whole feature area or entire embedded software product.
• Define and formalize system, hardware, software, and human integration requirements.
• Define and execute engineering test, validation, and verification activities.
• Follow established software development methodologies and principles and document your tasks and designs.
• Validate and verify software designs in a diversity of system integration environments - from local desktop computer simulations to fully representative flight tests.
• Implement protocols and algorithms for resource-constrained environments and collaborate with the hardware team to enable communication between modules and applications.
• Ensure software robustness, resilience, and fail-safe operation for critical devices, and mitigate potential safety and security vulnerabilities.
• Create detailed design and technical documentation, optimize existing applications, and implement new features.
• Participate in task prioritization, execution, requirements, specifications, code and design reviews, and mentorship across the software development life cycle.
• Apply best practices for software engineering and understand the key business drivers and product roadmap.
• Deliver your work to support project scope, cost, and schedule targets, and interface effectively with all levels of the organization and customers.
• Propose novel solutions to technical challenges, generate cost and time estimates for future bids and programs, and utilize hardware/software to demonstrate capability against customer expectations.

• Active DoD Secret clearance preferred; candidates with a clearance active within the last 12 months will be considered. Ship required.
• Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering or related STEM field.
• 8+ years of embedded software engineering experience or Master’s degree +5 years' experience.
• Proficiency in Ada, C, C++, or equivalent languages.
• Onsite Grand Rapids, MI opportunity - Corporate relocation assistance provided.

• Master's degree in engineering or computer science with extensive experience in Ada, C/C++ for embedded software design, development, and testing.
• Knowledge of scripting languages (Python, Perl, Tcl, etc.) and code management tools (Git, CVS, SVN, Perforce, etc.).
• Experience with RTOS (Linux, FreeRTOS, QNX, VxWorks, etc.) and device drivers for complex systems using parallel processing, multi-threading, distributed processing, multi-core, SoM, signal processing, BSP, device driver development, and API design.
• Experience in integrating custom logic blocks into FPGA designs, including interfacing with various peripherals and communication protocols.
• Knowledge of digital design principles and techniques for implementing custom logic functions.
• Ability to work closely with hardware engineers to define and implement custom logic requirements.
• Experience with embedded software testing, debugging, and integration on hardware using debuggers (gdb, lldb, etc.), test equipment (scopes, analyzers, multi-meters, etc.), UARTs, JTAGs and oscilloscopes.
• Experience working in mission-critical industries (aerospace, automotive, defense, first responder, medical devices, etc.).
• Innovative, critical thinking and troubleshooting skills and proficiency with IDEs, version control tools, defect tracking tools and scripting tools.
• Experience with bare metal software design and optimization for cycles and memory and fundamental facility with compilers, build and source code control tools.
• Experience with model-based engineering using Cameo.
• Understanding of system interfaces (e.g. Ethernet, Mil-Std-1553, Serial).
• Understanding of component interfaces (e.g. I2C, SPI, PCIe).
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.

The base pay range for this position is $-$. This position is also eligible for an…