Role Description:
As a Senior Software Applications Engineer - Embedded Software Development you will play a vital role working with our customers designing, developing, and testing Embedded Software (Firmware), platforms and systems for our mission-critical technologies and products. You will work with a team of passionate and skilled engineers who share your vision of creating innovative and reliable embedded systems. To succeed in this position, you will need a background in embedded systems, a keen eye for detail, and a deep understanding of real-time systems and their constraints. You will also need to demonstrate your ability to take full ownership of your role and deliver high-quality software solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Design and/or program/develop a small module or a large component, feature, set of features, whole feature area or entire embedded software product.
- Defines and formalizes 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.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering or related STEM field.
- 8+ years of embedded software engineering experience or MS +5 years experience.
- Proficiency in C, C++, or equivalent languages
- US Citizen & DoD Secret Clearance : This role requires use of technical data subject to U.S. Government contract restrictions and this posting is only for U.S. Citizens. GE will require proof of status prior to to employment.
- Ability to obtain or currently holds a security clearance.
