Senior Systems Engineer – Verification Lead

Job Description Summary

Working at GE Aerospace means you are bringing your unique perspective, innovative spirit, drive, and curiosity to a collaborative and diverse team working to advance aerospace for future generations. If you have ideas, we will listen. Join us and see your ideas take flight!

Engineering is at the center of what we do, and we are looking for talented, innovative engineers who can help us design and develop products for today, tomorrow, and in the future. If you are a dreamer, doer, and inventor who wants your voice to be heard and see your ideas take flight, this is the opportunity for you.

The Senior Systems Engineer – Lead Systems Verifications role is responsible for leading a team of engineers through all aspects of the Verification and Validation portion of the systems engineering lifecycle (right side of the Systems Engineering “V”). As a Systems Verification Lead Engineer, you will be responsible for developing and implementing verification strategies and plans, leading a team to create and execute test procedures, and providing technical support for Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) systems.

You will coordinate with sub‑system verification teams to ensure seamless integration of verification artifacts at the systems level and collaborate with customers during process and development assurance audits. Additionally, you will advise on test equipment integration, address technical challenges, and track Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to monitor progress and ensure quality across all verification activities.

Systems engineering is a cross‑functional engineering discipline centered on the process of designing, integrating, verifying, and managing complex systems over their life cycles. At its core, systems engineering focuses on working with customers to elicit and document system requirement, certification approach, interface with third‑party systems using the IMA resources, decompose and validate requirements for the building blocks that make up the system, drives early and frequent integration of blocks together, and ensures adequate verification of the various levels to complete the certification process for the system.

In this position you will have opportunities to collaborate on architecture, requirements, interfaces, and integrations while focusing primarily on: testing, and verification of complex hardware/software for aviation‑based systems while mentoring others. This role collaborates with key subject matter experts and engineering project managers, on project planning, execution, bid estimations, and project performance. This position can influence and lead departmental operations, team member development (mentoring), and hiring.

The role is expected to identify verification and validation technical and schedule risks within a project. A self‑starter will excel here. Sound judgment and leadership skills are required to drive success.

Location:

Candidate is to be local to the greater Grand Rapids, MI area.

Relocation Package (assistance) is available.

Work Schedule:

Hybrid 3 days/week on-site in Grand Rapids, (Tuesdays, Wednesdays, & Thursdays). Optional to work remotely:
Mondays and Fridays, as work supports.

If Clearwater is the home base for the position, anticipate 25% travel.

This position will be responsible for leading, guiding and contributing to all technical aspects of the related project(s) across GE’s Common Core Systems (CCS) based on Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) technologies for Systems Engineering’s Verification and Validation. This role provides technical leadership and assistance to project teams to insure they consistently deliver on cost, quality, schedule, and technical milestones.

This position has the following essential responsibilities:

• Develop overall verification strategies and plans to ensure system compliance and performance.
• Lead a team to develop, review, and execute verification test procedures.
• Provide technical support to the team on a wide range of issues related to Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA).
• Coordinate with sub‑system verification teams to ensure effective use of verification artifacts at the systems…