Lead Systems Dynamics Engineer

Job Description Summary

Are you ready to see your career take flight? At GE Aerospace, we believe the world works better when it flies. We are a world-leading provider of jet engines, components, and integrated systems for commercial and military aircraft. We have a relentless dedication to the future of safe and more sustainable flight and believe in our talented people to make it happen.

The Lead Systems Dynamics Engineer will play a key technical role in the design, analysis, and validation of advanced aerospace systems and components for GE Aerospace programs. In this role, you will develop and apply dynamic models, simulations, and control-focused analyses spanning mechanical, electrical, and thermal domains to support system architecture decisions, requirements definition, and verification activities. You will collaborate closely with cross‑functional teams including systems engineering, controls, mechanical design, test engineering, and program management to help ensure system performance, stability, and robustness across the full operating envelope.

In this role, you will support product dynamics qualification and analysis activities across the product life cycle, including research, development, verification, qualification, production, and field investigations.

Key responsibilities include developing and maintaining high‑fidelity system‑level dynamic models (using tools such as MATLAB/Simulink or similar), product/component level dynamic models (using tools such as ANSYS – Workbench and/or Classic), performing transient and steady‑state analyses, conducting sensitivity and trade studies, and contributing to requirements allocation and validation for critical dynamic behaviors (e.g., vibration, loads, control interactions, transient response, critical speed and forced response analysis of highspeed rotor designs).

This role requires analytical modeling, interpreting the modeling results, performing lab tests and data analysis. You will interpret test data, correlate models to hardware results, and support the development of mitigation strategies for dynamic issues discovered during design, integration, and test.

You will collaborate with more experienced engineers to solve complex engineering problems and contribute to the continuous improvement of modeling methods, processes, and standard work. You will prepare and present clear technical reviews, reports, and design recommendations to internal stakeholders and customers, ensuring that safety, quality, and reliability are integral to all system dynamics decisions. This position requires strong analytical skills, a systems mindset, and the ability to work in a fast‑paced, team‑oriented environment supporting current products and future aerospace technologies.

At GE Aerospace in Dayton, OH the EPISCenter is the headquarters for all of Aviation Power Engineering. At this facility you have an opportunity to put your engineering training and skills to use. Our Engineers are focused and challenged on developing new technologies and delivering state‑of‑the‑art products such as Hybrid Electric aircraft, the latest military platforms, and SiC technology to name a few.

Plus, if you like hands‑on work, there is also a 155,000 sq ft lab that includes 6 high power test cells totaling 15 MW, an EMI chamber, an electronics lab, a rapid build prototype lab, and a real‑time simulator lab with all the latest equipment.

• Assist in defining the parameters of dynamics test programs, including fixture design and instrumentation selection
• Perform dynamics analysis including vibration monitoring, rotor dynamics, and a variety of other analyses and tests exploring transient physical phenomena
• Conduct development and qualification test data acquisition, analysis, and reporting to DO‑160 and MIL‑STD‑810 standards; support electrodynamic shaker testing, analysis, and model correlation
• Maintain and aid in expanding tools and equipment (instrumentation, internally developed tools, etc.) needed for dynamics support across programs
• Provide technical support and day‑to‑day guidance to personnel supporting the assigned project, with…