Staff Engineer - Transient Performance Engineering

Job Description Summary

Invent the future of flight by helping solve unique challenges of new propulsion system architectures. Experience the design process from preliminary design to fielded engine. Gain insight into trends and strategies at GE Aerospace and in the broader aviation industry.

This is an analytical role in which the engineer will build and utilize gas turbine engine aero-thermal models to conduct analysis of engine transient operation.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Work with aerodynamicists, heat transfer experts, engine controls engineers, and other engine designers to develop system level aero-thermal models of gas turbine engines.

• Participate in engine test planning/execution and analyze data collected from these engine tests to validate and improve the engine performance models.

• Conduct analysis to ensure the engine design can meet all customer requirements for thrust, fuel consumption, transient response, and engine operability across the flight envelope while observing all engine operating limits.
• Capture system level requirements in collaboration with Sr. Architects, Data Scientists, Businesses & Product Managers
• Performing deep analysis of end-to-end platform stack and recommend performance improvements and capacity expectations.
• Identify the scope of the work, provide initial estimate and justify the estimate with facts
• Demonstrate the understanding of Agile software development lifecycle and able to distinguish the core inputs and outputs in each cycle.
• Engage in technical discussions; participate in technical designs and present technical ideas through white boarding
• Work closely with your peers and keep engaging in a fast pace technical design and development team
• Execute in a fast-paced delivery mode and focus in delivering tasks to meet the product release goal
• Maintain code quality through best practices, unit testing and code quality automation
• Seek and provide feedback on design and development
• Demonstrate the ability to make informed technology choices after due diligence and impact assessment
• Understand whole product, its modules and the interrelationship between them while being an expert in the assigned component or module
• Help in designing interfaces and information exchange between modules with performance sustainability in focus.
• Possess advanced domain knowledge and show great customer focus. Expert in processes / methodologies and Skilled in build, release & deployment processes
• Articulate the need for scalability and understand the importance of improving quality through testing.
• Be an expert in writing code that meets standards and delivers the desired functionality using the technology selected for the project
• Drive design reviews, define interfaces between code modules, and applies existing technology to designs
• Be an expert in assessing application performance and optimizing/improving it through design and coding best practices
• Be an expert in core data structures as well as algorithms and have the ability to implement them using language of choice
• Provide technical leadership and defining, developing, and evolving software in a fast paced and agile development environment using the latest software development technologies and infrastructure
• Provide guidance to a team of developers with planning, execution and/or design architecture using agile methodologies such as SCRUM

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in aerospace, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering from accredited university.
• At least 6 years' experience in an engineering position.
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.

Desired Characteristics

Technical Expertise:

• Strong interest in compressible flow modeling and thermodynamics.

• Strong ability to understand complex platform stack components
• Proven ability to engage and perform deep performance analysis and troubleshooting

• School or industry experience with computer coding (examples: C++, Python, Matlab, or NPSS).
• Strong knowledge of Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, Software Design Patterns and Java coding principles
• Hands-on experience in web services & SQL Database
• Experience with Big Data / Hadoop and NoSQL Database is preferred
• Hands-on experience with web development
• Experience in implementing Java OSGi modules and using an OSGi container is preferred
• Experience with Play framework, Angular is preferred
• Knowledge of performance measurements tools
• Strong knowledge of platform performance metrics and measurement standards

• Graduate degree in Aerospace or Mechanical engineering.

Business Acumen:

• Strong problem-solving abilities and capable of articulating specific technical topics or assignments
• Experience in building scalable and highly available distributed systems
• Expert in breaking down problems and estimate time for development tasks
• Evangelizes how our technology solves customer problems from a technology and business perspective

Leadership:

• Ability to takes ownership of small and medium sized tasks and deliver while mentoring and helping team members

• Strong communication skills.

• Strong project management skills.

• Ensures understanding of issues and presents clear rationale.
• Able to speak to mutual needs and win-win solutions.

• Willingness to learn and work in a collaborative team environment.
• Uses two-way communication to influence outcomes and ongoing results
• Identifies misalignments with goals, objectives, and work direction against the organizational strategy.
• Makes suggestions to course correct
• Continuously measures deliverables of self and team against scheduled commitments.
• Effectively balances different, competing objectives
• Demonstrates clarity of thinking to work with limited information and vague problem definitions
• Influences through others; builds direct and "behind the scenes" support for ideas
• Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team
• Shares knowledge, power, and credit, establishing trust, credibility, and goodwill

Personal Attributes:

• Able to work under minimal supervision
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity
• Able to work well with global teams, including time-zone flexibility
• Skilled in providing oversight and mentoring team members. Shows ability to effectively delegate work.

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Therefore, employment will be contingent upon the ability to prove that you meet the status of a U.S. Person as one of the following: U.S. lawful permanent resident, U.S. Citizen, have been granted asylee or refugee status (i.e., a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)).

Additional Information

GE Aerospace offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity Employer . Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

GE Aerospace will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes