[Hiring] Principal Software Engineer @GE Aerospace

Role Description

The Commercial Engine Services (CES) Business Intelligence (BI) team is building the next generation of analytics and AI-powered applications for supply chain and operations. We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to design and build full-stack applications to turn operational data into AI-driven decision tools that predict, recommend, and act to drive business outcomes.

This is a hands-on, senior individual-contributor role:

• Shape our AI application strategy
• Build front-end and back-end services
• Embed AI features into production products
• Create new products to solve our hardest problems
• Partner with BI developers and platform architect
• Lead junior software engineers to deliver high-quality solutions

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field from an accredited university or college
• Minimum of 8 years of hands-on experience building and shipping full-stack applications to production

Requirements

• Design, build, and maintain full-stack applications and services across the full software lifecycle: requirements, implementation, testing, documentation, and production support
• Build responsive front ends and back-end services deployed to the cloud
• Optimize application performance and monitor applications for errors, latency, and usage; own alerting, incident response, and root-cause analysis
• Embed AI into applications with natural-language queries, predictive insights, recommendations, and conversational interfaces
• Ground AI features in knowledge graphs and ontologies that model the domain and enable semantic search and reasoning over operational data
• Build and expose reusable AI capabilities via MCP servers that applications and agents can call
• Integrate machine-learning models and LLM APIs into production applications to enhance insights and decision-making
• Build agentic workflows that trigger actions and update records, with human approval and audit logging
• Partner with junior engineers to move models from experiment to reliable, production-grade features
• Set and enforce application coding standards, design patterns, and engineering best practices across the team
• Serve as senior reviewer for application code correctness, performance, security, and maintainability
• Establish CI/CD, automated testing, and version-control workflows for application development
• Build reusable components, templates, and utilities that accelerate development across the team
• Mentor and coach junior software engineers and BI developers
• Translate ambiguous business problems into project plans and application work
• Partner with BI leadership on the application roadmap and with stakeholders on requirements and priorities
• Lead application projects of moderate to high complexity, guiding others and influencing technical direction

Benefits

• Healthcare benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
• Access to a Health Coach from GE Aerospace
• Employee Assistance Program providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling, and referral services
• Retirement benefits include the GE Aerospace Retirement Savings Plan and a 401(k) savings plan with company matching contributions
• Access to Fidelity resources and planning consultants
• Tuition assistance
• Adoption assistance
• Paid parental leave
• Disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time-off for vacation or illness