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In this role, the Technology Leader – AeroThermal Mechanical Systems will: 

• Manage a team of experienced technical leaders, fostering a culture of safety, compliance, and technical excellence.
• Support team members’ career growth through effective coaching, mentoring, and development initiatives.
• Drive talent pipeline development to cultivate the next generation of senior technical leaders.
• Oversee technical capability assessments and collaborate with Technology Managers to plan future technical capability needs.
• Own and advance critical technology roadmaps, addressing capability gaps to meet long-term strategic objectives.
• Promote cross-disciplinary collaboration to enhance continuous learning, innovative thinking, and customer value delivery.
• Champion systems thinking to achieve competitive advantage through differentiated technological capabilities.
• Advocate for balanced approaches that combine rigorous execution with informed risk-taking to accelerate innovation.
• Apply lean principles to drive continuous improvement in Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and team capabilities.
• Embody and promote GE Aerospace’s Purpose and Behaviors: Respect for People, Continuous Improvement, and Customer Focus.
• Manage team budgets to meet or exceed organizational targets and contribute to planning cycles.
• Collaborate with Research senior leadership to drive organizational initiatives that align with operational and cultural goals.

• Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field, with 20+ years of relevant experience, including 10+ years leading engineering teams or large-scale projects.
• Strong influencing skills, including engagement with senior leadership.
• Recognized technical authority in their discipline.
• Broad technical acumen with the ability to understand diverse aerospace technology domains.
• Exceptional communicator across all organizational levels.
• Ability to challenge the status quo and drive customer-focused innovation.
• Collaborative leader who naturally works across organizational verticals with ability to leverage inter-organizational networks to drive outcomes
• Decisive problem-solver capable of navigating ambiguity, competing priorities, and limited information.
• Positive change agent who values inclusivity and diverse perspectives.
• Promotes a culture of informed risk-taking, learning, and adaptability.
• Proficient in influence, facilitation, and negotiation, with a solution-focused mindset.
• Skilled in managing risk and uncertainty within dynamic, priority-driven environments.
• Experienced in securing funding for innovative ideas.
• Ability to thrive within matrixed team environments.
• Must be willing to work on-site at the Niskayuna, New York facility.
• Due to the nature of the duties of this position, this role requires the individual to have a current or active Secret Clearance with an ability to attain a Top Secret Clearance; prerequisite for a security clearance is U.S. citizenship.

• Doctorate in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field, with 15+ years of relevant research and development experience, including 10+ years leading research teams.
• Established technical expert with breadth and depth across multiple aerospace relevant capabilities, including, but not limited to aerodynamics, combustion, structures, turbomachinery, and thermodynamics.
• Strong record of publication and speaking engagements that demonstrates recognition as a thought leader in propulsion, power, and/or turbomachinery.
• Extensive track record of transitioning immature technologies into aerospace product environments.
• Demonstrated success influencing and collaborating with US government agencies, including Department of Defense, Department of Energy, NASA, and national laboratories.
• Strong knowledge of GE Aerospace, including familiarity with its organizations and stakeholders.
• Experience working on U.S. Government classified programs.

The base pay range for this position is $150,000 - $275,000 USD Annually. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate’s experience, education, and skill set. This position is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus based on a percentage of your base salary based on the plan. This posting is expected to close on July 25th, 2025.

Healthcare benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to a Health Coach, a 24/7 nurse-based resource; and access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and planning consultants.

Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability insurance, life insurance, and paid time-off for vacation or illness. General Electric Company, Ropcor, Inc., their successors, and in some cases their affiliates, each sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs (i.e., is a “Sponsor”). Each Sponsor reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace, or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a Sponsor’s welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Therefore, for applicants who are not asylees, refugees, lawful permanent residents or U.S. Citizens (i.e., not a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), otherwise known as a U.S. Person), final offers will be contingent on the ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.

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