Engineer - Propulsion and Power Systems

Job Description Summary

Job Description

GE Aerospace Research is seeking an exceptional early career researcher to join our Propulsion and Power Systems (PPS) Laboratory as a Research Engineer.

At GE Aerospace Research, we invent the future of flight, lift people up and bring them home safely. The PPS Laboratory provides systems-level technology assessment, integration, and development for propulsion and power applications across GE Aerospace's Commercial and Defense & Systems customers, evaluating and advancing integrated system concepts for next-generation and future products.

The defining characteristic of the PPS Laboratory is its systems-level perspective: rather than optimizing individual components in isolation, the team characterizes how technologies interact within and across propulsion and power architectures. The team owns the integration and partners for depth, bringing together system-level thinkers with diverse technical backgrounds who work across disciplinary boundaries.

As part of the early career development program, you will begin building deep technical expertise in propulsion and power systems while developing the organizational intelligence and leadership skills that define Research's technical leaders. Your first three years at Research include structured development to accelerate your growth: establishing your technical foundation in your home lab, strategic stretch assignments that provide breadth across our capabilities, and connection to a cohort of early career peers. Through independent research, structured projects, coursework, and mentorship, you will progress from foundational researcher to recognized technical contributor ready for long-term impact in aerospace innovation.

Essential Responsibilities

In this role, you will be responsible for one or more of the following:

- Work safely and build sound research practices -- Comply with laboratory, environmental health and safety (EHS), and security requirements across every analysis, build, and test activity, and raise safety concerns promptly.
- Apply engineering fundamentals to defined analysis and test tasks -- Contribute to systems-level technology assessments for gas turbine propulsion, high-speed flight, or electrified propulsion applications, working with senior researchers who provide direction on approach and scope.
- Work with established models and simulation tools -- Add new features, run sensitivity studies, and correlate predictions against test data using tools such as MATLAB, Python, NPSS, or equivalent.
- Support sub-system and system-level test campaigns -- Contribute to pre-test analysis and predictions, instrumentation and test setup, data reduction, and test execution.
- Contribute to test safety assessments -- Support the hazard identification, safety assessment, and commissioning activities that precede sub-system and integrated system testing, learning how safety requirements shape test design and execution.
- Learn how the system fits together -- Build an understanding of how components and sub-systems couple within propulsion and power architectures, and how your own contribution fits the products it serves.
- Collaborate and grow -- Work with researchers across disciplines such as aerodynamics, combustion, structures, and electrical systems; build a network you can draw on for guidance; and seek and apply feedback from mentors and senior team members.
- Own your tasks and share your results -- Plan and prioritize with guidance, deliver quality work on schedule, raise risks early, provide status updates to project leads, and contribute to invention disclosures and publication of research results.

Qualifications/Requirements

- Master's Degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related STEM discipline. Coursework, thesis, or project experience should be relevant to propulsion and power systems, thermal-fluid systems, systems engineering, or experimental methods.
- Fundamental knowledge of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer.
- Ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary team and communicate technical information clearly.
- Must be willing to work from the GE Aerospace Research office in Niskayuna, NY.
- This role may require an individual to obtain active US Government Secret Clearance with ability to attain a Top-Secret Clearance; prerequisite for a security clearance is U.S. citizenship.
- This role may require use of Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) or security clearance to access classified information. Therefore, employment is contingent upon your ability to prove that you meet the qualification of being a US Citizen.
- You must submit your application for employment on the careers page at careers.geaerospace.com to be considered.

Eligibility Requirements

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation and drug screen. Due to the nature of our projects, US Citizenship is required.

You will stand out if you have one or more of these attributes

- Systems-oriented thinking : interest in how technologies interact at the system level, rather than in a single component or discipline considered in isolation.
- Prior intern, co-op, or research experience with a research orientation, such as thesis-based work, publications, conference presentations, patents, or open-source technical contributions.
- A humble, focused, and transparent approach: seeks to learn and welcomes feedback, uses data and hypotheses to make decisions, and communicates clearly across teams to reach evidence-based conclusions.

Compensation

The pay range for this position is $90,000-$100,000 USD annually. The specific annual rate offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including the candidate's experience, their education, and the work location. The position includes eligibility in the GE Aerospace AIR Bonus Program. You will be eligible for an annual bonus that is a percentage of base salary. Under current plan provisions, the bonus target for this role is 5%, and the actual bonus could increase or decrease depending on a variety of factors, including individual performance and company financial performance.

Benefit Info

GE Aerospace offers comprehensive benefits and programs to support your health and, along with programs like HealthAhead, your physical, emotional, financial and social wellbeing. Healthcare benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to a Health Coach from GE Aerospace; and the Employee Assistance Program, which provides 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Aerospace Retirement Savings Plan, a 401(k) savings plan 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.

GE Aerospace (General Electric Company or the Company) and its 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, 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). Employees may also be subject to random and reasonable-suspicion drug and alcohol testing.

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes