Systems Integration Engineer in Eastleigh

At GE Aerospace, we are reinventing the future of flight. We are looking for a Systems Integration Engineer to join our XMAN team, which develops an extended arrivals management platform to improve air traffic management worldwide. Building on GE Aerospace’s expertise in navigation and guidance systems, the team delivers secure, reliable, and high‑quality solutions. This is a hands‑on role spanning systems integration, verification, software development, deployment, and operational support. Working as part of a global, cross‑functional team, you will support integration, customer acceptance, deployment, and operational readiness in a regulated environment. Occasional travel to customer and GE Aerospace sites will be required.

Key Responsibilities

• Integrate extended arrivals management with customer systems, managing interfaces, configurations, and dependencies to ensure reliable operation.
• Support customer integration activities and formal acceptance testing for cloud-based deployments, including issue triage, resolution, and closure.
• Plan, develop, automate, and execute verification and validation activities.
• Monitor and improve product security, reliability, and operability through log and metric analysis, incident investigation, and problem management.
• Produce and maintain quality and compliance evidence for regulated environments, including requirements traceability, review records, test results, release notes, and safety case inputs.

Additional Responsibilities

• Contribute to architecture and design discussions, including performance, scalability, resiliency, supportability, and cybersecurity considerations.
• Design, implement, test, and maintain software and integration tooling in an Agile environment using modern engineering practices.

Required Experience

• Experience integrating complex systems with customer environments from initial engagement through formal acceptance testing.
• Experience producing quality, traceability, and compliance evidence for regulated environments, ideally aligned with standards such as DO-278A/ED-109A.
• Experience with automated verification and validation approaches.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with customers and cross-functional teams.
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college, or equivalent knowledge and practical experience in systems engineering, aerospace engineering, software engineering, or a related discipline.

Desirable Experience

• Experience with software and delivery practices: Agile software development environments CI/CD pipelines, automated builds, and test execution frameworks.
• Cloud deployments and operational support in production environments.
• C# and .NET Core/.NET for backend services, APIs, distributed systems, and integration layers.
• Triaging failures, identifying root causes across software and integration boundaries, and implementing corrective and preventive actions.
• Experience with platforms and infrastructure: Cloud services, Azure preferred Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• Deploying and operating workloads on Kubernetes Linux system administration.
• Experience with domain and automation tooling: Developing and/or verifying software for high‑availability, safety-critical, or mission-critical air traffic control systems.
• Automation, scripting, integration tooling, data processing, or support utilities.

Desirable Behaviours

• Owns work items and drives them through to completion with limited oversight.
• Identifies risks early and proposes practical mitigation plans.
• Demonstrates curiosity, learning agility, and continuous improvement.
• Maintains strong attention to detail and a consistent commitment to quality.
• Understands the operational and customer impact of technical decisions.
• Uses data and evidence to prioritise improvements and solve problems collaboratively.

Security Clearance

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) clearance is required and must be maintained for this role. Please note that in the event that BPSS clearance cannot be obtained, you may not be eligible for the role and/or any offer of employment may be withdrawn on grounds of national security.

Right to Work

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. However, under the applicable UK immigration rules as may be in place from time to time, it may be that candidates who do not currently have the right to work in the UK may not be appointed to a post if a suitably qualified, experienced and skilled candidate who does not require sponsorship is available to take up the post.