The Senior Principal Engineer operates with strong ownership—anticipating risks, enabling informed decisions, and ensuring technical rigor—while working collaboratively across engineering, commercial, finance, and governance organizations. Success in this role requires deep technical credibility, systems thinking, and the ability to influence without authority.
This role contributes to the overall strategy and manages complex issues within Customer Service Engineering’s Multi-Year Agreement (MYA) Systems and Reliability functions.Job Description
Technical Leadership & Risk Ownership
- Ensure technical rigor in reliability and risk processes to deliver safe, high‑quality products.
- Provide technical leadership in design reviews, design boards, and mission‑based task forces.
- Serve as a recognized expert in reliability engineering and technical risk management.
- Partner closely with Chief Consulting Engineers and the Chief Engineer’s Office to align technical decisions with business strategy.
MYA Systems, Governance & Compliance
- Own and steward the NLRE and Triggers processes, ensuring clarity, consistency, and compliance while enabling continuous improvement.
- Interpret and enforce governance and substantiation requirements; arbitrate technical and compliance disputes as needed.
- Support internal and external audits by clearly explaining both process requirements and technical intent.
Enterprise Risk Awareness & Decision Support
- Serve as an early‑warning signal for high‑impact risks, trade‑offs, and MYA decision points.
- Anticipate downstream technical, financial, and operational impacts of engineering decisions.
Program & Initiative Effectiveness
- Apply deep engineering design knowledge to identify hidden risk, scope, or reliability implications in initiatives.
- Enable program success by asking the right technical questions and maintaining a systems‑level perspective.
Collaboration, Coaching & Continuous Improvement
- Foster open, transparent communication across engineering, finance, controllership, and commercial teams.
- Mentor technical leaders and engineers, reinforcing disciplined execution and engineering judgment.
- Promote a culture of learning, curiosity, and continuous improvement.
- Recommend areas for technology advancement and reliability capability growth.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Statistics.
- At least 8 years of engineering experience, with demonstrated technical depth in Services engineering, engineering design, and reliability-related disciplines.
- Experience in Reliability, Design, and/or Services Engineering.
- Recognized expertise in Reliability Engineering and Technical Risk Management.
- Strong executive‑level communication and influencing skills.
- Proven ability to lead through ambiguity and adverse conditions.
- Effective collaborator across all organizational levels.
This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. If applicable, final offers will be contingent on ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.
Additional InformationGE Vernova offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Vernova 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 Vernova 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: No
For candidates applying to a U.S. based position, the pay range for this position is between $152,400.00 and $254,000.00. The Company pays a geographic differential of 110%, 120% or 130% of salary in certain areas. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate’s experience, education, and skill set.
Bonus eligibility: discretionary annual bonus.
This posting is expected to remain open for at least seven days after it was posted on February 02, 2026.
Available benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, 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 Vernova 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 financial planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability benefits, life insurance, 12 paid holidays, and permissive time off.
GE Vernova Inc. or its affiliates (collectively or individually, “GE Vernova”) sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs GE Vernova 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 GE Vernova welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.
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