Senior Engineering Manager - Systems Engineering (Remote Eligible, U.S.)

The Senior Systems Engineering Manager for Solar and Storage Equipment is a leadership role responsible for guiding a high-performing engineering team throughout the full lifecycle of solar and energy storage products, ensuring technical robustness, manufacturability, and market alignment.

Location: Remote (US)

Salary: $152,400–$254,000/yr

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of systems engineers supporting solar and storage equipment across the full product lifecycle.
• Build a high-performing, inclusive team culture emphasizing accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and talent development.
• Set clear priorities, goals, and performance expectations for the team and ensure alignment with business and product objectives.
• Develop team capability in systems engineering disciplines, including requirements management, architecture, integration, validation, and lifecycle problem-solving.
• Manage performance, employee development, succession planning, and organizational capability growth.
• Lead systems engineering for solar and storage equipment, including definition of system requirements, functional decomposition, interface management, system architecture, integration planning, and verification/validation strategy.
• Ensure alignment across hardware, electrical, mechanical, controls, software, and service requirements to achieve product performance, reliability, safety, and compliance objectives.
• Drive systems-level tradeoff decisions that balance technical performance, cost, manufacturability, serviceability, schedule, and customer needs.
• Establish and enforce strong systems engineering rigor across product development and lifecycle support activities.
• Support resolution of complex technical issues through structured problem-solving and cross-functional coordination.
• Lead systems engineering support for NPI programs from concept through launch.
• Ensure product requirements are clear, complete, and traceable, and that system architecture supports scalable, reliable product execution.
• Partner with product management, engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and program leadership to ensure launch readiness.
• Drive systems-level risk identification, design reviews, and validation planning throughout the development lifecycle.
• Ensure new products are designed for manufacturability, serviceability, controls/software integration, and long-term supportability.
• Lead systems engineering support for sustaining activities across in-market solar and storage equipment.
• Provide leadership in resolving field, product, and integration issues affecting performance, reliability, manufacturability, and customer satisfaction.
• Support product updates, component changes, obsolescence management, cost reduction, and lifecycle extension efforts.
• Ensure disciplined systems impact assessment for design changes, software updates, and product enhancements.
• Partner with quality, operations, supply chain, and service teams to drive corrective and preventive actions.
• Provide systems engineering leadership in support of service and field teams for troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and issue resolution.
• Ensure field learnings are incorporated into requirements, architecture improvements, product updates, and future designs.
• Support development of service guidance, technical documentation, and engineering response plans for deployed equipment.
• Help improve maintainability, diagnostic capability, and field support effectiveness through stronger systems design and lifecycle feedback loops.
• Ensure effective integration of controls and software into solar and storage equipment throughout the product lifecycle.
• Partner with controls and software teams to align on requirements, interfaces, validation, release management, and sustainment.
• Support systems-level management of software revisions, controls updates, interoperability, diagnostics, communications, and cybersecurity-related requirements.
• Drive resolution of hardware-software integration issues and ensure controls/software changes are assessed for broader system impact.
• Promote strong coordination across systems, software, controls, hardware, test, and service teams.
• Collaborate closely with product management, program management, design engineering, manufacturing, sourcing, quality, service, and commercial teams.
• Serve as a key technical leader and decision-maker in a matrixed organization.
• Establish effective operating rhythms, governance mechanisms, and technical review processes to improve execution and alignment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical field.
• Minimum 15 years of experience in systems engineering, product development, or technical leadership within complex engineered products.
• Demonstrated people leadership experience, including coaching, performance management, and team development.
• Proven experience leading technical teams in alignment with the GE Vernova Way, with a focus on accountability, collaboration, inclusion, continuous improvement, and talent development.
• Strong experience with complex electromechanical, electrical, power conversion, solar, storage, or related energy systems.
• Demonstrated experience supporting new product introduction, sustaining engineering, and field/service issue resolution.
• Experience leading cross-functional efforts in a matrixed organization.
• Strong communication, technical problem-solving, and stakeholder influence skills.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
• Access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, a 24/7 nurse-based resource.
• Access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services.
• Retirement benefits including 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.

Additional Information

• This is a remote position.
• The pay range for this position is between $152,400.00 and $254,000.00.
• Bonus eligibility: discretionary annual bonus.
• The posting is expected to remain open for at least seven days after May 28, 2026.
• Employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
• GE Vernova is an Equal Opportunity Employer and will only employ those legally authorized to work in the United States.