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About this Cyber UX Controls Engineer role at GE Vernova

GE Vernova · Onsite · Schenectady

Job Description Summary

GE Vernova is accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy, while helping our customers power economies and delivering the electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life.

Are you excited at the opportunity to electrify and decarbonize the world? Looking to make a global impact and solve problems? Through relentless innovation and continuous collaboration with our customers, GE Gas Power, part of GE Vernova, is providing more advanced, cleaner, and efficient power that people depend on today and building the energy technologies of the future.

This role offers a unique opportunity to work on next-generation control systems for power generation facilities. As the energy sector evolves, there is a growing need to modernize how operators interact with and manage power plants while ensuring these systems remain secure and resilient. Emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, present new opportunities to transform operational efficiency and effectiveness.

You will contribute to projects focused on advancing control system technologies, improving user experiences, and strengthening system security. This role provides exposure to multiple aspects of control system development, from platform development, user interface design to cyber security implementation. Responsible for supporting departmental operations through effective planning and execution of key initiatives. This role operates with a degree of autonomy while focusing on the implementation of activities within established functional practices, processes, and procedures. Exercises sound judgment in day-to-day decision-making, seeking guidance as needed for more complex situations.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

  • Evaluate and develop technologies for modern control room environments
  • Support the design and development of the controls and HMI platform for reliable power plant operations
  • Support the design and prototyping of control system interfaces using simulation tools
  • Assist in implementing security controls and best practices for operational technology systems
  • Gather and analyze feedback from stakeholders to inform controls and platform design as well as security improvements
  • Contribute to documentation, templates, and standards that support customer operations
  • Explore opportunities to integrate advanced technologies into control systems
  • Evaluate computing technologies to support control system feature enhancements built on generative AI

Required Qualifications

  • Master’s degree in in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with minimum 1 year of relevant experience post-graduation; or Bachelor’s degree with minimum 2 year of relevant experience post-graduation.

Desired Characteristics

  • Experience in Human Machine Interface Design with Computer Programming knowledge, computer platform and network devices, or cyber security.
  • Interest in control systems, user interface design, computer platforms including operating system and hypervisors, network architecture and devices, or cyber security including compliance and security control implementations.
  • Awareness of large language and small language artificial intelligence models and prompt engineering
  • Familiarity with zero-trust cyber security principles
  • Basic knowledge of industrial protocols (e.g., Modbus, OPC UA) or SCADA systems
  • Familiarity with network devices and configurations such as switches and firewalls.
  • Familiarity with design tools or security control principles
  • Awareness of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence 

GE 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: Yes

 

 

For candidates applying to a U.S. based position, the pay range for this position is between $80,000.00 and $120,000.00. 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 October 06, 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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How this Controls Engineer salary compares

This role pays $100,000/yr — in line with the typical range for Controls Engineer roles.

$90,000 median $119,000 $137,140

Typical range $97,500–$131,200/yr, from 8 comparable Controls Engineer listings on JobsRadar (pay annualized to USD). See Controls Engineer salary insights →

About GE Vernova

Addressing the climate crisis is an urgent global priority and we take our responsibility seriously. That is our singular mission at GE Vernova: continuing to electrify the world while simultaneously working to help decarbonize it. If we want our energy future to be different…we must be different. Our mission is embedded in our name. We retain our treasured legacy, “GE,” in our name as an enduring and hard-earned badge of quality and ingenuity. “Ver” / “verde” signal Earth’s verdant and lush ecosystems. “Nova,” from the Latin “novus,” nods to a new, innovative era of lower carbon energy that GE Vernova will help deliver. Together, we have The Energy to Change the World. www.gevernova.com

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