GE to hire 400 engineers near Silicon Valley

SAN FRANCISCO—General Electric Co. last week announced it will base its new global software center in San Ramon, Calif. When fully operational the facility will employ about 400 software professionals, according to GE.

According to GE, the facility will speed the pace of innovation, collaboration and commercialization of new technologies.

Design work on the new center is under way, with construction of the space beginning later this year, GE said. Employees will begin moving into the new center in the middle of next year, according to the company.

"At the San Ramon center, our architects and engineers will collaborate with our global experts from multiple industries to combine our decades of experience with infrastructure equipment and marry them with software solutions," said Bill Ruh, a GE vice president who has been tabbed to lead the firm's centralized software initiative.

In addition to the new facility in San Ramon—located in the San Francisco Bay Area just outside the Silicon Valley—GE has opened two large software operations over the past two years, one near Detroit and another near Richmond, Va., the company said.

GE to hire 400 engineers near Silicon Valley