Systems Principal Engineer

Job Description SummaryAs a part of this team, you will be responsible for driving initiatives to improve the effectiveness of the Engineering function and interfaces with other functions to provide effective coordination of metrics, dashboards, functional processes, and cross-functional initiative coordination. Impacts approaches, projects and programs in the functional area or affected business organization and ways of working. Impacts quality, efficiency and effectiveness of own team. Has significant input into priorities. Guided by professional practices and policies that are shaped by the role.
The role has moderate autonomy, requiring high levels of operational judgment. Impacts the team's ability to achieve service, quality, and timeliness of objectives. The role is subject to operating policy objectives. There is moderate autonomy within the role. High levels of operational judgment are required to achieve outcomes required.
GE HealthCare is a leading global medical technology and digital solutions innovator. Our mission is to improve lives in the moments that matter. Unlock your ambition, turn ideas into world-changing realities, and join an organization where every voice makes a difference, and every difference builds a healthier world.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Interact with all business and customer partners to understand their problems and needs.
• Define the needs in a stakeholder needs document which is reviewed and approved by cross functional team members. 
• Translate customer needs, business constraints, and regulatory requirements into product functional and performance system requirements. 
• Conduct risk management activities including planning, risk analysis, risk evaluation and control. 
• Lead the engineering team through the development of system architecture options. Objectively and holistically communicate trade-offs during the architecture selection process. 
• Participate in system and subsystem architecture and design process. 
• Analyse and propose solutions for product and customer issues. 
• Decompose and allocate system level requirements into module level requirements. 
• Plan and look after reliability and robustness activities. 
• Lead the technical team through technical risk identification and management as well as issue and test defect resolution. 
• Ensure changes are analyzed holistically and impacts are fully understood. 

Educational Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree (Mechanical, Electrical, Software Engineering or comparable technical subject area).

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of engineering experience including fundamental understanding of Hardware and Software engineering. 
• Knowledge in ISO 14971 Application of Risk Management to Medical Devices is preferred.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to lead and work collaboratively with others multi-functionally. 
• Ability to work in the absence of complete information and make timely decisions.
• Strategic problem solver and can execute with excellent attention to detail.
• Organize & Ability to progress on many different tasks in parallel.
• Ability to plan, estimate and accurately track deliverables.
• Ability to write clear, concise, and verifiable requirements.

Desired Characteristics 

• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs.
• Established project management skills. 
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems.
• Demonstrated ability to lead programs / projects.

Inclusion and Diversity

GE Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer where inclusion matters. 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.

We expect all employees to live and breathe our behaviors: to act with humility and build trust; lead with transparency; deliver with focus, and drive ownership – always with unyielding integrity.

Our total rewards are designed to unlock your ambition by giving you the boost and flexibility you need to turn your ideas into world-changing realities. Our salary and benefits are everything you’d expect from an organization with global strength and scale, and you’ll be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters care, collaboration and support.

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