Staff Embedded Software Engineer – Connected Medical Devices
GE HealthCare Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States
Hospitals and Health Care · 10,001+ employees
About the role
Design and implement connectivity, networking, and cybersecurity software for connected neonatal medical devices. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure reliable data exchange between devices, hospital systems, and cloud platforms.
What they look for
Requirements
Requires a bachelor's degree in a relevant engineering field and at least 6 years of professional software engineering experience. Candidates must possess strong proficiency in C/C++ and experience with Linux-based embedded systems and networking protocols.
Benefits
Full description
Job Description Summary
Help Build the Future of Connected Neonatal Care Our mission is simple: help send mothers and infants home healthy. The Infant Care team builds safe, reliable, connected systems that support clinicians in NICUs and Labor & Delivery worldwide. In this role you’ll build the connectivity, networking, and cybersecurity software that lets medical devices securely exchange patient information with hospital systems, monitoring stations, and cloud platforms — making sure critical patient data is available when it matters most.
Job Description
What You’ll Do
- Design and build connectivity, networking, and communication services for connected neonatal devices
- Implement secure communications using modern networking and cybersecurity practices (TLS, certificates, secure design)
- Develop fleet management, remote monitoring, and cloud-connected device management capabilities
- Build and maintain wireless (Wi-Fi) connectivity features
- Integrate devices with hospital information systems (we’ll support you in learning healthcare interoperability such as HL7/FHIR if it’s new to you)
- Participate in architecture, design, and code reviews; support verification, validation, and regulatory compliance
- Investigate and resolve connectivity, performance, and reliability issues
- Collaborate with systems, cybersecurity, quality, and clinical engineering teams
Who You Are
You’re a strong embedded/systems software engineer who enjoys networking and connectivity challenges. You don’t need healthcare experience — if you’ve built secure, connected software in another high-reliability domain, your skills likely translate directly. Backgrounds that thrive here include connected/IoT devices, telecommunications, industrial automation, networking/distributed systems, and other embedded platforms.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Computer/Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or related field
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong proficiency in C and/or C++
- Experience developing software on Linux or Embedded Linux
- Experience with networking fundamentals — TCP/IP, socket programming, secure communications, distributed systems, or device connectivity
- Experience building high-reliability software with solid testing, debugging, and code-quality practices
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
Preferred Qualifications (Nice to Have — Not Required)
- Healthcare interoperability: HL7 v2.x (construction, parsing, MLLP transport), FHIR, or IHE profiles (PDQ, ACM, DEC)
- Connected medical device development or other regulated environments
- Embedded Linux build systems such as Yocto
- Wi-Fi / wireless communications
- MQTT and event-driven architectures; REST APIs and cloud integration
- Fleet management or IoT device management platforms
- Cybersecurity: TLS, certificate-based auth, threat modeling, secure software design
- CI/CD, automated testing, static analysis (Coverity); Qt/QML familiarity
Technology Stack
C/C++ • Embedded Linux, Yocto • TCP/IP, TLS/SSL • HL7 v2.x, FHIR, MLLP • MQTT, REST • Wi-Fi • Qt/QML • Git, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Coverity, Jama, Gazelle
You are not expected to know all of these. We’ll help you ramp on what you don’t.
Don’t meet every qualification? Great candidates rarely check every box. If your experience aligns with many of the core responsibilities and you’re excited to build technology that improves patient care, we encourage you to apply.
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We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.
GE HealthCare offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE HealthCare 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 HealthCare 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).
While GE HealthCare does not currently require U.S. employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, some GE HealthCare customers have vaccination mandates that may apply to certain GE HealthCare employees.
Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes
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