Principal Hardware Engineer

About

GE HealthCare is a global leader in medical technology and digital solutions, enabling clinicians to make faster, more informed decisions through intelligent equipment, data analytics, applications, and services. With over 100 years of experience in healthcare and approximately 47,000 employees worldwide, the company is at the center of an ecosystem working towards precision medicine. Present in France since 1987 with 2,800 employees today, it is a firmly established player in France through its industrial footprint, its R&D and production center in Buc (Yvelines), and research partnerships with French companies and research centers. www.gehealthcare.com

Your Role

As a Principal Hardware Engineer, you are the transversal technical reference for all hardware topics, including mechanical and electromechanical design, electrical integration, and system interfaces.

You work in close collaboration with the Chief Engineer and the System Product Engineer to secure platform performance, safety, reliability, and industrialization.

Your impact is strategic, influencing both short-term engineering decisions and the long-term technology roadmap.

Main Mission

Technical Authority & Hardware Strategy

• Accountable for hardware expertise management in alignment with Chief Engineer directions and in collaboration with the System Product Engineer. Act as technical expert to the team.
• Define and drive the hardware roadmap in coherence with the system roadmap, business, and industrial challenges.
• Build and deploy Make or Buy strategies for the scope by developing long-term partnerships for the HW scope.

Architecture & System Integration

• Lead the hardware architecture and integration of mechanical, robotic, and electrical subsystems.
• Translate system requirements into hardware components: architecture, mechanical and electrical interfaces, performance, safety, ergonomics, reliability, and maintainability constraints.
• Ensure the coherence of mechanical, electrical, and system interfaces (space, routing, thermal dissipation, compatibility).

Design & Technology Choices

• Lead choices for materials, surface treatments, and industrial processes (machining, injection molding, sheet metal, composites, additive manufacturing).
• Influence choices related to electrical integration: wiring, connectors, power management, thermal and EMC requirements in coordination with dedicated teams.
• Ensure the best performance/cost/industrialization equation for all hardware.

Technical Excellence, Safety & Reliability

• Arbitrate complex technical decisions and lead major design reviews.
• Be responsible for product safety, including risks related to suspended masses, moving parts, and electromechanical interfaces.
• Define hardware validation, verification, and reliability strategies (mechanical and electromechanical).
• Monitor field reliability performance and contribute to the reduction of Cost of Poor Quality.

Leadership & Transversal Influence

• Be a reference technical leader, capable of influencing without direct hierarchical link.
• Mentor and guide architects, mechanical designers, and senior hardware engineers.
• Disseminate best practices, methods, and tools (calculations, tests, change management).
• Drive technological innovation and continuous improvement initiatives at a global scale.

Profile

Technical Expertise

• Confirmed expertise in hardware systems engineering: mechanical, electromechanical, mechatronics.
• Solid mastery of mechanical calculations (static, dynamic, fatigue, thermal, tolerancing, metrology).
• Understanding of constraints related to electrical integration (interfaces, power, thermal, reliability).
• Excellent mastery of CAD/CAE tools (especially Creo).
• Proven ability to lead complex developments with external partners, structured in work packages, in an international environment.
• Knowledge of medical regulations (imaging) is a plus.

Principal Engineer Posture

• Strong technical credibility and natural leadership.
• Ability to arbitrate, decide, and commit to long-term structuring choices.
• Clear communication, effective synthesis, and strong sense of responsibility.
• Pragmatic, results-oriented, with recognized technical rigor.

Experience & Education

• Significant experience in hardware engineering (mechanical, mechatronics, electromechanical), including technical leadership and architecture arbitration.
• Engineering degree or Master's degree (mechanical, mechatronics, electromechanical, or equivalent).
• Fluent French and English.

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.

Our total rewards are designed to unlock your ambition by giving you the motivation and flexibility you need to transform your ideas into world-changing realities. Our salaries and benefits reflect everything you'd expect from an international organization, with career development opportunities, in a culture that fosters collaboration and support.