Principal Engineer – Hardware

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Mechanical, Electrical & Mechatronic Engineering

Are you a recognized hardware expert capable of approaching a product as a complete system—mechanical, electrical, and mechatronic—and shaping architecture and technology decisions with long-term impact?

We are looking for a Principal Hardware Engineer to join our Mammography Hardware Engineering team, driving the technical vision, ensuring excellence in product architecture, and supporting high-level engineering teams.

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

• 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.
• Lead the design and system integration of mechanical & Robotic components and solutions to guarantee performance and operability by leveraging existing skills and driving design owners.
• Develop and Execute Strategy for Developments leveraging 3rd parties when needed
• Drive hardware requirement management, validation/verification, design transfer. Be accountable for product safety including suspended mass risks.
• Design HW Roadmap for our platform ensuring the best cost to feature balance through accurate technical decision

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to the system roadmap and own the hardware roadmap, aligning discussions with other Product Engineers and driving hardware team members (architect and senior designer).
• Propose Make or Buy strategies, leveraging external partners and framing accurate work packages by building partnerships.
• Provide senior leadership: lead and arbitrate design reviews (System Requirements Review, Preliminary Design Review, Critical Design Review), mentor engineers, disseminate best practices and innovation initiatives.
• Own design authority for overall product hardware definition: select materials and surface treatments, ensure compliance with Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing, and apply proper mechanical design choices (machining, injection molding, sheet metal, composite, additive manufacturing) to meet quality, cost, and delivery targets.
• Drive design and integration: flow down system requirements to mechanical components; define architecture, interfaces, and constraints (performance, ergonomics, safety).
• Promote and develop accurate tools and processes (calculation, testing, design change process) across the global hardware team.
• Manage and report product hardware reliability, contribute to Cost of Quality Performance reduction, and define verification and reliability plans.

Required Skills

Technical

• Strong expertise in mechanical or/and Mechatronics design with extensive knowledge of complex system design.
• Expertise in mechanical calculations: static and dynamic analyses, fatigue, thermal; tolerance analysis; metrology. Knowledge of CAE tools is mandatory (Creo).
• Ability to lead complex Mechatronic developments in a multicultural environment involving external partners.
• Knowledge of medical regulations for imaging system is a plus.

Behavioral

• Senior technical leadership, cross-functional influence, ability to decide and persuade.
• Clear communication and synthesis for decision support (program teams, management).
• Result-oriented mindset, hands-on pragmatism, documentation rigor, and ownership.
• A demonstrated experience in managing subcontractors through clearly defined work packages would be appreciated

Experience & Education

• Important experience in mechanical or mechatronics engineering, including project leadership, technical arbitration, and supplier management.
• Degree: Engineering or Master’s degree in Mechanical or Mechatronic Engineering or equivalent
• Languages: Fluent in French and English.

Inclusion et diversité

GE HealthCare est un employeur offrant l'égalité des chances où l'inclusion compte. Les décisions relatives à l'emploi sont prises sans tenir compte de l’origine nationale ou ethnique, de la religion, du sexe, de l'orientation sexuelle, de l'identité ou de l'expression de genre, de l'âge, du handicap, du statut d'ancien combattant protégé ou d'autres caractéristiques protégées par la loi.

Nos rémunérations totales sont conçues pour libérer votre ambition en vous donnant la motivation et la flexibilité dont vous avez besoin pour transformer vos idées en réalités qui changent le monde. Nos salaires et nos avantages sociaux correspondent à tout ce que vous attendez d’une organisation ayant une dimension internationale, avec des possibilités de développement de carrière, dans une culture qui favorise la collaboration et le soutien.

About us

GE HealthCare est l'un des leaders mondiaux dans le domaine des technologies médicales et des solutions numériques. Il permet aux cliniciens de prendre des décisions plus rapides et plus pertinentes à travers des équipements intelligents, des analyses de données, des applications et des services. Avec plus de 100 ans d'expérience dans le secteur de la santé et environ 47 000 employés dans le monde, la société est au centre d'un écosystème qui travaille pour une médecine de précision. Présent en France depuis 1987 avec aujourd’hui 2 800 collaborateurs, c’est un acteur solidement ancré dans l’hexagone à travers son empreinte industrielle, son centre de R&D et de production à Buc dans les Yvelines et des partenariats de recherche avec des entreprises et des centres de recherche français. www.gehealthcare.com

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