Mechanical Principal Engineer

Job Description Summary

As a Mechanical Principal Engineer, you will provide technical leadership for the design, development, validation, and commercialization of advanced medical devices and healthcare technologies. Drive innovation, resolve complex engineering challenges, and influence product strategy while ensuring compliance with quality and regulatory requirements. This role requires a strategic understanding of the patient/customer needs, product technology and intellectual property of GE Healthcare as well as our competitors.

GE HealthCare is a leading global medical technology and digital solutions innovator. Our purpose is to create a world where healthcare has no limits. 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

Roles and Responsibilities:

- Provide technical leadership for the design, development, and validation of complex imaging systems and subsystems, ensuring performance, reliability, quality, and patient safety across IB, NPI, ATD and VCP

- Lead innovation in mechanical architecture, thermal management, structural design, mechatronics, and advanced materials to enhance product competitiveness.

- Cross-functional collaboration with Systems, Electrical, Software, Manufacturing, Quality, and Regulatory teams to deliver imaging products on time and within cost targets.

- Maintain design documentation in accordance with quality management systems and design control processes.

- Resolve critical technical challenges, conduct design reviews, product safety analysis, risk assessments, and root-cause investigations for product and field issues.

- Champion engineering excellence through simulation-driven design, DFM/DFA principles, cost optimization, and continuous product improvement.

- Mentor engineers, influence technology roadmaps, and contribute to intellectual property, platform strategies, and next-generation imaging technologies.

- Develop breakthrough technologies including additive design/manufacturing and AI-powered engineering solutions that create sustainable competitive advantage and improve patient outcomes & cost-effective solutions

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