Staff Software Engineer - Distributed Embedded Systems

GE HealthCare•Madison, WI

About The Position

The Staff Software Engineer develops life-critical embedded software for anesthesia delivery systems and related vaporizer technologies. The role calls for balanced professional experience with RTOS-based software and Embedded Linux in distributed, multi-processor systems involving communications, hardware control, and FPGA-based functions. It is a hands-on technical leadership position responsible for complex subsystem work, system-level design decisions, mentoring, and preserving critical product and architecture knowledge. The engineer is expected to understand how software and FPGA-based control fit together and drive that architecture with FPGA and hardware engineers; FPGA logic or HDL development is not required. The position also offers the opportunity to become a trusted expert in distributed embedded systems and the anesthesia and ventilation-delivery domain. GE HealthCare describes its total rewards as offering flexibility, competitive compensation, career opportunities, and a culture of care, collaboration, and support. The company also states that it provides professional development and relocation assistance. It will not sponsor employment visas for this opening, and candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Offers are conditioned on successful completion of a drug screen, as applicable.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
At least 8 years of software development experience, including significant embedded systems experience.
Strong and comparable professional experience in RTOS-based embedded software and Embedded Linux.
Extensive C++ experience in concurrent, real-time, resource-constrained, or reliability-critical systems.
Experience designing and integrating distributed embedded systems involving multiple processors, communications, hardware interfaces, and FPGA-based control.
Ability to drive architecture and integration for an FPGA-enabled system; FPGA or HDL development experience is not required.
Strong system integration, platform bring-up, debugging, technical leadership, and communication skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC or a similar heterogeneous SoC combining application processors, real-time processors, and programmable logic.
Knowledge of control systems, including real-time control, closed-loop systems, modeling, simulation, or control-algorithm integration.
Experience with FreeRTOS or another RTOS, Linux BSPs, drivers, boot processes, kernel interfaces, and ARM-based systems.
Experience in medical devices or another regulated, safety-critical industry.
Experience mentoring engineers and developing reusable embedded platforms.
Interest in becoming a system-level and domain expert in anesthesia and ventilation delivery.

Responsibilities

Lead the design, implementation, integration, and verification of distributed embedded software across RTOS and Embedded Linux.
Define and review interfaces among processors, software subsystems, communications, hardware, and FPGA-based control.
Work with FPGA and hardware engineers to establish responsibilities, data flows, timing, diagnostics, fault behavior, and integration plans.
Lead work involving real-time behavior, concurrency, platform bring-up, BSPs, drivers, boot processes, inter-processor communication, and low-level debugging.
Make technical decisions involving performance, determinism, reliability, maintainability, cybersecurity, safety, and fault handling.
Lead design and code reviews, mentor engineers, and help resolve complex product and field issues.
Contribute to platform roadmaps, reusable software, automated testing, CI/CD, and development-tool improvements.
Work with systems, controls, hardware, quality, clinical, cybersecurity, and global software teams.