Senior FPGA & Digital Hardware Engineer

Job Description Summary

Join GE HealthCare and help develop the digital electronics behind next-generation Magnetic Resonance imaging systems.

As a Digital Hardware Engineer on our Digital Controls & Mixed Signal Engineering team, you will contribute to circuit boards and FPGA-based systems used for data acquisition, control, processing, and communications.

We welcome candidates whose experience may be stronger in digital board design, programmable-logic development, embedded systems, or laboratory integration. You do not need to be a full-time RTL designer or have experience with every technology listed.

This position may be filled at the Engineer, Lead Engineer, or Senior Engineer level based on the selected candidate’s demonstrated experience, technical strengths, and expected scope of responsibility. The final title, career level, responsibilities, and compensation will be aligned accordingly.

Early-career engineers will work with experienced team members while developing broader design ownership. More-experienced engineers may own substantial designs, lead technical projects or architecture decisions, and mentor other engineers.

GE Healthcare is a leading global medical technology and digital solutions innovator. Our mission is to improve lives in the moments that matter. 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.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities

• Design, modify, and verify digital circuit boards and FPGA-based subsystems for advanced MRI platforms.
• Develop or modify RTL using VHDL or Verilog and support simulation, implementation, timing analysis, and hardware validation.
• Integrate programmable devices with processors, memory, data converters, clocks, power supplies, and communication interfaces.
• Contribute to component selection, schematic development, design reviews, board bring-up, laboratory testing, debugging, and system integration.
• Apply sound digital-design practices for clocking, resets, clock-domain crossing, timing constraints, and reliable device operation.
• Debug board, FPGA, and system issues using simulation, embedded debug tools, and laboratory equipment.
• Collaborate across hardware, firmware, software, ASIC, systems, and mechanical engineering.
• Support products from early development through manufacturing and field support.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• Relevant hands-on experience through professional employment, internships, co-ops, research, academic projects, or substantial personal technical projects.
• Experience in one or more of the following: digital circuit-board or schematic design; FPGA or programmable-logic development; VHDL or Verilog; embedded processors, memory, or digital interfaces; board bring-up, laboratory testing, or hardware debugging.
• Understanding of digital-design fundamentals, including synchronous logic, clocking, resets, and electrical interfaces.
• Ability to analyze technical problems, explain your reasoning, and collaborate across engineering disciplines.
• Interest in developing skills across board-level digital hardware, programmable logic, and system integration.

Preferred Experience

• Component selection, schematic development, or printed-circuit-board design.
• FPGA simulation, synthesis, constraints, timing analysis, or hardware validation.
• Experience with Intel/Altera, AMD/Xilinx, Lattice, Microchip, or similar programmable devices.
• Experience with processors, memory, ADCs/DACs, Ethernet, PCIe, DDR, LVDS, JESD204, SPI, I²C, UART, CAN, or comparable interfaces.
• Experience using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, or related laboratory equipment.
• Experience with signal integrity, power integrity, EMC, high-speed digital design, or complex long-lifecycle products.
• For experienced candidates, ownership of substantial designs, technical projects, or mentoring activities.

Work Model

This hybrid position requires a minimum of three days per week on site in Waukesha. On-site work supports board bring-up, laboratory debugging, hardware validation, system integration, and collaboration with engineering partners.

We expect all employees to live and breathe our behaviors: to act with humility and build trust; lead with transparency; deliver with focus, and drive ownership –always with unyielding integrity.

Our total rewards are designed to unlock your ambition by giving you the boost and flexibility you need to turn your ideas into world-changing realities. Our salary and benefits are everything you’d expect from an organization with global strength and scale, and you’ll be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters care, collaboration and support.

#LI-MA4

We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.



Additional Information

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: No