Mechanical Principal Engineer

Location: IND19-01-Bengaluru-EPIP 122 (Phase II)

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

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

Job Description

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

Educational Qualifications:

• Bachelors /Masters/Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with minimum 15 years of relevant work experience & minimum 5 years in Health care product development.

Required Qualifications:

• Demonstrated proficiency in multiple areas including but not restricted to structural analysis, CAD/CAM, thermal flow, acoustics, injection molding, Bolted Joints, Suspended Mass, tool development etc.

• Strong expertise in supply chain, manufacturing and assembly processes

• Demonstrated experience on global product releases through multiple NPI cycles & resolving installed base issues

• Strong analytical skills and expertise in mechanical calculations & motion control drive

• Excellent communication, collaboration, judgment, organizational and problem-solving skills and mentoring skills

Desired Characteristics:

• End to end experience of delivering the 2 or3 healthcare products from concept to production.

• Strategic planner and clear thinker with ability to drive change across the product lines of the segment.

• Holding IP in the mechanical domain.

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.

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.

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