Lead Power Electronics Engineer

GE Healthcare

(Barrington, Illinois)

Full Time

Job Posting Details

About GE Healthcare

GE (NYSE: GE) is the world’s Digital Industrial Company, transforming industry with software-defined machines and solutions that are connected, responsive and predictive. GE is organized around a global exchange of knowledge, the "GE Store," through which each business shares and accesses the same technology, markets, structure and intellect. Each invention further fuels innovation and application across our industrial sectors. With people, services, technology and scale, GE delivers better outc

Summary

The Lead Power Electronics Engineer develops and deploys common power electronics platforms across GEHC products. The position requires technology leadership, team and organizational skills, initiative, and strong expertise in power electronics. You will work with a team that defines global strategies for power conversion products for the GEHC business units.

Responsibilities

**Duties include (but are not limited to):**

* Project technical leader responsible to evaluate new technology and supplier products. 
* Select and develop power conversion products making tradeoff decisions to balance performance, cost, quality and schedule. 
* Engage with peers in power electronics throughout GEHC to enable their use of products and strategies developed in this role. 
* Communicate broadly status on projects and technical concepts to leaders as well other engineering, manufacturing and sourcing teams. 
* Work across teams and provide expertise and solutions to critical product issues. 
* Create technical reports both at detailed and summary level to show business benefits and opportunities of projects. 
* Expand knowledge of GEHC power conversion products by working with product engineers at all phases of product development. 
* Establish a network for GEHC to engage external resources, including GRC, to deliver improvements on power technologies in GEHC products. 
* Actively collaborate with modality engineering teams, sourcing, and service to define and advance common power electronics roadmaps. 
* Partner with the Global Supply chain to drive consolidation of power electronics, components and suppliers, across global businesses to deliver optimized total cost of ownership solutions to the business units. 
* Drive commonality in Power Electronics designs including: UPS, power inverters, power circuit boards, magnetics design, passive power components, battery and energy storage, and OTS power regulators. 
* Collaborate with global GE and GEHC engineering counterparts to share best practices, coordinate changes across product lines, and leverage platform commonality for maximum efficiency. 
* Drive towards standardization of power systems deployment and delivering optimized solutions for total lifecycle support, prioritizing opportunities and collaborating with partners within TRMS, the business units, and central functions, like sourcing and service. 
* Designing power systems including circuit design, simulation, PWB layout, and packaging. 
* Expert review of modality or external power designs for performance as well as safety and regulatory.

Duties include (but are not limited to):

Project technical leader responsible to evaluate new technology and supplier products.
Select and develop power conversion products making tradeoff decisions to balance performance, cost, quality and schedule.
Engage with peers in power electronics throughout GEHC to enable their use of products and strategies developed in this role.
Communicate broadly status on projects and technical concepts to leaders as well other engineering, manufacturing and sourcing teams.
Work across teams and provide expertise and solutions to critical product issues.
Create technical reports both at detailed and summary level to show business benefits and opportunities of projects.
Expand knowledge of GEHC power conversion products by working with product engineers at all phases of product development.
Establish a network for GEHC to engage external resources, including GRC, to deliver improvements on power technologies in GEHC products.
Actively collaborate with modality engineering teams, sourcing, and service to define and advance common power electronics roadmaps.
Partner with the Global Supply chain to drive consolidation of power electronics, components and suppliers, across global businesses to deliver optimized total cost of ownership solutions to the business units.
Drive commonality in Power Electronics designs including: UPS, power inverters, power circuit boards, magnetics design, passive power components, battery and energy storage, and OTS power regulators.
Collaborate with global GE and GEHC engineering counterparts to share best practices, coordinate changes across product lines, and leverage platform commonality for maximum efficiency.
Drive towards standardization of power systems deployment and delivering optimized solutions for total lifecycle support, prioritizing opportunities and collaborating with partners within TRMS, the business units, and central functions, like sourcing and service.
Designing power systems including circuit design, simulation, PWB layout, and packaging.
Expert review of modality or external power designs for performance as well as safety and regulatory.

Ideal Candidate

* Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering. 
*  At least 5 years of experience with power electronics design and architecture. 
* Understand and apply FDA / IEC and other regulatory requirements. 
* Experience with effective design verification strategies and reliability test strategies. 
* Excellent communication and technical leadership skills. 
* Excellent teamwork, coordination and communication skills. 
* Experience authoring design requirements and associated verification test procedures. 
* Experience applying design trade offs to optimize system performance. 
* Proven track record working with global teams. 
* Exceptional organizational and problem solving skills. 
* Knowledge of Medical Products and their operational environment. 
* Proven expertise to troubleshoot and evaluate power electronics and controls. 
* Experience with simulation of power circuits including experience with tools such as Spice. 
* Ability to design PWB layout using eCAD systems and basic thermal analysis. 
*  Expertise in IEC60601 safety standard family and knowledge of power safety standards and appropriate safety device applications. U.S. (Country)

**Specific Qualifications:**

* Must be legally authorized to work in the United States full-time. 
* Must be willing to work in our Waukesha, WI facility full-time. 
* Must submit application for employment through gecareers.com (or COS if internal). 
* Must be 18 years of age or older. 
* Must be willing to take a drug test as part of the selection process. 
* Must be willing to submit to a background investigation, including for example, verification of your past employment, criminal history, and educational background.

**Desired Characteristics:**

* Graduate degree in Electrical Engineering. 
* Expertise in analog and/or digital control system design and analysis. 
* Experience designing to FDA Medical Device regulations (21CFR Parts 820, 814) 
* Experience in design of High Frequency Magnetics 
* Design experience with GEHC products, design tools, and quality processes. 
* Demonstrated track record of global team leadership. 
* Experience with Supply Chain processes and external vendors. 
* Demonstrated track record for the successful execution of complex system level tasks. 
* Able to work with limited or ambiguous information and develop solutions. 
* Ability to travel approximately 10% of the time (both Domestic and International).

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering.
At least 5 years of experience with power electronics design and architecture.
Understand and apply FDA / IEC and other regulatory requirements.
Experience with effective design verification strategies and reliability test strategies.
Excellent communication and technical leadership skills.
Excellent teamwork, coordination and communication skills.
Experience authoring design requirements and associated verification test procedures.
Experience applying design trade offs to optimize system performance.
Proven track record working with global teams.
Exceptional organizational and problem solving skills.
Knowledge of Medical Products and their operational environment.
Proven expertise to troubleshoot and evaluate power electronics and controls.
Experience with simulation of power circuits including experience with tools such as Spice.
Ability to design PWB layout using eCAD systems and basic thermal analysis.
Expertise in IEC60601 safety standard family and knowledge of power safety standards and appropriate safety device applications. U.S. (Country)

Specific Qualifications:

Must be legally authorized to work in the United States full-time.
Must be willing to work in our Waukesha, WI facility full-time.
Must submit application for employment through gecareers.com (or COS if internal).
Must be 18 years of age or older.
Must be willing to take a drug test as part of the selection process.
Must be willing to submit to a background investigation, including for example, verification of your past employment, criminal history, and educational background.

Desired Characteristics:

Graduate degree in Electrical Engineering.
Expertise in analog and/or digital control system design and analysis.
Experience designing to FDA Medical Device regulations (21CFR Parts 820, 814)
Experience in design of High Frequency Magnetics
Design experience with GEHC products, design tools, and quality processes.
Demonstrated track record of global team leadership.
Experience with Supply Chain processes and external vendors.
Demonstrated track record for the successful execution of complex system level tasks.
Able to work with limited or ambiguous information and develop solutions.
Ability to travel approximately 10% of the time (both Domestic and International).