Director - RF & Mixed Signal Engineering

Job Description Summary

Why This Role Matters

At GE HealthCare, our MR hardware technologies help clinicians deliver high-quality imaging that supports confident diagnosis and patient care. As Director - RF & Mixed Signal Engineering, you will lead technologies that are foundational to MR system performance, image quality, reliability, and platform scalability. Your leadership will help ensure our RF transmit/receive, ASIC, small-signal, and mixed-signal electronics solutions are safe, manufacturable, reliable, and ready for the future.

Role Overview

You will provide strategic and operational leadership for the MR RF & Mixed Signal Engineering organization. In this role, you'll guide technical direction, develop engineering talent, and drive predictable execution across complex, regulated product development programs. You'll partner closely with Systems, Mechanical, Firmware, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Global Research, Program leadership, and the GE HealthCare Technology & Innovation Center to deliver high-quality MR solutions and advance next-generation capabilities.

Job Description

What You'll Do

• Lead, develop, and scale the MR RF & Mixed Signal Engineering organization, including hiring, coaching, performance management, succession planning, and capability growth.

• Set clear functional objectives aligned with MR business strategy, platform roadmaps, and program priorities.

• Foster a culture of accountability, technical rigor, inclusion, execution discipline, and continuous improvement.

• Serve as a senior escalation point for complex people, resource, and technical challenges across the RF & Mixed Signal portfolio.

• Own technical direction and execution for RF transmit/receive, ASIC, small-signal, and mixed-signal electronics across the full product lifecycle.

• Ensure designs meet system requirements for performance, safety, reliability, regulatory compliance, and manufacturability.

• Provide oversight across architecture, detailed design, verification, validation, and design transfer.

• Drive disciplined engineering execution through design controls, requirements management, DFMEA, DFM, and change control processes.

• Proactively identify and mitigate technical, program, and execution risks early in the development cycle.

• Own end-to-end accountability for RF transmit/receive subsystems and Patient Handling electronics.

• Serve as the single point of accountability for subsystem and component commitments across schedule, cost, quality, and risk.

• Lead subsystem-level trade-offs, prioritization, and risk mitigation with cross-functional partners.

• Ensure subsystem integration and readiness for key milestones, including RFV, M3, design transfer, and product release.

• Communicate schedule, risk, resource trade-offs, and priorities clearly to senior and executive leadership.

• Support global execution across distributed engineering teams, manufacturing partners, and suppliers.

• Define and execute RF & Mixed Signal functional strategy aligned to near-term execution and long-term technology advancement.

• Drive platforming, reuse, cost optimization, manufacturability, and supplier collaboration across MR products.

• Contribute to budget planning, headcount strategy, NRE investment decisions, and cost management.

• Improve engineering processes, execution predictability, quality, and organizational effectiveness.

What We're Looking For

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline.

• 10+ years of experience in core engineering development.

• 3+ years of experience leading functional engineering teams, preferably in electrical, RF, or mixed-signal domains.

• Experience working in a regulated product development environment.

• Proven experience leading project, product, or functional teams in a highly matrixed organization.

• Strong system-level mindset with the ability to lead through complexity and ambiguity.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline.

• Medical device experience.

• Ability to influence across organizations and drive alignment with senior leaders.

• Strong judgment and decision-making skills, including the ability to communicate technical, program, and business trade-offs.

• Experience partnering with manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and strategic suppliers.

• Knowledge of intellectual property processes.

• Experience with Lean, Agile, Design for Six Sigma, or similar product development methodologies.

• Passion for talent development and building long-term organizational capability.

• Demonstrated ability to deliver results across multiple programs while balancing resources, timing, risk, and quality.

Why Join GE HealthCare

You'll join a mission-driven team working on technologies that help improve lives in the moments that matter. This is an opportunity to shape the future of MR hardware, lead talented engineering teams, and influence platforms that support clinicians and patients around the world. You'll be part of a collaborative environment where technical excellence, inclusion, accountability, and continuous improvement are valued and supported.

Encouragement Statement

We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every preferred qualification. Many successful leaders bring a mix of experiences, strengths, and growth areas, and we value curiosity, collaboration, learning agility, and a commitment to building strong teams.

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

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: Yes