Senior FPGA & Digital Hardware Engineer

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

As a Senior FPGA & Digital Hardware Engineer on our Digital Controls & Mixed Signal Engineering team you will design circuit boards and FPGA-based systems for high-performance data acquisition control processing and communications.
We are seeking a hands-on engineer who enjoys working across board-level digital hardware and programmable logic. Your experience may be stronger in board design or FPGA development. You do not need to be a full-time RTL designer or have experience with every technology listed.

Depending on your experience and interests this role also offers opportunities to lead technical projects mentor engineers influence architecture and improve engineering practices.


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.

• Design and verify digital circuit boards and FPGA-based subsystems for advanced MRI platforms.
• Develop and modify RTL using VHDL or Verilog and support designs through simulation synthesis timing closure and hardware validation.
• Design boards integrating FPGAs processors memory data converters power supplies clocks and communication interfaces.
• Perform component selection schematic development design reviews board bring-up laboratory testing debugging and system integration.
• Define and validate interfaces among FPGA hardware firmware software ASIC and system components.
• Debug FPGA board-level and system issues using simulation embedded debug tools and laboratory equipment.
• Support signal integrity power integrity layout EMC reliability and manufacturability reviews.
• Share technical knowledge through design reviews documentation collaborative problem solving and mentoring.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering or a related field.
• Five or more years of experience developing digital hardware FPGA designs or a combination of both.
• Experience using VHDL or Verilog for FPGA design modification integration or debugging.
• Experience with schematic development component selection board bring-up laboratory testing and troubleshooting.
• Understanding of synchronous digital design clocking resets metastability clock-domain crossing constraints and timing analysis.
• Experience integrating FPGAs or programmable devices with processors memory data converters or communication interfaces.
• Experience with one or more interfaces such as Ethernet PCIe DDR LVDS JESD204 SPI I²C UART CAN or comparable technologies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience mentoring engineers through design reviews collaborative debugging or hands-on technical work.
• Experience with high-speed digital interfaces memory data converters signal integrity power integrity or multi-gigabit transceivers.
• Experience with automated FPGA builds simulation continuous integration or hardware testing.
• Experience developing products in medical devices aerospace defense telecommunications industrial controls automotive scientific instrumentation test and measurement or similar industries.

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.

Note to Applicants

We welcome engineers whose experience is stronger in board-level digital hardware FPGA development or a combination of the two. You do not need experience with every FPGA family interface or development activity listed.

We value strong engineering fundamentals technical curiosity sound judgment and an honest description of what you have personally designed integrated tested or debugged.

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 youd expect from an organization with global strength and scale and youll be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters care collaboration and support.

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