Lead Electrical Engineer - RF Body Coils

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Job Description Summary
Position: Lead Electrical & RF Coil Engineer for MRI

Location: Florence, SC

Relocation Benefits: Competitive relocation package available

Job Description:

GE Healthcare is seeking a Lead Electrical & RF Coil Engineer for MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) to join our team in Florence, SC. This role involves understanding the function and design of RF circuits, RF electronics, and antennas, and applying this knowledge to the design of high-power Body Transmit/Receive coils and low-power receive-only coils.

Key Responsibilities:

Design and implement RF designs to optimize cost, manufacturability, reliability, and serviceability of the final product.
Develop new component and product designs for RF Body Coil and Transmit Chain components.
Maintain and enhance existing installed base products.
Study various component interactions (Magnet/Gradient/Body Coil) for MRI systems and provide solutions accordingly.
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Job Description

Responsibilities:
  • Designing high power and low power RF electrical components and interconnects for body coils used in MRI systems.
  • Design and analysis of RF transmit/receive components (birdcage antenna, circuit boards, etc.)
  • Usage of RF and EM (electromagnetic) simulation/ design tools to ensure robust and efficient product design.
  • Engaging in all phases of new product development, including concept, architecture, documentation, design, prototype, test, product cost, supplier interfaces, manufacturing introduction and service support.
  • Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure product performance, quality and reliability.
  • Participate and lead prototype build activities to ensure compliance with design intent. Recommend design experiments and tests as required to draw conclusions and solutions.
  • Solve complex and ambiguous problems. Perform troubleshooting (at bench level and system level) encompassing multiple variables to achieve root cause analysis and problem resolution.
  • Recommend designs and conduct experiments and diagnostic tests, as required, to draw conclusions and solutions.
  • Support Field issues through troubleshooting and root cause investigation for problem resolution.
  • Develop robust designs for new or existing products that can be produced economically and according to established project timelines.
  • Provide creative solutions to unstructured product and system design issues from both factory and field.

Required Qualifications:
  • Bachelors in Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Physics, or equivalent technical degree.
  • Minimum 3 years of engineering experience.
  • Demonstrated experience in electrical design or circuit board design.
  • Experience with electrical circuit and/or electromagnetic (EM) simulation tools.

Desired Characteristics:
  • Experience with Electrical CAD software (Cadence, etc.) and computational (Matlab, etc.) or simulation tools (XFdtd, etc.).
  • Good understanding of Magnetic Resonance Imaging fundamentals, RF Coil design and electromagnetics.
  • Experience with MRI system operation.
  • Experience with numerical analysis tools and optimization methods.
  • Hands on hardware experience on mechanical systems and components.
  • Ability to work with cross-functional, multidisciplinary teams.
  • Leadership, teamwork, and interpersonal skills.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.

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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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
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