Job Description Summary
As Lead Image Quality Engineer (f/m/d) you will actively shape the image quality of our ultrasound systems and make a significant contribution to the advancement of modern imaging technologies. With a strong hands on scanning mindset, technical expertise, and a keen sense for visual perception, you will work on optimizing and integrating image quality related features across the entire product lifecycle. You will gradually assume responsibility within innovation driven development projects, act as a technical interface between engineering, clinical experts, and product teams, and ensure that image quality is technically excellent, clinically meaningful, and visually compelling.
At GE HealthCare, our machines, our software, our solutions, our services, and our people make a genuine difference to medical professionals and patients all over the world. That’s because we never lose sight of what healthcare really needs—the human touch.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
- Application and fine‑tuning of image quality settings parameter including signal / image processing and advanced computer vision filters to achieve the optimal balance between technical performance, clinical relevance and visual/aesthetic perception.
- Advanced image quality tuning with respect to ultrasound probe characteristics such as frequency range, bandwidth, geometry, and acoustic performance through a strong hands‑on self‑scanning and volunteer scanning focus.
- Active contribution and progressive leadership for projects focused on advancing next‑generation image quality, development and integration of state‑of‑the‑art technologies from concept evaluation to product integration.
- Act as technical driver for new developments with clear ownership of their impact on clinical image quality.
- Creative thinker with a strong sense for visual perception, capable of designing and shaping new image impressions and image quality concepts for visual and clinical impact.
- Collaborate closely with cross‑functional engineering teams, including software, advanced technology or acoustics during product development by providing detailed image quality feedback, tuning requirements, and system integration constraints.
- Serve as a close interface to our clinical and product teams, aligning image quality performance towards clinical use cases and external evaluation feedback.
- Support clinical evaluations (internal/external), visit global key-opinion-leader/customers and translate their feedback into actionable image quality enhancements.
- Support of existing products in collaboration with our Clinical and Service teams by addressing critical install base customer feedback and incorporating needed image quality improvements.
Your Profile:
- University degree in Medical Engineering or a related technical field / degree
- Basic knowledge of human anatomy and physiology
- Expertise in ultrasound imaging or related field
- Ability to understand clinical feedback (internal and external) and translate it into technical improvements
- Proven project management skills
- Strong sense for visual perception and attention to detail
- Ability to collaborate across disciplines
- Confident and professional presence during customer visits and events
- Excellent communication skills in English; German language skills desired
- Availability for occasional business travel (1-2 meetings per month)
What we offer:
- We offer a role specific compensation and a competitive salary and fringe benefit package reflecting your profile and experience.
- In Austria we are required to state the minimum pay. For this position, the annual compensation package starts at € 72.000. We will be pleased to discuss the appropriate effective salary based on your qualifications and experience.
- An exciting and diverse range of responsibilities in a growth-oriented company
- An interdisciplinary team and an international work environment
- Flextime and flexible working hours
- Free electric charging stations and ample parking facilities on the company premises
- An additional day off for your birthday
- Convenient public transportation access with a complimentary company shuttle to the Redl-Zipf train station, located 2 km away
If you are interested in learning more we are looking forward to your online-application!
Don't meet all the requirements? We are aware that there is almost never a perfect profile. You can learn (almost) anything as long as you are interested and enjoy new topics and challenges. In short: we look forward to receiving your application, even if you do not yet meet the requirements 100%!
About us
GE HealthCare is a leading global medical technology and digital solutions innovator with over 100 years of healthcare industry experience and around 50,000 employees globally. We enable clinicians to make faster, more informed decisions through intelligent devices, data analytics, applications and services, supported by our Edison intelligence platform. We operate at the center of an ecosystem working toward precision health - digitizing healthcare, helping drive productivity and improving outcomes for patients, providers, health systems and researchers around the world.
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.
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.
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