Senior Engineering Manager – Install Base

GE Healthcare GE Healthcare · Healthcare · Bengaluru, Karnātaka, India · Digital Technology / IT

This role leads end-to-end product development and Installed Base (IB) stewardship for Monitoring Systems, focusing on product quality, regulatory compliance, customer satisfaction, and cyber resilience. It involves managing complaint handling, hazardous investigations, and IB performance metrics, leveraging AI-enabled analytics and automation to enhance design quality and field outcomes. The role also establishes operating mechanisms, enforces QMS rigor, and develops leadership talent within the Install Base engineering team.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead the Install Base engineering team, including hiring, performance management, talent development, and succession planning.
  2. Lead product development, verification, and sustaining engineering across the full lifecycle, ensuring quality, regulatory, cost, delivery, and cybersecurity outcomes.
  3. Establish robust IB operating mechanisms, including governance, standard work, and performance dashboards to ensure consistency, efficiency, and compliance.
  4. Drive complaint and CSO lifecycle management using data and AI insights for timely resolution and leadership visibility.
  5. Lead hazardous investigations with strong quality and cyber rigor, ensuring compliant and timely closure.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Electronics, Mechanical, Embedded Software Engineering, or a related STEM field.
  • Minimum 10 years of engineering experience
  • 3+ years in regulated medical product development
  • 3+ years leading teams or complex, cross-functional programs
  • 3+ years working with global, distributed teams
  • Experience across the full SDLC, including release cycle management
  • Hands-on experience managing Installed Base (IB) issues in the field
  • At least 2 years in functional leadership roles, including people leadership and vendor management
  • Demonstrated success leading cross-functional initiatives involving complaints, CSOs, field operations, and cybersecurity-driven releases.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and executive stakeholder management skills.

Nice to have

  • Deep expertise in Installed Base processes: complaint handling, CSO execution, hazardous investigations, and field actions.
  • Strong working knowledge of QMS and regulatory environments (ISO 13485 required; FDA / EU MDR preferred).
  • Experience improving product cyber posture, including vulnerability management, secure design practices, and cyber release governance.
  • Ability to define, instrument, and interpret IB dashboards and metrics; drive CAPAs and continuous improvement using data and AI insights.
  • Hands-on experience with manual and automated testing, engineering change control, and design transfer.

What the JD emphasized

  • regulated medical product development
  • full SDLC
  • release cycle management
  • Installed Base (IB) issues
  • functional leadership roles
  • cross-functional initiatives involving complaints, CSOs, field operations, and cybersecurity-driven releases
  • QMS
  • ISO 13485
  • FDA / EU MDR
  • product cyber posture
  • cyber release governance