Roles they hire for
- Imaging platform software engineer
- Embedded monitoring engineer
What they emphasise
- Imaging and monitoring platforms
- Regulated development
- Embedded Linux
Brush up on
IEC 62304Real-time LinuxData acquisitionRisk analysisVerification
How the rounds usually run
A typical regulated product loop for embedded roles. Companies vary by team and seniority.
Recruiter or hiring-manager screen
- Background in regulated or safety-critical work
- Role fit
Example: Have you worked under a formal development process? Which one?
Technical 1: C, RTOS and state machines
- Embedded C and RTOS fundamentals
- State machine design and implementation
Example: Implement a table-driven state machine in C and explain how you'd test every transition.
Technical 2: Safety and design
- Fault detection, safe states and recovery
- Risk analysis and software FMEA
- Verification and traceability
Example: How would you detect a stuck sensor reading?
Panel: cross-functional
- Working with systems, hardware and quality engineers
- Handling changes under change control
Example: A hardware change lands late. How do you assess its impact on certified firmware?
HR
- Motivation and values
- Logistics
Example: Why do you want to work on medical or industrial devices?
Practice questions
Original questions written for GE HealthCare's focus areas, not leaked ones.
- Design a data acquisition path that never drops samples from a detector.
- How would you run real-time tasks alongside Linux on an imaging system?
- What goes into a software risk analysis for a firmware change?
- How do you verify timing requirements on a medical device?
- How do you handle field updates for regulated devices without re-certifying everything?
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Design rounds to practise
Themes are inferred from GE HealthCare's public product lines.
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