Job Description Summary
As a Software Engineer – PET Data Acquisition, you will join a highly specialized team developing the real-time software stack at the core of GE HealthCare’s PET/CT imaging systems.
Our software directly impacts image quality and system reliability, enabling clinicians worldwide to provide accurate diagnoses and life-saving care.
You will work on a distributed, high-performance C++ system running on Linux, responsible for configuring detector hardware, processing high-throughput data streams, and enabling seamless integration across the scanner ecosystem.
Job Description
About the Team
Our team develops the data acquisition platform powering GE HealthCare’s PET/CT scanners.
This system:
- Configures and interfaces with detector hardware
- Receives high-rate event streams via UDP
- Performs real-time sorting and time-stamping of coincidence events
- Manages acquisition state and persistence
- Exposes control and monitoring APIs to clinical applications
The platform is a distributed, multi-process, multi-threaded C++ system running on Linux, designed for deterministic, high-performance operation under demanding workloads.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop end-to-end data acquisition features, from low-level UDP capture and event processing through service layers and client APIs
- Optimize and maintain performance-critical code paths, including:
- Lock-free / low-contention data structures
- Thread affinity and NUMA optimization
- Zero-copy buffer management
- Deterministic real-time execution
- Enhance and maintain inter-process communication mechanisms, including shared memory, message queues, and service interfaces
- Work with embedded persistence layers (SQL-based) for configuration, metadata, and runtime state
- Collaborate closely with hardware, physics, and system teams to integrate new detector and system components
- Develop unit and integration tests, and actively participate in code and design reviews
- Troubleshoot complex cross-process issues using advanced debugging and profiling tools (e.g., gdb, perf, tcpdump, strace)
Required Qualifications
- B.Sc. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- 4+ years of experience in C++ development on Linux, including modern C++ (C++14/17)
- Strong experience with:
- Multi-threaded and multi-process systems
- Synchronization primitives, memory models, and concurrency challenges
- Inter-process communication (IPC) mechanisms such as shared memory, sockets, and message queues
- Solid understanding of system-level programming and performance optimization
- Working knowledge of SQL / relational databases – advantage
Why Join GE HealthCare?
In this role, you will work on a deep, high-impact codebase that directly contributes to the performance and quality of medical imaging systems used globally.
This position offers:
- Exposure to real-time, high-performance systems at scale
- Opportunities to work across software, hardware, and clinical domains
- Growth in both technical depth (RT systems, performance, low-level optimization) and system-level architecture
- The chance to contribute to technology that improves patient outcomes worldwide
Why Join GE HealthCare?
In this role, you will work on a deep, high-impact codebase that directly contributes to the performance and quality of medical imaging systems used globally.
This position offers:
- Exposure to real-time, high-performance systems at scale
- Opportunities to work across software, hardware, and clinical domains
- Growth in both technical depth (RT systems, performance, low-level optimization) and system-level architecture
- The chance to contribute to technology that improves patient outcomes worldwide
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.
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.
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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Additional Information
The job is open to men and women equally
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
