Software Engineer-C++

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