Hospitals, diagnostics and medical devices

Hospitals, diagnostics and medical devices covers the software inside and around medical equipment. It runs the hospital's own operations, from checking a surgeon's licence to tracking every instrument through sterilisation. It runs the lab's analysers and the tests themselves, from a routine blood test to reading a tumour's genes. It is inside the scanners that take medical images and the AI that reads them, and inside the implants, surgical robots and bedside monitors of the large device makers. This Industry Vertical holds the companies that build all of it.

These are mostly large global makers of medical equipment, and India is one of their main engineering bases. GE HealthCare and Philips write much of their scanners' software in Bengaluru, Medtronic builds in Hyderabad and Pune, and lab-instrument makers like Beckman Coulter Diagnostics, Cepheid and Radiometer have teams in Bengaluru. India has its own companies here too, like Qure.ai, whose AI reads chest X-rays and CT scans in dozens of countries, 4baseCare, which profiles cancers for Indian patients, and Meril, the Indian device maker with heart valves, implants and a surgical robot of its own.

For an engineer, this is software that has to be proved safe before it reaches a patient. Software inside a medical device is regulated, so test engineers are the most common opening and in far stronger demand than at most product companies. Embedded firmware and C/C++ engineers have a real place, writing the code inside the machines, and healthtech software engineers are several times as common as usual.

Hospitals, diagnostics and medical devices is one of the Industry Verticals of Domain VI, Healthtech and life sciences. Every company named on this page has posted software engineering jobs in India.

The four Market Segments

The Market Segments go from the hospital's operations, through the lab and the scan that inform a diagnosis, to the devices used in treatment.

Hospital operations software

Credentialing, staff scheduling, surgery scheduling and the tracking of instruments and equipment come from companies like symplr, CertifyOS, Censis Technologies and CenTrak.

Diagnostics and lab testing

Lab analysers, lab information systems and the tests themselves, including cancer genomics, come from companies like Beckman Coulter Diagnostics, Cepheid, Clinisys, Labcorp and Guardant Health.

Medical imaging and radiology AI

Scanners, and the AI that reads the images they take, come from companies like GE HealthCare, Philips, Qure.ai, DeepTek and Carpl Radiology.

Medical device makers

Implants, surgical robots and bedside devices come from companies like Medtronic, Stryker, Smith+Nephew, Resmed and BD.

Who they hire

What hospital, diagnostics and medical device companies hire software engineers for, and which roles they hire, is on the Hospitals, diagnostics and medical devices hiring page.

That is Hospitals, diagnostics and medical devices, the equipment of medicine and the software that makes it work.