Test engineers. Before a scanner, a pump or a surgical system can be sold, its software has to be verified against medical-device rules, and every change tested again. Test engineers do this work, mostly at GE HealthCare, Medtronic, the lab-instrument maker Beckman Coulter Diagnostics and the dental-aligner company Align Technology. They automate in Java and Python with Selenium, Playwright and Cucumber, test companion apps with Appium, and some test embedded devices directly. They are well above their usual weight, and testing takes the most juniors here.

Software Engineer, Healthtech. Medical device and lab companies also hire under a plain software engineer title. Most of these roles are ordinary product work at GE HealthCare, the lab-instrument makers, like Beckman Coulter Diagnostics and Cepheid, and the device makers, in Python, Angular and Java on AWS or Azure, where healthcare is the setting rather than the skill. A smaller part is defined by healthcare itself, and these postings require DICOM, the format of medical images, IEC 62304, the safety standard for medical-device software, and HL7 and FHIR, mostly at the imaging and patient-monitoring company Philips and GE HealthCare. Together, healthtech software engineers are several times as common here as at a typical product company.

Java backend and full-stack engineers. Java engineers build the services behind the scanners' software, the lab's ordering and results systems, and the hospital's credentialing tools, mostly full-stack with Angular on AWS. Java is less common here than at most product companies, and its share fell sharply between July and September 2026.

Cloud and DevOps engineers. Imaging, device data and hospital software now run partly in the cloud. Cloud engineers run these platforms, at GE HealthCare, Philips and Medtronic, in Python with Kubernetes, Terraform and AWS or Azure. They hold about their usual place.

Embedded firmware engineers. Pumps, sterilisers, surgical tools and monitors have software inside them. Firmware engineers write it in C and C++ on embedded Linux and real-time operating systems, with device drivers and CAN Bus, at GE HealthCare, the steriliser maker STERIS, the surgical-device maker Stryker and the imaging company Philips.

.NET engineers. The software a hospital runs its staff and supplies on, and the lab's information systems, were largely built on the Microsoft stack. .NET engineers build them in C# with Angular or React and SQL Server, mostly at the hospital-operations software company symplr and the lab-software company Clinisys.

C/C++ systems engineers. The scanners run on Linux machines with their own drivers and networking. C/C++ systems engineers work at that layer, with the Linux kernel, board support packages and TCP/IP, mostly at GE HealthCare and Medtronic. Unusually, this role takes juniors readily here, through GE HealthCare.

Platform developers. The hospital-operations software company symplr hires many developers who build and extend its platform in C# and SQL. This group is about twice as common here as elsewhere.

Mobile engineers. Many devices now come with an app for the patient or the clinician. Mobile engineers build these companion apps, at Medtronic, the drug-delivery company West Pharmaceutical Services and GE HealthCare. They are more common here than at most product companies.

Also present. A small group of GenAI engineers, far below their usual weight, at symplr, GE HealthCare and Clinisys, generalist software engineers, a few Software Engineer, Security roles working on the security of connected devices, frontend and data engineers, and Salesforce developers at the testing lab Guardant Health.

Rare here. SAP and pure web start-up roles barely appear.