Senior System Engineer

Job Title

Senior System Engineer

Job Description

Job title:

The Senior Systems Engineer is responsible for gathering, analyzing, and reviewing system-level and sub-system requirements, coordinating system partitioning and total system integration using systems engineering practices, working under general supervision. The role suggests design recommendations to improve system reliability and address conflicting requirements, ensuring optimal performance and user experience. The role evaluates system performance and reliability through experimentation, data analysis, and implementation of improvements, ensuring alignment with project objectives and quality standards. The role handles internal investigations into technical complaints regarding development and system integration issues, driving resolution, and implementing preventive measures to mitigate future issues.

Your role:

• Assists with the “High Level” systems view of our product design (architecture and system requirements) and how it fits within a larger product portfolio, including ensuring proper allocation and ownership of requirements to the subsystem and component levels.
• Derives requirements from high-level marketing requirements into product-level functional requirements.
• Works hand in hand with the program manager, product manager, and cross-functional leads to ensure the overall product/solution system integrity from concept to end-of-life of the product, including meeting all expectations from major stakeholders like manufacturing, quality, regulatory bodies, and reliability in addition to customers and patients.
• Provides internal and external customer interface to arbitrate key architecture conflicts.
• Owns the safety risk management implementation and compliance.
• Coordinates with User Interface, Engineering, Marketing, Procurement, Operations, and V&V teams.
• Leads and participates in design reviews, including reviews of design inputs and outputs.
• Keeps abreast of new developments in all relevant technological domains.
• Advises on change requests for system and related products.
• Provides technical leadership to ensure overall product development success.

You're the right fit if:

• BS in relevant engineering field (MS degree preferred).
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in embedded hardware or software development, ideally in a regulated industry.
• Preferred - familiar with C/C++ or circuit board design
• Experience with the following standards is preferred, but not least: ISO 14971, IEC 60601-1, IEC 62304, IEC 60601-2-4, and/or IEC 60601-1-2.
• Has in-depth understanding of both hardware and software for integrated products.
• Strong understanding of safety risk management, including FMEA, design mitigations, and compliance to risk management standards.
• Working knowledge of tools and processes related to system configuration management from specifications development, traceability, version control, defect tracking, and field feedback.

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