Principal Test Engineer

MiniMed•Los Angeles, CA

18h•$109,000 - $205,000•Hybrid

About The Position

In this exciting role as a test engineer, your responsibilities will include developing and implementing test strategies related to wireless diabetes therapy systems. You will develop test plans, test methods, and present reports to ensure the next generation of diabetes products meet the highest standard of quality, performance, and safety. You will collaborate with project leaders to execute design verification for new products in development and evaluate design changes for additional testing. Additionally, you will function as technical lead across testing. You will collaborate with engineers across various disciplines and non-engineering functions to help patients manage diabetes with world class products. This will be a hybrid position which requires a person to be onsite a minimum of 3 days a week. During testing, the expectation is to be onsite for the duration of that test.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering with a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience. Or an advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.
Experience working on electromechanical systems or medical devices.
Experience with test method development and measurement systems analysis.
Ability to travel up to 30% and support testing at external test labs within the U.S.

Nice To Haves

A degree in Electrical Engineering or related field with experience or familiarity with EMC and RF Testing
Experience collaborating with a team of engineers and non-engineers.
Experience working in a regulated industry with rigid design and development controls
Experience with using and interpreting data from measurement and test equipment.
Experience with Standards and Regulations related to Medical Radio Devices (IEC 60601-1-2, European Radio Directive, FCC Part 15/18, etc.)
Ability to communicate technical knowledge to other engineers as part of a large collaborative work environment.
Ability to manage multiple projects and activities.
Willingness to learn and adapt to new challenges on a broad spectrum of topics.
Ability to develop, utilize, or modify SW tools (written in either LabView, Python, MATLAB)
Experience with planning and executing formal tests and generating detailed records
Experience mentoring and developing engineers

Responsibilities

Develop test strategies activities associated with a family of insulin therapy systems used by individuals to effectively manage Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.
Create EMC and RF test strategies for new product development.
Merge real-world data and use conditions with in-house testing to promote user centric designs.
Interpret data provided by a broad spectrum of lab equipment such as spectrum analyzers, signal generators, power amplifiers, environmental chambers, and similar.
Collaborate cross functionally across R&D functions and provide assessments with standards and global regulatory teams to expand global availability of MiniMed systems around the world.
Lead discussions with key functions (Electrical Engineering, Software R&D, Systems Engineering) to develop robust wireless communication systems.
Review and contribute to risk management deliverables like failure modes effects analysis (dFMEA/pFMEA) and identify potential patient hazards.
Demonstrate exceptional communication and technical writing skills while collaborating with large cross-functional teams (R&D, Ops, Regulatory, Quality).
Support growth within the R&D test team as subject matter expert across various products.