Senior Systems Design Engineer

Boston Scientific•Arden Hills, MN

16h•$85,000 - $161,500

About The Position

As a Systems Design Engineer on our Implantable Systems team, you'll play a crucial role in developing innovative products for the Active Implantable Systems R&D team. Join our experienced design team to collaborate on cutting-edge technologies and engage in a wide range of activities, including: Collaborating with leadership and marketing on product definitions and system architecture. Developing complex electromechanical systems, including embedded systems, sensors, and algorithms, with cross-functional teams of hardware engineers, software engineers, and research scientists. Supporting Regulatory submissions and approvals through delivery of design documentation. Interfacing with Technical Services, Sales, and customers on product design and functionality.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering or related field with 5-7 years of experience.
Strong written and verbal communication, decision-making, and critical thinking skills.
Ability to build effective relationships across the organization and with external stakeholders.
Demonstrated working knowledge of systems engineering principles, requirements management, and external regulations.
Experience with requirement management tools and/or product line engineering tools.
Leadership skills with the capability to make trade-offs between risks, benefits, and performance.

Nice To Haves

Experience in the medical/diagnostics space.
Understanding and experience in the design, development, and testing of embedded, electro-mechanical medical devices.
Experience in product concept development, customer interaction, verification of engineering requirements, and validation of customer needs/design requirements.
Practical knowledge of project management concepts and experience with Agile concepts, including scrums, burnups, retrospectives, backlog and minimizing WIP.
Understanding of architecture principles such as subsystem roles and responsibilities, interfaces, resource allocation and utilization, especially as applied to embedded systems.
Experience with computer-based modeling notations and tools.
Experience developing active implantable medical device battery management systems, power electronics, battery characterization, and longevity modeling.

Responsibilities

Completing system engineering activities, from early phase development to market release.
Executing multiple systems engineering activities such as requirements definition and decomposition, system architecture design and design documentation, throughout the product development life cycle.
Applying critical thinking skills to solve complex systems interaction problems.
Providing expertise in multiple roles in the product development life cycle, showcasing deep knowledge of system functionality.
Advising project management and technical leadership on key product risk/benefit trade-offs.
Influencing cross-functional peers to make timely decisions and recommendations for project success.
Representing the Systems Engineering organization as the technical contact for assigned features, tools, or subject matters.
Providing input for submissions to regulatory bodies and governmental agencies.
Developing and supporting battery management for active implantable devices, including battery requirements and characterization, usage modeling, power budgeting, longevity prediction algorithms, replacement indicators, and field performance analysis.
Collaborating with device electrical, firmware, software, and verification teams to develop, integrate, and validate battery management algorithms and features.
Collaborating with battery suppliers to define battery requirements and characterize battery performance through modeling, accelerated testing, and real-time verification.