Principal Systems Engineer - Boston Scientific

Additional Location(s): US-CA-Valencia

Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.

About The Role: As a Principal Systems Engineer for the Boston Scientific Neuromodulation R&D team, you will play an important role in systems design from concept to product launch across implantable and connected cloud & mobile product systems. As a Principal Systems Design Engineer, you are responsible for system level design of complex implantable medical devices by developing system requirements from user needs and stakeholder inputs, designing and documenting system architecture, and guiding the implementation of system features through hardware/firmware/software development and verification activities. You will provide support for system integration activities using systems engineering principles and techniques.

At Boston Scientific, we value collaboration and synergy. This role follows a hybrid work model requiring employees to be in Valencia, CA office at least three days per week.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Serve as technical lead on a cross-functional engineering team
• Define and analyze system requirements, clinical workflows, and input/output processes by using systems engineering methods and techniques
• Apply critical thinking to solve systems integration problems and make recommendations
• Utilize architecture design tools to develop and document system-level interactions
• Create design documentation such as requirements rationale, requirements tracing, system change analysis within our quality system
• Writing reports for and working with internal regulatory team to satisfy the requirements for external regulatory agencies
• Apply project management principles to plan, track, execute, and report status of projects within a range of team sizes
• Support system risk management activities, such as FMEA’s and risk/hazard analysis

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field
• 8+ years of engineering experience. Master’s may substitute for 2 years of experience
• 5+ years of engineering experience in mixed HW/SW systems
• 3+ years of experience in the design, development, and testing of embedded systems and/or active implantable medical devices
• Ability to interpret and develop system requirements and system specifications
• General experience working in a lab environment