Systems Engineer

Systems Engineer

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required in a technically related field.

Responsibilities

• Defines spinal systems and features, inclusive of software and hardware components, that meet the expectations and uses of the customer, regulatory agencies, and the business.
• Analyzes voice of the customer and voice of the business to generate prioritized customer needs.
• Translates customer needs into specific, well-written, high-quality stakeholder and system requirements.
• Assists in the definition, evaluation, and risk analysis of system designs in collaboration with other functional groups. This includes understanding system interfaces and architecture, defining use cases and conditions, investigating and resolving system issues, making improvements to address customer feedback and requests, and conducting system-level testing activities in lab-based cadaveric environments or other formative evaluation settings.
• Documents tradeoffs, rationales, and potential solutions.
• Verifies that system requirements have been properly implemented (writing, leveling, tracing) through inspection, demonstration, test or analysis.
• Supports team in identifying and mitigating technical risks, product hazards, and failure modes.
• Performs system validation activities ensuring the system meets user needs and intended use.
• Collaborates across R&D roles responsible for development of different system elements and cross-functional partners including marketing, quality, regulatory, and project management.
• Contributes to and builds domain knowledge around spinal procedures and systems, their clinical use and application, and integration of enabling technologies into spine surgery via customer and field visits, literature searches and training.
• Ensures personal understanding of all quality policy/system items that are applicable. Follows all work/quality procedures to ensure quality system compliance and high-quality work.

Preferred Qualifications

• Medical device internship experience, preferably in spine, orthopedics, or surgical navigation or robotics.
• Engineering MS degree preferred.
• Experience in Systems Engineering discipline or use of system engineering methodologies.
• Demonstrated critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to understand procedures and systems of systems.
• Experience with mechanical design and computer-aided design.
• Familiarity with software design, algorithm design, and iterative software development practices.
• Experience working in collaborative team environments.
• Excellent written and communication skills.
• Ability of working in a deadline driven environment.