Senior Systems Design Engineer

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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 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.

Your responsibilities will include: 

You will be responsible for completing system engineering activities, from early phase development to market release. Your key tasks will include:

• • 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.

Required Qualifications:

• • 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• • 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.

Requisition ID: 629783  

Minimum Salary: $ 85000  

Maximum Salary: $ 161500  

The anticipated compensation listed above and the value of core and optional employee benefits offered by Boston Scientific (BSC) – see will vary based on actual location of the position and other pertinent factors considered in determining actual compensation for the role. Compensation will be commensurate with demonstrable level of experience and training, pertinent education including licensure and certifications, among other relevant business or organizational needs. At BSC, it is not typical for an individual to be hired near the bottom or top of the anticipated salary range listed above.

Compensation for non-exempt (hourly), non-sales roles may also include variable compensation from time to time (e.g., any overtime and shift differential) and annual bonus target (subject to plan eligibility and other requirements).

Compensation for exempt, non-sales roles may also include variable compensation, i.e., annual bonus target and long-term incentives (subject to plan eligibility and other requirements).

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Boston Scientific transforms lives through innovative medical technologies that improve the health of patients around the world. As a global medical technology leader for more than 45 years, we advance science for life by providing a broad range of high-performance solutions that address unmet patient needs and reduce the cost of healthcare. Our portfolio of devices and therapies helps physicians diagnose and treat complex cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive, oncological, neurological and urological diseases and conditions. Learn more at and follow us on  LinkedIn .

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