HW Systems Design Engineer - Technical Fellow

$124,100 - $235,800/Yr

Boston Scientific - Santa Clarita, CA

Full-time - Senior

Hybrid - Santa Clarita, CA

Miscellaneous Manufacturing

About the position

The HW Systems Design Engineer - Technical Fellow at Boston Scientific is a senior technical leadership role focused on guiding the development of electro-mechanical systems within the Neuromodulation R&D team. This position involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to transition product concepts into market-ready solutions, ensuring that user needs, market opportunities, and business requirements are effectively balanced. The role requires a deep understanding of system architecture and design, as well as the ability to lead and mentor engineering teams in best practices throughout the product development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Design and architect Neuromodulation Product Systems with a focus on HW systems.
• Provide technical leadership on cross-functional technology development, product development, and engineering teams.
• Design and establish product and/or commercial system architectures in collaboration with technical and cross-functional core teams and stakeholders.
• Act as an R&D representative on cross-functional deliverables.
• Collaborate with stakeholders outside R&D to understand current and future market needs and incorporate these inputs into platform designs that are forward looking.
• Translate high-level customer, business & manufacturing needs into technical requirements.
• Ensure effective development and support of hardware, ASIC, mechanical, electrode/lead and software systems and associated interfaces.
• Create, establish, and document system architectures and design control elements.
• Define and analyze system requirements, clinical workflows, and input/output processes using systems engineering methods.
• Identify technical risks, develop risk burndown plans, and implement phased system integration approaches to mitigate risk.
• Create and support documentation as part of the Product Development Process (PDP) and Quality Management System.
• Provide expertise and guidance for validation and verification activities.
• Guide projects to meet industry-based standards & aid in the creation of internal standards.
• Collaborate with Program Managers to plan & execute projects within timelines & budget.
• Drive mechanisms for detailed project planning, tracking, and issue identification.
• Drive program-related technical risks and spearhead the creation of comprehensive risk mitigation and contingency plans across R&D functions.
• Manage technical dependencies and critical path items.
• Liaise with project team members, stakeholders and upper-level management to effectively communicate project expectations, status, and deliverables.
• Lead and mentor a team of systems engineers on systems engineering best practices.
• Uphold the highest degree of technical rigor and guide the team to follow technical rigor throughout all program phases.

Requirements

• BS in Engineering or Science
• 10+ years of work experience with BS, 8+ years with MS, 5+ years with PhD
• Demonstrated experience translating ambiguous and high-level customer, end user, business, and manufacturing needs into technical requirements.
• Experience in creating and aligning stakeholders to a vision, strategy & designs for technology efforts that span multiple products.
• Experience designing system-of-systems architecture, sub-system definition, interface definition, and integration.
• Experience driving electrical, mechanical and system miniaturization.
• Experience working with medical device microprocessor, ASIC or SOC (system on chip) system architecture.
• Experience in leading system characterizations and trade-offs analyses for power budgets, data storage/transmission, battery selection, BLE antenna designs, lead/electrode designs for various use cases.
• Experience in developing and implementing HW sensors (Ex. accelerometers) into closed loop systems involving multiple hardware, firmware, and algorithm modules.
• Knowledge of electrode development and integration into hardware systems.
• Strong experience with advanced statistics, including T-Test, ANOVA, Design of Experiments (DOEs), Response Surface analysis, multi-variate analysis, population analysis techniques, probability, 6 Sigma, Monte Carlo analysis, etc.
• Expertise in test method development, Gage R&R and establishing performance metrics.
• Black Belt Certification in Lean Sigma, Six Sigma, DRM, Design for X (DFM, DFR, DfSS, etc.).
• Experience in leading technical and architecture trade-offs to optimize design, performance, usability, manufacturability, cost-efficiency and reliability.
• Experience in integration and overseeing collaboration among hardware, mechanical, electrical, algorithms and software teams.
• Experience in algorithm and firmware development and product implementation.
• Experience designing, developing and launching hardware-cloud-app systems.
• Experience leading R&D team failure analysis investigations, root cause identification and driving process/product improvements.
• Proficiency in project management and project management tools (e.g., MS Project, JIRA).
• Experience in the medical device, aerospace, electronics, or other advanced technology and/or regulated industries.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in leading technical and architecture trade-offs to optimize design, performance, usability, manufacturability, cost-efficiency and reliability.
• Experience in algorithm and firmware development and product implementation.

Benefits

• Annual bonus target (subject to plan eligibility and other requirements)
• Core and optional employee benefits