Senior Manager Systems Engineering

Innovation - Diversity - 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.           

 

Senior Systems Engineering Manager

Neuromodulation Division

Valencia, CA

 

Purpose

 

This is a critical management role in BSC Neuromodulation R&D, within the Systems Engineering function. The Sr. Manager will lead a high performing team responsible for design, test and verification of connected systems including implantable medical devices, externalized HW, data transfer to/from servers, peripheral devices & the display of valuable information to customers.  This role is highly cross-functional both inside and outside of R&D, and interfaces with a global team of R&D engineers.  Team members work across the organization, often serving as a primary technical point of contact for program management, marketing, regulatory, technical services, reliability and clinical functions. Team members also support multiple programs in the Technology Development (TDP), Product Development (PDP) and Sustaining phases for the Neuromodulation business.

 

The Systems Engineering team’s primary activities are to help define innovative & high valued products for the business, create system requirements & design, partner with various R&D functions to develop these products, and perform system evaluation activities (test development & verification) to ensure high quality. Throughout this process, the Senior Systems Engineering Manager oversees the efficient, high-quality design and evaluation of these products. This manager also devotes a significant portion of time to managerial, leadership & staff development activities and balances this with program accountability. 

 

 

Responsibilities

 

• Directly manages a team of full-time employees spanning a broad range of engineering levels as well as non-exempt employees.
• Provides direction & guidance to team members who exercise significant latitude & independence in assignments. 
• Builds strategic internal & external partnerships to further departmental & business goals.
• Works collaboratively with Quality & Regulatory functions to ensure product approval & compliance with company & regulatory body policies (Ex. FDA, MDR, etc.).
• Ensures robust system engineering processes, organizational policies & operational plans to achieve department goals.
• Drives functional & technical excellence in Systems for Technology & Product Development.
• Recruits, coaches, trains & develops Systems organizational talent.
• Fosters a diverse workplace so all participants contribute to their full potential in pursuit of organizational objectives.
• Responsible for developing, monitoring & adjusting resource allocations, budgets & schedules across multiple programs for the department.
• Collaborates with other managers/groups to assign tasks & schedule work to achieve project deliverables on time. 
• Provides estimates, metrics, reports & updates on projects to Program Management & R&D.
• Helps manage/oversee systems requirements, architecture, tracing, characterizations, algorithm implementations, test architecture, test infrastructure & development, test eqp, system verification, security and risk assessm