Principal Engineer, Design Quality - Software

Working Location: MASSACHUSETTS, WESTBOROUGH 

Workplace Flexibility: Hybrid

 

For more than 100 years, Olympus has focused on making people’s lives healthier, safer and more fulfilling. ​​

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Every day, we live by our philosophy, True to Life, by advancing medical technologies and elevating the standard of patient care so people everywhere can fulfill their desires, dreams, and lives.

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Patient Focus, Integrity, Innovation, Impact and Empathy. 

 

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Job Description

This role provides professional expertise for Software quality and best practices in SW design, development, release, and support across the global organization and assists development teams in applying regulatory rigor to Agile SW development practices. This position provides subject matter expertise, technical guidance, and leadership for the application of health and medical device SW regulatory standards to the Olympus SDLC, including IEC 62304, IEC 82304, ISO 14971, ISO 13485, ISO 81001-2, ISO 81001-5-1, and AAMI TIR34971. 

 

This includes providing leadership, technical direction and collaboration on development strategies, concepts, design evaluation and proof of concept. This individual must work with product management, business units, engineering product owners and software architects to define feasible product requirements. This individual is responsible for review and approval of documentation deliverables from assigned projects as required by the SDLC and will support Regulatory Affairs’ efforts in creating submission materials for various regulatory domains including FDA, PMDA, and EU-MDR.

Job Duties

• Advise SW development teams on Software development processes and practices (SiMD/SaMD/Health SW/Cloud). Advise SW development teams on architecture in the context of regulatory impact, safety, security and best practices. 
• Investigate and implement harmonization of SW processes across different Olympus legal entities.
• Advise Olympus as a Subject Matter expert on regulations around health software development, and software for medical devices.
• Collaborate on the update of SDLC and operations processes and activities for the inclusion of ML/AI development, cloud infrastructure, and validation best practices.
• Collaborate on the update of SDLC and operations processes and activities for the inclusion of security-by-design and privacy-by-design in SW development.
• Collaborate with development teams on applying Agile development practices for continuous rapid product delivery while maintaining compliance and quality. 
• Provide project management oversight for QMS integration, Quality plans, process updates, and training.
• Represent Olympus’s SW development QMS during inspections and audits.
• Perform capability audits of software projects.
• Establish and monitor performance metrics for SW development activities.
• Support the establishment of a response framework for queries and audit findings related to the SDLC.
• Communicates significant issues to senior management, including appropriate containment and correction activities, as applicable.
• Support post-market surveillance operations including complaint monitoring and metrics. NC, CAPA, HHA, and FCA for software related activities.

Job Qualifications

Required:

• Undergraduate (BS) Degree in engineering, computer science, life sciences, or other related degree field.
• Minimum of 9 years of experience in the field of software development, software testing, or systems engineering, or 8 years for advanced degree.
• Minimum of 6 years of experience in a medical device setting.
• Experience in the application of relevant standards to medical device software and non-medical device health software development, including Software-as-a-Service.
• Experience in project management.
• Working knowledge in the application of ML/AI to Health SW and medical devices.
• Experience in working across national and cultural boundaries.
• Demonstrated capability to lead and train a large and diverse, multinational community with multiple stakeholders, working in a collaborative, coaching, mentoring and/or influencing capacity.