Senior Engineer, Design Quality, Software
Olympus Corporation of the AmericasAbout the role
Working Location: Minnesota, Brooklyn Park
Workplace Flexibility: Hybrid
For more than 100 years, Olympus has focused on making people’s lives healthier, safer and more fulfilling.
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.
Our five Core Values empower us to achieve Our Purpose:
Patient Focus, Integrity, Innovation, Impact and Empathy.
Learn more about Life at Olympus: https://www.olympusamerica.com/careers.
Job Description
The Senior Design Quality Engineer provides professional expertise for Software quality and best practices in SW development across the global organization and assists development teams in applying regulatory rigor to Agile SW development practices, including SW release and manufacturing. This individual will lead Software Quality’s participation in specifying and monitoring SW manufacturing and post-market operations. The Senior Design Quality Engineer serves as a subject matter expert for the application of medical device SW regulatory standards to the Olympus SDLC, including ISO 13485, 21CFR820, IEC 62304, IEC 82304, ISO 14971, ISO 81001-2, and AAMI TIR34971/CR34971. This individual will be 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 and operations teams on Software processes and practices including SW release, manufacturing, and post-market operations.
- Working with global cross functional teams, explore and implement harmonization of SW manufacturing and operations processes across different Olympus legal entities
- Advise Olympus as a Subject Matter expert on regulations around SW manufacturing and cloud operations.
- Advise Olympus as a Subject Matter expert on regulations around SW post market monitoring for Medical and Health Software products.
- Collaborate on the update of SDLC and operations processes and activities for the manufacture, distribution, and operations monitoring of SW.
- Collaborate on the update of SDLC and operations processes and activities for the inclusion of product security in SW operations environments.
- Represent Olympus’s SW manufacturing and post-market operations QMS during inspections and audits.
- Perform capability audits of software projects.
- Establish and monitor performance metrics for SW manufacturing and post-market activities.
- Support the establishment of a dashboard for post market operations for SW products.
- Communicates significant issues to senior management, including appropriate containment and correction activities, as applicable.
Job Qualifications
Required:
- Undergraduate (BS) Degree in engineering, computer science, life sciences, or other related degree field.
- Minimum of 8 years of experience in the field of software development, software testing, or systems engineering, or 6 years for advanced degree.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in a medical device setting.
- Experience in the application of relevant standards to medical device software manufacturing, release, and post-market operations.
- 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.
- Strong teamwork and communication skills to work effectively on cross-functional project teams, Interacting with a diversity of disciplines such as R&D, Quality Engineering, Regulatory Affairs, etc.
- Independent organizational and time management skills is required.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.
- Will work with global teams; availability will include work
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