Senior Electrical Engineer, R&D

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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:
Boston Scientific is looking for a Senior Electrical Engineer. This person will be responsible for providing electrical engineering support and expertise in the definition, design, development and test of complex implantable medical devices.

 

Work Mode:

At Boston Scientific, we value collaboration and synergy. This role follows an onsite work model, requiring employees to be present in our Arden Hills, MN office at least four to five days per week.

 

Visa Sponsorship:

Boston Scientific will not offer sponsorship or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position at this time.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Designs, develops, debugs, modifies, and tests electrical circuits and systems by using current tools, analysis techniques, and technologies.
• Documents electrical development by writing documents, reports, memos, change requests. Methods used are determined by approved procedures and standards.
• Tracks electrical development effort by creating and maintaining records in the approved tracking management tool to include, utilizing multiple version control, defect tracking, and peer review tools including Accurev, JIRA and Windchill.
• Solves engineering problems by analyzing the situation and recommending correct or alternative actions.
• Analyzes, evaluates, verifies, requirements, circuits, and systems by using engineering practices.
• Investigates, research, selects electronic circuits, components, tools, equipment and practices.
• Ability to perform design analysis and exploration testing.
• Ability to work with electrical and mechanical hardware and associated tools and infrastructure.
• Able to write final evaluation reports and work with regulatory groups to satisfy the requirements for external regulatory agencies.
• Establishes and promotes a work environment that supports the Quality Policy and Quality System. Demonstrates a primary commitment to patient safety and product quality by maintaining compliance with the Quality Policy and all other documented quality processes and procedures.
• Solves a range of problems of varying scope and complexity, generally applying existing solutions, while exercising autonomy to propose alternatives understanding their impact on the business or apply judgment based on experience to develop new solutions.
• Works independently guided by company policies, guidelines and procedures, receiving guidance on complex and unprecedented problems.
• Create schematics, layouts, BOM’s and other design outputs as needed utilizing Altium Designer.

 

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of work experience, or a master’s degree with 3+ years of work experience in Electrical Engineering.
• Ability to collect, organize, synthesize, and analyze data; summarize findings; develop conclusions and recommendations from all stakeholders using all sources of data.
• Ability to analyze test results and perform risk analysis.
• Ability to interpret and research requirements, specifications, and input/output processes.
• Experience with change management and issue tracking tools such as JIRA, AccuRev, Windchill etc.
• Requires in-depth conceptual, practical and technical and/or functional knowledge of principles and theories of board level electrical engineering and general understanding of related job functions.
• Strong analytical skills with proficiency in modeling and simulation tools.

 

Preferred qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience in hardware engineering.
• 3+ years’ experience automated and manual testing in regulated industry, preferably in active implantable medical device domain.
• 2+ year