Senior Systems Engineer

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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 seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Systems Engineer to provide technical expertise regarding the design and development of electronic medical systems. The successful candidate will provide technical expertise to an interdisciplinary team of Electrical/Mechanical/Software professionals from project conception to post-realization in support of the Interventional Cardiology division. Be a part of one of Boston Scientific’s most product-diverse divisions, supporting R&D in the design of exciting new products and business development activities. These products adhere to industry standards and include computing devices, single-use devices, and support devices.

 

Work Mode:
At Boston Scientific, we value collaboration and synergy. This role follows a hybrid work model, requiring employees to be in our Maple Grove, MN office at least three days per week.

 

Your responsibilities will include:

• Providing technical and system-level expertise across development teams working on the design and development of complex medical device systems.
• Lead the elicitation, analysis, documentation, and management of system-level requirements to ensure alignment with user needs, regulatory standards, and technical constraints.
• Facilitating cross-functional collaboration & decisions on difficult technical.
• issues with long-standing impact and communicating the decisions effectively.
• Specifying the architecture and design of these systems, including physical and functional approaches and the management of all system interfaces.
• Leading the integration of system elements, including internally and externally sourced items comprising both hardware and software components.
• Ensuring the deployment of Systems Engineering best practices across projects, including system concepting and design, requirement elicitation, and sustainable documentation. Managing technical progress on projects by understanding and troubleshooting issues as they arise and communicating status to key project stakeholders.
• Solving system problems through simulation, mathematical analysis, and/or systems interaction testing/analysis and providing recommendations for corrective action.
• Defining system partitioning (i.e. hardware/software partitioning) and coordinating total system integration.
• Coordinating system testing includes characterization, verification, and validation.
• Participating in the Risk Analysis discussions for the project.

 

Required qualifications:

• BS in Engineering or Computer Science.
• 6+ years of engineering experience developing and specifying HW/SW systems.
• Experience in design & development of complex system analysis from concept through commercialization.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
• Strong proficiency in creating and improving system and product requirements.
• Proficiency in drafting, analyzing, and managing product requirements, including traceability from stakeholder needs through verification and validation activities.
• Experience with Requirements Management tools like Jama.
• Demonstrated expertise in creating system-level design documentation, including system architecture, interface definitions, and design specifications across complex, multidisciplinary systems.
• Hands-on experience working with both capital equipment (e.g., diagnostic platforms, surgical systems) and single-use disposable devices.

 

Preferred qualifications:

• MS/PhD in Engineering or Computer Science.
• 6+ years of experience in a formal Systems Engineering role.
• Medical Device industry