Fellow System Verification Engineer

Additional Locations: Costa Rica-Heredia

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About the role

Seeking a highly experienced Fellow System Verification Engineer to join the Boston Scientific Neuromodulation R&D team. As a technical leader, you will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability and performance of our neuromodulation systems through rigorous verification processes. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to verify features and system functionality against design requirements. Your expertise will drive the development and execution of comprehensive system level verification strategies, while collaborating with stakeholders to define design requirements and test methodologies.

This is a Hybrid role, located in Heredia area and will require 3 days per week in the office.

 

Job responsibilities include:

Lead System Design Verification:

• Lead the verification of implantable and external Neuromodulation Product Systems with a focus on hardware/software integrated systems.
• Develop and implement verification plans, protocols, and test cases to ensure product compliance with design specifications and regulatory requirements.
• Lead and mentor a team of verification engineers on best practices, upholding the highest degree of technical rigor throughout all program phases.

Mentorship and Technical Guidance:

• Provide mentorship and technical guidance to a team of verification engineers.
• Lead cross-functional verification efforts, including hardware, software, and system-level testing, and ensure alignment with verification objectives.

Stakeholder Alignment and Collaboration:

• Collaborate with stakeholders outside R&D to understand current and future market needs and incorporate these inputs into verification strategies.
• Translate high-level customer, business, and manufacturing needs into detailed verification requirements.

Innovation in Verification Tools and Processes:

• Drive the development and support of advanced verification tools, test environments, and automated test systems.
• Create, establish, and document innovative verification processes and methodologies, and provide expertise and guidance for validation and verification activities.

Comprehensive Risk Management and Strategic Planning:

• Identify technical risks, develop risk mitigation plans, and implement phased verification approaches to mitigate risk.
• Act as a strategic leader within the Systems Engineering function, performing detailed project planning, resource and budget planning, tracking, dependency and issue identification, and reporting.

In all actions, it demonstrates a primary commitment to patient safety and product quality by maintaining compliance to the Quality Policy and all other documented quality processes and procedures.

For those individuals that supervise others, the following statements are applicable:

• Assures that appropriate resources (personal, tools, etc.) are maintained to assure Quality System compliance and adherence to the BSC Quality Policy.
• Establishes and promotes a work environment that supports the Quality Policy and Quality System.

 

Minimum Requirements:

Education and Work Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or more from an accredited school in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electromechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 10+ Years of work experience in engineering with a Bachelor’s degree.
• 3+ Years of experience working in a regulated environment, preferably Medical Device Industry.

Extensive Experience in Systems Verification:

• 6+ years of work experience in Systems Verification: Deep understanding of the verification processes and methodologies required to validate complex systems. Demonstrated experience developing and implementing robust & scalable test architectures that support multiple programs/products. Experience with test line management, optimization and automation.

Advanced Statistical Analysis:

• Strong experience with advanced statistics: T-Test, ANOVA, Gage R&R, Design of Experiments (DOEs), Response Surface analysis, multi-variate analysis, population analysis techniques, probability, 6 Sigma, Monte Carlo analysis, etc. 

Technical Leadership and Stakeholder Alignment:

4+ years of experience in creating and aligning stakeholders to a vision, strategy, and designs for verification efforts that span multiple products:

• Capable of leading cross-functional teams and ensuring that verification strategies are aligned with business and technical goals.

Experience in Technology and Product Development Phases:

• 2+ years of direct experience working in the Technology Development (TDP) and Product Development (PDP) phases of the product lifecycle: Deep understanding of the entire lifecycle of the product and ensuring that verification activities are integrated into each phase.

Designing Verification Strategies for Complex Systems:

• 2+ years of experience designing verification strategies for system-of-systems architecture, system interfaces, and integration:

• Knowledge of programming/scripting languages such as Python, C++, LabView, Matlab.
• Solid understanding of EE concepts (Ohms law, DSP, analog / digital electronics)
• Fluent on the use of EE test equipment like oscilloscope, function generators, DAQ equipment.
• Understanding of hardware-software integration.
• Skilled with version control systems (e.g., Git), Dev Ops and CICD methodologies.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks.

 

Desired Requirements:

• Experience working with medical device microprocessors, ASIC, or SOC (system on chip) system architecture.
• Experience in leading system characterizations and trade-offs analyses for power budgets, data storage/transmission, battery selection, BLE antenna designs, lead/electrode designs for various use cases.
• Experience delivering software products both as a Medical Device (SaMD) and in a Medical Device (SiMD).
• Experience with Data Privacy and Cybersecurity for connected medical product systems.
• Experience in leading technical and architecture trade-offs to optimize design, performance, usability, manufacturability, cost-efficiency, and reliability.
• Experience in integration and overseeing collaboration among hardware, mechanical, electrical, algorithms, and software teams.
• Experience in algorithm and firmware development and product implementation.
• Experience designing, developing, and launching hardware-cloud-app systems.
• Experience leading R&D team failure analysis investigations, root cause identification, and driving process/product improvements.

 

Requisition ID: 605431

 

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