Principal System Engineer / Technical Lead
Farm, a Flex company, has over 45 years of experience providing award-winning development services for medical, life sciences, and consumer healthcare companies. Our talented researchers, designers, and engineers work in a highly collaborative environment on innovative products designed to improve people’s lives. At Farm, you’ll learn from bright, like-minded individuals excited to tackle the world’s healthcare technology challenges.
Farm is an integral part of Flex, a global and multi-national design and manufacturing company that partners with the top medical device OEMs in the world.
The Principal Systems Engineer/ Technical Lead will be based in Hollis, New Hampshire . We are seeking an experienced, highly collaborative, hands-on development engineer to join our talented and dynamic product development group and play a critical role in creating the next generation of advanced medical technologies.
What a typical day looks like:
- Work on an exciting range of products - connected health wearables, new technology therapy systems, surgical robotic systems – with both early-stage startups and Fortune 100 medical device companies.
- Serve as the Systems Engineering technical lead on complex projects within a fast-paced and intelligent team environment, with a hands-on approach for concept through verification and transfer.
- Collaborate closely with clients and internal technical teams to:
- Create and manage system and sub-system requirements
- Conceptualize and document innovative architectures, system workflows, and interfaces that achieve product goals
- Identify and investigations and trade studies to inform design direction
- Lead product risk management activities such as RMP, FMEA and mitigations strategies
- Define and implement system integration strategies.
- Develop test strategies appropriate to the product development stages.
- Be a key contributor to technical aspects of programs, ensuring that design content and deliverables are accurate and that they meet or exceed our client’s requirements.
- Contribute to program plans, schedule, and resourcing strategy.
- Collaborate with industrial design, user interface, human factors, mechanical, electrical, software, and quality teams to create exceptional product designs.
- Deliver compelling presentations to clients and internal teams to communicate design approach, value, tradeoffs, and recommendations.
- Support business development engagements by leading capability presentations and technical discussions, program strategy and proposal creation, and networking.
The experience we’re looking to add to our team:
- Bachelors or Master’s degree in Engineering (mechanical, biomedical, electrical, software, or similar).
- 10+ years of product development experience, 3+ years project systems leadership with a mix of early-stage design, full development, and new product introduction, including medical devices.
- Highly collaborative attitude and developed interpersonal and communication skills.
- Versatility to quickly ramp up on, assess, and resolve diverse product challenges.
- Hands-on experience developing electromechanical devices with the ability to lead and review the work of others.
- Significant experience being the lead for project planning, system and sub-system requirements development and management, architecture generation, risk management, systems integration, and test strategies.
- Demonstrated ability to architect and simplify complex systems, manage interdisciplinary trade-offs.
- Demonstrated experience leading a team to develop innovative feasible designs, resolving design challenges, and producing high-quality deliverables.
- Experience employing various system modeling and analysis approaches.
- Working knowledge of the following areas with a strength in at least one
- Electrical sub-systems and technologies – communications, power, processing, actuation, sensors, etc.
- Mechanical design, various manufacturing and assembly techniques including plastic part design, metal fabrication, extrusions, plastic joining, etc.
- Software/firmware development and technologies
- Working knowledge of medical device standards such as ISO 13485, ISO 14971, IEC 60601-1, IEC 61010-1, IEC 62304, etc.
Here are a few of our preferred experiences…
- Experience using requirements management tools – such as DOORs, Polarion, Jira, etc.
- Statistical analysis methodologies
- Engineering simulation software (FEA, CFD, etc.).
- Familiarity with Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
- One or more of: Fluidic systems, robotics, diagnostics, catheters, materials, optics, coding, sensor integration
Here are a few examples of what you’ll get for the great work you provide…
- Full range of medical, dental, and vision benefits
- 401K Matching
- Bonus plan
- Life Insurance
- Paid time off
- Tuition Reimbursement