at Starkey Laboratories, Inc. in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States
Job Description
Description
The Senior Systems Design Engineer I is responsible for leading the design of new products and ensuring that they meet associated requirements for total hearing system including, but not limited to; hearing aids, accessories, manufacturing software, fitting software, mobile applications, programmers, their components and sub-systems. S/He also is responsible for risk analysis, problem solving, and issue resolution along with support of other engineering design teams. S/He must possess effective communication skills, technical expertise, creativity, and internal drive to lead the creation of designs that are recognized as best-in-class in the hearing aid industry. S/He must be able to work well both independently and in a team environment. The Senior Systems Design Engineer I is primarily responsible for interacting with new product development groups; however, may also be responsible for supporting continuation engineering and technology development, as needed. S/He is expected to develop a working knowledge of patient and clinician needs, through establishing relationships with Product Management, Marketing, and /or Sales.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES/RESULTS
Provide leadership for the definition of the system architecture, the system level requirements for hardware, software, features, accessories, and mobile apps and their flow down requirements to relevant subsystems of current and future products
Provide execution of requirements development and management, including identification of best practices and use of requirement management tools.
Support interaction with cross functional customer facing groups to ensure desired product capabilities are reflected accurately in the architecture description
Own Systems Impact Analysis and drive system design options and recommendations for product change requests, scope change requests, and Charter approvals, as appropriate.
Drive, document, and deliver high-level system architecture, design, interfaces, risks, and tradeoffs that support product development schedules.
Support creation of system / subsystem architecture design documents (e.g. operational concept, system functionality description, state transition description, sequence diagrams, systems interface description, use cases, verification matrices, etc.).
Use requirement management techniques to translate user requirements, design guidelines, and standards into system level requirements.
Ensure system requirements are accurate, complete and delivered on time throughout the entire product life cycle.
Create / update requirements based on lessons learned (including gaps in legacy requirements), manufacturing data, field data (Customer First, Rework and Repair), quality data, and regulatory or standards updates.
Support derivation of system requirements into subsystem requirements.
Generate and maintain traceability from user requirements to system requirements.
Own and drive risk analysis and mitigation plans in collaboration with the program / project team per the risk register or DFMEA process.
Understand and provide direction on system-level design tradeoffs.
Facilitate cross-functional peer review of requirements; own and drive resulting action items.
Ensure that all system requirements are met.
Drive compliance assessments for each design review during the product lifecycle
Support Systems Verification Engineers to ensure they have valid verification plans for each integration point of a program / project.
Collaborate with Systems Verification Engineers to create the Systems Verification Allocation matrix to ensure verification of the integrated system design.
Ensure generation and maintain traceability from system verification test results for the program / project to system requirements.
Identify, analyze, own, and drive system-level technical issues
Ensure technical issues identified during system development and verification are documented with clear descriptions of steps to reproduce and configuration under test in relevant tools.
Ensure technical issues are analyzed and that the results are clearly documented in relevant tools.
Provide regular updates on issues assigned in relevant tools.
Own and drive technical issues to resolution working with cross-functional team members.
Perform other duties commensurate with a "senior" engineer role.
Perform work with little to no supervision as department subject-matter expert
Mentor, coach and provide work direction to junior engineers, technicians and interns.
Proactively own and drive process improvements and lean product development efforts.
Prevention and proactive ownership of critical product development and process problems within Systems Engineering and product development programs.
Use experience and critical thinking skills to make appropriate design decisions... For full info follow application link.
Starkey Hearing Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer Minority/Female/Vet/Disabled.
