Senior Systems Engineer

Job Description Job Description Title: Senior Systems Engineer
Duration: Oct 2, 2026 Oct 1, 2027
Location: San Diego, CA 92130
Job Description:
Summary:

• The Senior Systems Engineer serves as a key technical leader throughout the product lifecycle, translating customer and stakeholder needs into system requirements, managing technical risk, coordinating system integration activities, and ensuring successful verification and validation.
• This individual partners closely with cross-functional teams to drive product development, resolve complex system-level challenges, and continuously improve engineering processes and product performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead system-level engineering activities throughout the product lifecycle, from concept through launch and sustaining.

• Translate customer and stakeholder needs into clear, testable, and traceable system and product requirements.

• Lead requirements development, management, and traceability activities across complex hardware, software, and integrated systems.

• Plan, facilitate, and document system-level risk assessments, hazard analyses, and design reviews to ensure risks are identified and appropriately mitigated.

• Lead system integration planning and execution, identifying and resolving system-level issues throughout development and sustaining activities.

• Own verification and validation strategy, planning, coordination, execution oversight, and traceability to ensure product requirements are met.

• Develop and execute reliability planning activities and support data-driven product quality improvements.

• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration among Reliability, Statistics, Software, Electrical, Mechanical, Quality, Regulatory, Manufacturing, Clinical, Marketing, and Operations teams.

• Serve as a technical leader on project core teams, helping identify technical risks, resource needs, and critical path activities required to achieve project milestones.

• Investigate and resolve complex system behavior issues, product performance concerns, and technical challenges across development and commercialized products.

• Mentor and guide less experienced engineers in systems engineering processes, tools, and best practices.

• Identify, champion, and implement continuous improvement initiatives to enhance engineering effectiveness, product quality, and development efficiency.

• Apply Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) methodologies and engineering best practices across all projects.

Qualifications
Required

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Science, or a related technical discipline. A postgraduate degree is preferred.

• 3-5 years of relevant engineering experience, or an equivalent combination of advanced education and engineering experience.

• Demonstrated experience leading systems engineering activities for complex products or integrated systems.

• Strong understanding of the product development lifecycle from concept through launch.

• Experience with requirements development, requirements management, and requirements traceability.

• Experience planning and executing system-level verification and validation activities.

• Experience leading risk management activities, including FMEA, hazard analysis, and risk mitigation planning.

• Familiarity with system integration, reliability engineering, design reviews, and technical problem-solving.

• Excellent technical writing, communication, and presentation skills.

• Ability to influence and collaborate effectively across multiple engineering disciplines and business functions.

• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to work independently while providing technical leadership within cross-functional teams.

• Strong attention to detail.

Preferred

• Experience developing medical devices or products within a regulated industry.

• Experience leading systems engineering efforts on software-enabled or connected products.

• Experience with requirements management tools and model-based systems engineering concepts.

• Experience with statistical methods, Design for Six Sigma (DFSS), reliability engineering, or design optimization techniques.

• Experience driving technical leadership within cross-functional product development teams.

• Experience working in Agile or hybrid product development environments.

Leadership Expectations
Successful Senior Systems Engineers are recognized as technical leaders who:

• Drive systems thinking across complex product development efforts.

• Influence technical direction through data-driven decision making.

• Proactively identify and mitigate technical risks.

• Build strong cross-functional partnerships.

• Mentor and develop other engineers.

• Champion engineering excellence and continuous improvement.
• Balance customer needs, business objectives, technical feasibility, and regulatory requirements to deliver successful products.