Senior Systems Engineer

Senior Systems Engineer - Macquarie University, NSW

Lead systems engineering activities across sound processor product development projects, driving the design, development, and delivery of innovative solutions that meet customer and business needs.

Responsibilities

• Lead systems engineering activities for sound processor product development projects.
• Collaborate to define system architecture, product requirements, and maintain requirement traceability.
• Drive system level design decisions, issue resolution, and cross functional technical alignment.
• Lead feature development, including requirements definition, design, verification, and deployment.
• Support regulatory submissions through the creation of high quality technical documentation.
• Contribute to product family engineering strategy, systems engineering best practices, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Qualifications Essential

• Degree in Engineering or Science, preferably in Electrical, Software, Mechanical, Biomedical or Systems Engineering.
• Minimum 5 years post qualification engineering experience within an R&D environment.
• Experience working with firmware controlled systems and/or embedded signal processing technologies.
• Understanding of systems engineering principles, methods and tools used in medical device development.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills with the ability to work effectively across cross functional teams.
• Excellent communication skills and experience delivering outcomes in a collaborative team environment.

Ideal

• Understanding of the technical architecture and application of Cochlear products and systems.
• Experience with Product Family Engineering principles and reference design concepts.
• Experience in sound processor development or implantable device systems.
• Experience working within highly regulated industries, particularly medical devices.
• Experience working in Agile product development environments.
• Demonstrated capability to provide technical leadership, mentoring and systems engineering guidance.

What Makes This Opportunity Unique

This role offers the opportunity to influence the future of Cochlear's sound processor technology while working across multiple engineering disciplines. You will have direct visibility of how your work improves the lives of Cochlear recipients, contribute to strategic product family planning and architecture decisions, and further develop your future expertise in systems engineering within a highly innovative and regulated medical device environment.

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