The Opportunity:
This position is within the Heart Failure division.
This Senior Staff RF Engineer will be primarily working on a system that remotely monitors changes in pulmonary artery (PA) pressure an early indicator of the onset of worsening heart failure to aid physicians in preventing worsening heart failure lower heart failure mortality rates and improve quality of life for the heart failure patients. The role is within the R&D organization charged with developing and releasing the next generation of components while also supporting the current generation of products.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute to a team committed to delivering the next generation of heart failure device products to help patients (and their clinicians) manage their heart failure
- Conduct bench and preclinical studies supporting product development teams for concept feasibility and formal regulatory submission
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of heart failure device electronic designs
- Draft test protocols and reports
- Independently plan coordinate and execute activity in support of project goals
- Support design reviews
- Support the development of risk management documentation
- Gain an understanding of the quality and regulatory requirements of the Company FDA and ISO regulations
- Comply with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations other regulatory requirements Company policies operating procedures processes and task assignments.
- Maintain positive and cooperative communications and collaboration with all levels of employees customers contractors and vendors
- Perform other related duties and responsibilities on occasion as assigned
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering Physics or equivalent experience.
- Experience owning and driving deliverables within a team and as an individual contributor in a fastpaced changing environment
- Proficient in collaborating with project stakeholders (client and internal) endusers business partners and technical team members
- Strong organizational and followup skills as well as attention to detail
- Strong verbal and written communication with the ability to effectively communicate to all levels of the organization
- Distilling complex topics into easily digestible content headlining key points
- RF circuit design aptitude the ability to translate requirements into circuit designs/specifications (especially in the subGHz range)
- Modeling and simulation experience both in the circuit domain as well as free space.
- Proficiency with Comsol/Ansys/HFSS/CST or other similar packages both in the context of creating new designs as well as debugging issues.
- Demonstrated initiative in going beyond assigned tasks on own agency
- History of applying critical thinking to address design challenges
- Ability to plan execute analyze and document individual scientific studies
- Ability to collect organize and analyze data using statistical methods
Preferred Qualifications:
- GPA: 3.0 or higher preferred
- 10 years experience designing testing manufacturing or other engineering support
- Medical device experience
- Experience working with an electronic document control system (Windchill etc.
- Experience working with crossfunctional teams in a geographically diverse matrixed organization
Required Experience:
Senior IC