Principal Systems Engineer

Lead the transformation of desired outcomes (customer/business needs) into quality solutions for customers

Drive and monitor the technical content, integrity, and integration of the system

Drive collaboration with cross-functional partners to achieve technical alignment

Identify top project technical risks and drive activities to mitigate risk

Evolve the solution to address learnings from the risk burndown and system integration activities

Mature solution concepts with cross-functional partners to address trade-offs and allocation to subsystems

Communicate solution concepts to the core team, business, and cross-functional teams

Drive organizational alignment of system solutions through influence

Lead the identification of the Systems Engineering activities, durations, dependencies, and work breakdown structure and delegate appropriate tasks to systems engineers on the project team

Develop the system engineers on the project team through coaching/mentoring

Lead the Systems Team supporting the project, responsible for providing technical review and decisions related to the technical content and escalating challenges with recommendations

Account for technical correctness of final delivered solution

Lead user engagement sessions to collect user inputs

Define user workflows and drive procedure development solutions

Drive implementation of the technical aspects of selected solution: define Design Input Requirements, define system design (including use cases, system interfaces, etc), allocate functionality/performance to subsystems, and review subsystem designs

Define and execute plans to drive maturity of technology and algorithmic features, to reduce risk as necessary (e.g. clinical or pre-clinical download studies)

Develop and Execute System Risk Burn Down Activities to retire risk and demonstrate system capability

Lead teams to develop and execute a robust and efficient system verification and validation strategy

Establish evaluation & launch strategy (e.g. alpha/beta testing, Key Performance Indicators)

Participate in defining and execution of clinical trial design or Limited Release Evaluation strategy (if required)

Provide technical guidance on customer training and deliver training on new system features

Monitor Key Performance Indicators and develop responses should any fall out of range

Proactively detect and manage any issues with the system that arise during the early launch, including Field Corrective Actions

Provide technical oversight and on-site support over the initial launch of the product until it is stable in the market and ready to transfer to Released Product Engineering

Lead identification and documentation of solution’s technical lessons learned

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