Sr. Principal Engineer

Our client is an American multinational healthcare company. For over a century now, they have delivered on their commitment to saving and sustaining the lives of patients, working alongside clinicians and providers around the world. At the intersection of progress and purpose, they are redefining what it means to be a global medtech leader. Their forward-looking leadership team is a driving force in ensuring we meet the needs of all our stakeholders—every day and everywhere. They strive to create lasting value by empowering their patients, protecting the planet, and championing people and communities.

Responsibilities:

• Defines design requirements and hardware specifications based on customer or user requirements.
• Contributes to the development and documentation of electronic system architectures.
• Creates designs of analog and digital electronic circuit schematics for microcontroller-based systems, meeting performance objectives.
• Analyze circuits using calculation and simulation methods to assess performance limits, effects of environmental and load stresses, and timing interfaces to ensure consistent performance in safety critical applications.
• Ensures successful integration of electrical design with mechanical and software elements of the system.
• Completes deliverables related to design of systems and sub-systems of the overall electrical architecture.
• Develops, modifies, and approves electrical design documentation, specifications, and drawings.
• Supervises/coordinates engineers and/or technicians assigned to execute the project.
• Defines appropriate test methods to verify designs meet their performance requirements.
• Mentor the layout of circuit assemblies to meet emissions and immunity performance requirements and design for manufacturability guidelines.
• Implements data acquisition and analysis techniques to characterize design performance
• Executes protocols and testing required to validate the safety and effectiveness of the design(s).
• Leads the troubleshooting and problem-solving efforts related to electrical aspects of devices and associated systems.
• Creates and communicates design/test plans, tasks, deliverables, and status. 
• Manages time and resources to meet committed schedule milestones.

Requirements:

• Graduate or Postgraduate in Electrical or Electronics or related Engineering and 15+ years of experience.
• Prior experience in infusion pump domain is a plus.
• A demonstrated track record in electromechanical hardware development, preferably medical devices or other highly regulated products such as military hardware. 
• Knowledge and experience in design of embedded microcontroller-based electronics products.
• Knowledge of FPGA-based controller design and implementation is an added advantage.
• Experience testing of electronics components/devices to meet Safety regulatory requirements e.g. Immunity, emission, partial discharge etc.
• Knowledge and experience using CAD systems for printed circuit board schematic design and layout (Altium Designer, preferred), Matlab and data acquisition software (LabVIEW)
• Good knowledge of standards such as IEC 60601, IEC 61010, UL, ANSI, AIM and ASTM.
• Specific experience in design and development of sensing subsystems is highly desirable