Principal System Engineer / Technical Lead (Engineering)

Job Posting Start Date 01-06-2025 Job Posting End Date

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Job Summary

Farm, a Flex company, has over 45 years of experience providing award-winning development services for medical, life sciences, and consumer healthcare companies. Our talented researchers, designers, and engineers work in a highly collaborative environment on innovative products designed to improve people's lives. At Farm, you'll learn from bright, like-minded individuals excited to tackle the world's healthcare technology challenges.

Farm is integral part of Flex, a global and multi-national design and manufacturing company that partners with the top medical device OEMs in the world.

Located in Southern, NH, our employees have the best of both city and country living with a convenient drive to Boston, the ocean, and the mountains. We attract talent from all over the world and offer competitive salaries and benefits.

The Principal Systems Engineer/ Technical Lead will be based in Hollis, New Hampshire.  We are seeking an experience, highly collaborative, hands-on development engineer to join our talented and dynamic product development group and play a critical role in creating the next generation of advanced medical technologies.

What a typical day looks like:

• Work on an exciting range of products - connected health wearables, new technology therapy systems, surgical robotic systems – with both early-stage startups and Fortune 100 medical device companies.

• Serve as the Systems Engineering technical lead on complex projects within a fast paced and intelligent team environment, with a hands-on approach for concept through verification and transfer.
• Collaborate closely with clients and internal technical teams to:
  • Create and manage system and sub-system requirements  
  • Conceptualize and document innovative architectures, system workflows, and interfaces that achieve product goals
  • Identify and investigations and trade studies to inform design direction
  • Lead product risk management activities such as RMP, FMEA and mitigations strategies
  • Define and implement system integration strategies.
  • Develop test strategies appropriate to the product development stages.
• Be a key contributor to  technical aspects of programs, ensuring that design content and deliverables are accurate and that they meet or exceed our client's requirements.
• Contribute to program plans, schedule, and resourcing strategy.
• Collaborate with industrial design, user interface, human factors, mechanical, electrical, software, and quality teams to create exceptional product designs.
• Deliver compelling presentations to clients and internal teams to communicate design approach, value, tradeoffs, and recommendations.
• Support business development engagements by leading capability presentations and technical discussions, program strategy and proposal creation, and networking.

The experience we're looking to add to our team:

• Bachelors or Master's degree in Engineering (mechanical, biomedical, electrical, software, or similar).
• 10+ years of product development experience, 3+ years project systems leadership with a mix of early-stage design, full development, and new product introduction, including medical devices.
• Highly collaborative attitude and developed interpersonal and communication skills.
• Versatility to quickly ramp up on, assess, and resolve diverse product challenges.
• Hands-on experience  developing electromechanical devices with the ability to lead and review the work of others.
• Significant experience being the lead for project planning, system and sub-system requirements development and management, architecture generation, risk management, systems integration, and test strategies.
• Demonstrated ability to architect and simplify complex systems, manage interdisciplinary trade-offs.
• Demonstrated experience leading a team to develop innovative feasible designs, resolving design challenges, and producing high quality deliverables.  
• Experience employing  various system modeling and analysis approaches.
• Working knowledge of the following  areas with a strength  in at least one
  • Electrical sub-systems and technologies – communications, power, processing, actuation, sensors, etc.
  • Mechanical design, various manufacturing  and assembly techniques including plastic part design, metal fabrication, extrusions, plastic joining, etc.
  • Software/firmware  development and technologies
• Working knowledge of medical device standards such as  ISO 13485, ISO 14971, IEC 60601-1, IEC 61010-1, IEC 62304, etc.

Here are a few of our preferred experiences…

• Experience using requirements management tools – such as DOORs, Polarion, Jira, etc.
• Statistical analysis methodologies
• Engineering simulation software (FEA, CFD, etc.).
• Familiarity with Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
• One or more of: Fluidic systems, robotics, diagnostics, catheters, materials, optics, coding, sensor integration

What you'll receive for the great work you provide:

• Full range of medical, dental, and vision plans
• Life Insurance
• Short-term and Long-term Disability
• Matching 401(k) Contributions
• Vacation and Paid Sick Time
• Tuition Reimbursement

Job Category

Design, Process & Technology Engineering

Is Sponsorship Available?

No

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