Sr. Principal Systems Engineer

Job Description

Job DescriptionJob Summary:

The Senior Principal Systems Engineer will develop next generation optical glucose sensor platforms, build system architecture for sensor interfaces and connectivity to microcontroller based wearable systems, mobile phones, and cloud-based systems for next generation wireless sensor platforms.

Duties and Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Analyze, evaluate, define and plan innovative solutions to complex technical problems relevant to our patients and clinicians
• Develop and apply expert knowledge in multiple technical specialties related to systems, chemical, mechanical, electrical, firmware, and software engineering for medical devices
• Create complex and reliable system architectures involving implantable medical devices with multiple wireless interfaces to wearable medical devices, mobile phones, and cloud-based systems.
• Analyze retrospective field data and prospective failure modes and create new requirements and design to mitigate these failure modes to create safe and effective medical devices.
• Serve as technical contributor in the development, application, implementation and evaluation of mathematical models and signal processing algorithms for processing of the data returned from Eversense glucose sensors
• Provide systems engineering expertise to improve the accuracy, stability and overall performance of the Eversense glucose sensors
• Work with internal staff as well as external consultants and vendors to develop and test the Eversense glucose sensor system and external control systems on mobile phones and the cloud.
• Employ scientific and engineering principles to foresee technical and schedule risks and to develop and implement appropriate mitigation approaches to minimize risk and maximize value to our patients and clinicians
• Maintain technical skills and knowledge at a high professional level

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Requirements:

• Master’s degree or Ph.D. in Engineering (Electrical, Mechanical, Biomedical, Chemical, Software or Optical), Computer Science, Physics, or math, or related or equivalent subject
• Experience in performing modeling & simulation, preferably using MATLAB
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Extensive experience in Systems Engineering.
• Extensive familiarity Near Field Communication (NFC) and Bluetooth wireless communications
• Technical expertise and experience in several of the following areas: optical sensing, optical instrumentation, biophysics, mathematical modeling, signal processing and stochastic processes
• Minimum of 5 years of mathematical modeling, R&D, or product development experience
• Product development experience in the medical device field