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Lead System Design Engineer (medical devices)

ALTEN Technology USA
Waukesha, WI Full Time
POSTED ON 11/15/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/15/2026
We're ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000 experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000 engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you'll collaborate on some of the world's toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.About the roleThe Lead Systems Designer leads a couple of cross-functional program teams. Programs to deliver the technical content, performance, intellectual property, and quality deliverables of an NPI and Research programs. The position has design responsibility to ensure that product programs achieve all design objectives required to meet customer and business needs, including: feature and functionality, quality, reliability, serviceability, manufacture-ability, regulatory, compliance and cost. The LSD must understand and capture the user needs into system requirements and is responsible for the architectural decomposition and allocation to subsystems.Responsibilities:Ensuring that the quality targets are satisfied and retires technical risks as they arise on the programLeading the design team and design control process from requirements development and design planning to design transferLeading the design team in the development of verification and validation planning and executionDeveloping requirements flow down, architecture/system design and analysis, risk analysis, integration and test, manufacturing, field and customer support including corrective and preventative actions to ensure customer satisfactionDriving the architecture, vision and design requirements for the product all the time balancing implementation complexity, risks, manufacturability, serviceability and qualityEducation and Experience:Bachelor's Degree in Engineering/Science or Bachelor's Degree and 2 years experience within technical discipline or equivalent (defined as High School Diploma/GED and 4 years progressive experience as an engineer, scientist within the appropriate field of study or within technical systems designs)5 years progressive experience as an engineer or scientist within the appropriate field of study3 yeasr experience in project leadership within a manufacturing, development or research environmentQualifications:Demonstrated experience driving CTQ flow-down to subsystemsDemonstrated ability to work with technical leadership team to implement product platform/subsystem multi-generation technology plan for a specific release of a global program/productDemonstrated broad exposure to HW/SW/Systems design and technical depth in one or more engineering disciplines (Electrical, Mechanical, Software, etc)Preferred Qualifications:Masters Degree in Engineering (Mechanical or Electrical)Demonstrated applied 6 Sigma competencyDemonstrated experience with NPI ISO and regulatory compliance process, design history file and collaterals are in place and currentCreative problem solver and solution developer when presented with conflicting requirements, business demands and technical risks/issuesDemonstrated skills in proactively identifying, facilitating and driving closure of a product/programStrong interpersonal skillsDemonstrated skills in proactively identifying, facilitating and driving closure of a product/programLocation: On-site in Waukesha, WISalary Range: $100K-$120K The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate's combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience ALTEN Technology is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our Policy is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual's age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status.Please beware of job seeker scams and see this important notice on our careers page for more information about our recruiting process.Compliance Notice: Alten USA is a federal contractor subject to the requirements of the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) and Executive Order 11246. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.Drug Screening Requirement: As a federal contractor, Alten USA maintains a drug-free workplace. All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.

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