Sr Principal Electrical Design Architect Leader

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Summary:

Haemonetics designs and manufactures medical devices that separates blood components (e.g. apheresis devices) for therapeutic treatments, pharmaceutical industry, blood transfusions, and other diagnostic equipment to support the healthcare blood management industry.

This is a key and critical role in the research and development team based at 125 Summer Street, Boston, MA. (5-minute walk from South Station) The candidate should have extensive experience in technical engineering leadership for the overall concept, design, integration, reliability, and test of existing and next generation product enhancements. The candidate should have a diverse set of skills beyond Electrical Design Architect Engineering discipline, but a Technical Leader who has demonstrated success in building technical foundational tools, infrastructure, and processes in these engineering disciplines.

Your Responsibilities:

Design, develop, and maintain medical device platforms that separates blood components (e.g. apheresis devices) for therapeutic treatments, blood transfusions, pharmaceutical industry, and diagnostic equipment to support the healthcare blood management industry.

Electrical Design Architect Capabilities:

• Technical Leader and Subject Matter Expert (SME) in a wide range of engineering disciplines including: analog and digital design, mixed signal & timing analysis, microprocessor and firmware design, EMC design and mitigation, EMC and safety medical standards (IEC 60601-1/ IEC 60601-1-2) compliance, design for reliability and planning, statistical sample size determination, hardware verification, and systems engineering.
• Lead cross functional technical team discussions following design control process from product's requirements, designs, verification, and product release while meeting our customers demanding requirements of size, weight, power, cost, environmental, and other use model conditions.
• Lead technical discussions with key component suppliers in the areas of analog/ digital converters, power supplies, optical sensors, electromechanical devices, microprocessors, motor controllers, redundant safety circuits, touchscreen user interfaces, fluid controls, and other technologies.
• Demonstrated technical success in translating Customer/User requirements/needs into reliable low-cost product designs.
• Build design tools and engineering capacities for modeling analog/ digital circuits using various simulation tools, and other development environments including circuit simulations.
• Design & build electric prototypes and prove design feasibility, functionality, and performance.
• Document all phases of the design including requirements, specifications, plans, reviews, test procedures, test reports, and design for manufacturing (i.e. drawings, schematics, experiments, changes, test results, data, PCB layout, etc.)
• Lead existing product failure investigations: Investigate and determine root cause of product issues found in manufacturing and the field. Troubleshoot systems, PCBs, cables, and firmware. Develop tool & test equipment to analyze and resolve issues.
• Demonstrating success in technical mentorship with peers and colleagues in reliability and electrical design.

Strong Reliability Engineer Capabilities:

• Lead and support the Reliability Engineering initiatives by enhancing our reliability procedures, tools, and other critical components producing high quality compliant products.
• Lead and coordinate efforts to establish product reliability goals and to plan, execute and monitor activities aimed at achieving those goals post release.

• Provide technical depth of knowledge in reliability methodologies.
• Provide reliability cross disciplinary mentorship including: reliability analyses, reliability predictions, reliability testing, planning, and reliability related problem solving.

• Lead the definition, documentation, implementation and improvement of reliability engineering policies, processes, and practices.

Your Profile:

• BSEE /MSEE with at least 15 years (or equivalent engineering degrees) experience in product design and reliability of complex electrical/mechanical products in the medical device industry.
• Subject Matter Expert (SME) in a wide range of engineering disciplines including: analog and digital design, mixed signal & timing analysis, microprocessor and firmware design, EMC design and mitigation, EMC and safety medical standards (IEC 60601-1/ IEC 60601-1-2) compliance, design for reliability and planning, statistical sample size determination, hardware verification, and systems engineering.
• Strong experience in FPGA design and methodologies (Preferred).
• Demonstrated success in analog/digital electrical designs and Reliability, Taking designs from concept to production.
• Demonstrated competence in methodical and effective troubleshooting. Excellent problem-solving skills (root cause analysis).
• Demonstrated ability to lead, communicate, and influence effectively at all technical levels across the organization and functions.
• Demonstrated competence in product design & reliability tools, statistical sampling, and methodologies.
• Ability to document complex designs including: system requirements, theory of operation, schematics, interconnect diagrams, test procedures, test reports, risk analysis, and failure analysis.
• Design experience with FDA/IEC (IEC 60601-1 Safety standards) regulated medical devices is required.
• Experienced in EMC reduction techniques.
• Experienced leader in mentoring and assisting fellow colleagues in design and development.
• Highly passionate and positive infectious attitude who strives for high performance and product design quality.
• Ability to effectively implement continuous improvements to increase efficiency and promote simplification while maintaining project schedules.
• Proficient in standard office computer tools: Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, Project, and PowerPoint.
• Excellent communications skills, written and verbal.

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