What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Systems Design Engineer position at Katalyst CRO?
Responsibilities
- The Systems Design Engineer will provide direction and leadership in system architecture and design; specify and validate systems and subsystems; development, verification and validation of algorithms; and contribute to overall system architecture and design.
- Work and interact as part of the systems design group within R&D.
- Interact closely with other functional groups within the R&D department as well as Product Marketing and Manufacturing Engineering.
- Work and interact extensively with Marketing and Engineering to define, analyze, detail, and document specifications for tradeoffs, performance, features, controls, and operation of products into a form suitable for product implementation.
- Lead system integration of the specialist areas of a product.
- Plan and conduct in-depth reviews, testing and verifications/validation of product features.
- Critically analyze and verify system performance through simulation, test, and measurements.
- Specify and develop improvements or enhancements to existing products and champion implementation if necessary.
- Provide technical direction at systems level to other team members.
- Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or Computer Sciences. "Generalists are preferred over "Specialists.
- Experience in image processing techniques and/or optical systems design.
- Experience in system specification tradeoffs, development and integration of complex products, preferably medical electronic instruments.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Ability to adapt quickly to change and work in a rapidly changing environment.
- Knowledge of or prior work experience in one or more of the following subject areas would be helpful: Medical electronic instruments, ophthalmic instruments, imaging or non-imaging optics, image processing, machine vision systems, human vision, modeling and simulation tools (MATLAB, Labview, Mathematica), PC applications and OEM integration, Displays, medical safety/regulatory agency compliance testing and requirements.
- Experience in medical device development or testing.
- Experience in ophthalmic systems.
- Demonstrated ability to work with Marketing and with other engineering groups in resolving design trade-offs.
