About the Role
Title: Sr Systems Engineer (Remote/Flexible)
time type
Full time
job requisition id
REQ-2024-8003
Job Profile Name Senior Systems Engineer
Position Overview:
The Senior Systems Engineer is a member of the Systems COE and a technical expert responsible for supporting systems engineering activities for various applications newly developed or enhanced by the Mobile & Cloud Software Engineering group. The position will directly involve hands on development of performance models, non-functional requirements, grey box testing, integration testing for cloud-based services that support the Insulet Product Eco-System, several data management partners and internal downstream consumers such as data analytics. Education and work experience should encompass an engineering discipline in computer science or related field and should have prior work experience in cloud-based products, understanding of data models, enterprise system performance and scalability.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as a key member of a cross-functional project team consisting of software, analytics, Site reliability engineers, Cloud Operations, Medical, Marketing, Data engineering, Privacy, Regulatory, Product owners, Product Managers and quality engineers to achieve project deliverables
- Lead system definition tasks such as generating user needs, product requirements, and use-case descriptions
- Contribute to system development by defining solution architecture and concept generation
- Own the System Hazard Analysis and conducts safety risk assessment of issues
- Provide system impact and safety risk assessment of component failure modes as input to DFMEA
- Triage and/or troubleshoot production issues and incorporate into requirements and risk documents
- Develop performance models and non-functional requirements in support of system scalability and performance
- Serve as technical consulting resource for integration, subsystem and system verification activities creating integration plans, perform review of test coverage and hands on integration testing
- Create and maintain traceability among design input, design output, verification and validation, and risk management artifacts to ensure completeness and fully traceable design history file
- Participate in review of data models and generate data mapping, data driven requirements as needed
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor of Science or equivalent degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or related field is required
- 5-7 years of overall experience in software industry in engineering or related roles
- 5+ years of experience working as a Systems engineer in cloud-based products
- 3+ years hands on experience in building performance models, developing non-functional requirements and supporting system integrations including grey box testing
Minimum Requirements:
- Good understanding of web services, microservices, HTTP protocols, REST APIs, SOA
- Familiarity with database concepts and usage
- Experience working with large cross-functional teams
- Exposure to data models, data driven requirements and data governance
- Expertise in Systems Engineering practices such as system architecture, requirements management, design trade-off and cost-benefit analysis, hazards and risk assessments
- Expertise in concept generation, developing performance models and non-functional requirements
- Excellent project team skills; experience and capability working collaboratively under a Quality Management System (QMS), as part of a cross-functional team that includes development, verification/validation, marketing, clinical, regulatory and quality experts.
Preferred Skills and Competencies:
- Master of Science degree is desired; System Engineering training and/or certification is a plus
- Experience or formal training in established Systems Engineering concepts.
- Prior experience integrating/testing cloud connected mobile applications on Android/iOS platforms a plus
- Experience reviewing verification plans, protocols and reports in a regulated industry.
- Familiarity with IEC 62304, ISO 14971, FDA regulations and international standards applicable to medical device software development, verification, and validation a plus.