Prin Electrical Engineer

About the Role

As a recognized technical expert and engineering leader within the Released Product Engineering (RPE) organization, you will support the Surgical Hardware portfolio by leading complex electrical engineering activities across sustaining engineering, product enhancements, quality investigations, regulatory compliance, cost optimization, supplier changes, and lifecycle management initiatives. This role requires deep expertise in mixed-signal electronics, system integration, and product development within regulated industries, along with a systems-thinking mindset and strong technical problem-solving skills.

You will collaborate closely with mechanical, firmware, software, systems, quality, regulatory, manufacturing, supplier quality, sourcing, and operations teams to ensure safe, reliable, and compliant products throughout their lifecycle while mentoring engineers and driving engineering excellence.

Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership
  • Serve as the electrical engineering subject matter expert for sustaining engineering, quality, compliance, and product enhancement initiatives.
  • Lead the design, development, integration, verification, and validation of mixed-signal electrical systems and subsystems in surgical medical devices.
  • Define hardware architectures balancing performance, reliability, manufacturability, compliance, and cost.
  • Review and approve electrical designs, schematics, test plans, engineering changes, and qualification strategies.
  • Drive system-level troubleshooting and root cause investigations involving electrical, mechanical, software, and firmware interactions.
• Product Lifecycle & Sustaining Engineering
  • Lead electrical engineering activities for released products, including design changes, engineering change orders (ECOs), obsolescence management, supplier-driven changes, lifecycle/EOL initiatives, cost reduction, VAVE projects, and manufacturing/field quality improvements.
  • Assess impacts of component, material, and supplier changes; determine requalification requirements.
  • Support manufacturing and supplier quality teams in resolving production and field-related issues.
• Product Quality & Compliance
  • Ensure designs comply with standards and regulations, including IEC 60601-1, IEC 60601-1-2, IEC 60601-2-2, FDA Quality System Requirements, ISO 13485, and risk management requirements.
  • Lead technical assessments and investigations for customer complaints, CAPAs, nonconformances, audits, and field performance issues.
  • Evaluate complaint trends and reliability data to identify systemic quality issues and develop corrective actions.
  • Support EMC, electrical safety, environmental, reliability, and performance testing.
• Design & Development
  • Perform and oversee circuit design, schematic capture, PCB layout reviews, component selection, design analysis/simulation, system integration, and design verification testing.
  • Develop technical specifications, requirements, test protocols, and engineering documentation.
  • Ensure hardware designs meet performance, reliability, safety, and manufacturability requirements.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Partner with Systems Engineering, Software, Firmware, Mechanical, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Operations, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing Engineering teams.
  • Work with external test laboratories, suppliers, consultants, and contract manufacturers.
  • Provide technical leadership during design reviews, risk reviews, and business decision-making processes.
• Innovation & Continuous Improvement
  • Identify opportunities to improve product performance, reliability, compliance, manufacturability, and cost.
  • Drive adoption of engineering best practices, tools, and methodologies.
  • Support platform strategies, design standardization, and technology roadmaps for the Surgical Hardware portfolio.
  • Contribute to evaluating and implementing emerging technologies.
• Leadership & Talent Development
  • Mentor and coach electrical engineers and cross-functional team members.
  • Lead technical reviews and provide guidance on engineering approaches and problem-solving techniques.
  • Influence technical direction across multiple projects and product platforms.
  • Serve as a technical leader for major cross-functional initiatives and strategic engineering projects.

Requirements

• Education & Experience
  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related discipline with 10+ years of relevant experience, or
  • Master’s degree with 8+ years of relevant experience, or
  • PhD with 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Technical Experience
  • All phases of mixed-signal board design: architecture, circuit design, schematic capture, component selection, PCB layout/reviews, and design verification.
  • Strong fundamentals in analog/digital circuit design, signals/systems, frequency-domain analysis, power electronics, and system integration.
  • Experience with OrCAD schematic capture and PCB design tools.
  • Hands-on experience with laboratory equipment: oscilloscopes, multimeters, logic analyzers, spectrum/network analyzers.
  • Designing, testing, and troubleshooting high-voltage systems (up to ~5 kV).
  • Working within regulated industries, preferably medical devices.
  • Knowledge of IEC 60601 standards and medical device development processes.
  • Strong root-cause analysis and structured problem-solving skills.

Qualifications

• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills.
• Preferred:
  • Experience supporting released products in a medical device environment.
  • EMC and electrical safety testing experience.
  • Supplier qualification, supplier-driven changes, and obsolescence management.
  • VAVE and cost optimization initiatives.
  • Systems engineering practices and requirements-driven development.
  • Agile product development environments.
  • Familiarity with Surgical Hardware or electrosurgical products.
  • Lean, Six Sigma, or A3 problem-solving experience.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence technical decisions across organizations.

Differentiating Factors

• Autonomy: Recognized technical expert with broad system-level understanding; exercises independent judgment in defining technical approaches and project execution strategies.
• Organizational Impact: Influences technical direction and engineering strategy across multiple products/programs; drives process, standard, and operational improvements with significant business impact.
• Innovation & Complexity: Solves highly complex, ambiguous technical problems requiring extensive investigation and systems-level thinking; develops innovative solutions balancing technical, regulatory, quality, cost, and schedule considerations.
• Communication & Influence: Primary technical interface with stakeholders, leadership, suppliers, and partners; communicates complex concepts to diverse audiences and influences key decisions through data-driven recommendations.
• Leadership & Talent Development: Provides technical mentoring and coaching; leads project teams and oversees major engineering initiatives; promotes collaboration, accountability, innovation, and engineering excellence.