Sr. Systems Engineer

About the role

Our in-home Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) systems are used around the world to support patients experiencing life-threatening chronic kidney failure. Patients rely on our devices to deliver long-term, home-based management of End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) thereby maintaining critical kidney function while awaiting a kidney transplant. As such, Vantive is building new platforms, devices, and connected systems to make home dialysis more efficient, consistent, and intuitive for our patients. Vantive is seeking a Senior System Engineer to support the overall technical direction of our chronic therapy products. Based on your technical skills, you will drive various portions of the product development cycle at stages ranging from feasibility through lifecycle management.

Responsibilities

• Perform the activities associated with the systems engineering of one or more products in various stages of the product lifecycle from new product development to post-market surveillance
• Understand clinical and user needs and apply them to product realization
• Capture inputs for requirements from various sources such as user needs, regulatory standards, human factors, quality, manufacturing, service, etc.
• Use knowledge of technology, process, and/or therapy domains to drive solutions and product design realization from a systems perspective
• Craft design concepts and research methodologies that best meet current and future customer / business needs for a product or process domain area
• Create and maintain design history file elements
• Facilitate an improved understanding of the interrelationship between requirements, risk and reliability
• Anticipate technical challenges and risk scenarios and prepare, lead, and execute mitigation strategies to ensure optimal results
• Resolve systems-related technical issues by applying problem-solving tools such as cause-and-effect diagrams, Pareto charts, etc.
• Propose and drive solutions to technical problems that are ambiguous and diverse in scope
• Perform impact assessments on the requirements as needed with support from key stakeholders
• Collaborate with stakeholders and cross-functional team members within the project
• Use various software tools and programs to complete the above responsibilities

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 3+ years or more of relevant experience, or Master’s degree and 2+ years or more of relevant experience, with a degree in Electrical, Software