Senior System Designer – Sensing Lab

Philips International; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Philips seeks a Senior System Designer – Sensing Lab to own the system design for an integrated sensing, AI, and data analytics environment in image-guided therapy.

You will translate clinical and business requirements into a scalable architecture across hardware, software, cloud, and data pipelines, ensuring regulatory compliance and real-time clinical workflow support.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related field and strong systems engineering background.
• Experience in medical device or health-tech domains preferred.
• Proven ability to define architecture, requirements, and interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the system-level architecture and design across hardware, software, cloud, and data pipelines.
• Decompose top-level requirements into subsystem specifications with traceability.
• Collaborate with AI Analytics, Data Analytics, and Infrastructure teams to ensure coherence.
• Lead architecture review boards and document trade-offs.
• Define and manage interfaces between sensing hardware, software, cloud, and dashboards.
• Address performance, reliability, safety, cybersecurity, and regulatory compliance.
• Partner with Quality and Regulatory to meet IEC 62304 and ISO 13485.
• Support verification and validation planning and system-level tests.
• Engage clinicians to validate designs against real-world workflows.
• Mentor engineers on systems thinking and architecture best practices.

Skills

Systems thinking

Cloud architectures

Stakeholder communication

Regulatory awareness

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Systems Engineering or related field

PhD is a plus

Tools

SysML

UML

Cameo

Rhapsody

Job description

Job Title Senior System Designer – Sensing Lab

In this role, you will have the opportunity to join the leading innovator in image-guided therapy solutions as System Engineer for Azurion Eye – Sensing Lab proposition. You will be responsible for defining and owning the system design for an integrated sensing, AI, and data analytics environment. You will translate clinical and business requirements into a coherent, scalable, and standards-compliant system design, spanning hardware interfaces, software subsystems, cloud connectivity, and data pipelines. You will act as system-level technical authority, responsible for defining, owning, and evolving the end-to-end system architecture, behavior, and design across software, AI, data, and platform components that enable real-time clinical workflow automation in a regulated medical environment. You will be part of the Image Guided Therapy Systems (IGTS) business unit with development sites in the Netherlands, China and India. You will join the global R&D department working closely with cross-functional product development teams.

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Define and own the system-level architecture & design including hardware interfaces, AI subsystems, data pipelines, and cloud integration.
• Decompose top-level system requirements into subsystem and component-level specifications; maintain traceability from requirements to design and verification.
• Collaborate with AI Analytics, Data Analytics, and Infrastructure teams to ensure all subsystems integrate into a coherent and scalable platform.
• Lead architecture review boards; evaluate design alternatives and document trade-off analyses.
• Define and manage system interfaces between sensing hardware, embedded software, cloud services, and clinical dashboards.
• Identify and address non-functional requirements: performance, reliability, safety, cybersecurity, interoperability (DICOM, HL7), and regulatory compliance.
• Partner with Quality and Regulatory to ensure the system design adheres to IEC 62304, ISO 13485, and applicable medical device standards.
• Support verification and validation planning; define system-level test strategies and acceptance criteria.
• Engage clinical stakeholders to validate system design against real-world lab workflows and usability needs.
• Mentor engineers across teams on systems thinking, requirements engineering, and architecture best practices.

To Succeed in This Role, You Should Have the Following Skills and Experience

• Bachelor's or Master's degree (or PhD) in Systems Engineering, Electronics, Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, or a related field.
• 10–15 years of experience in systems engineering for complex hardware/software products; experience in medical devices or health-tech strongly preferred.
• Proven expertise in system architecture definition, requirements engineering (e.g., SysML, UML), and interface management.
• Experience with medical device standards and regulatory frameworks (IEC 62304, ISO 13485, FDA 21 CFR Part 820).
• Familiarity with sensing technologies, camera/imaging systems, or clinical lab environments is a strong advantage.
• Knowledge of cloud architectures (AWS/Azure), microservices, and data pipeline design.
• Experience with DICOM, HL7, or other healthcare interoperability standards is advantageous.
• Strong systems thinking: ability to reason across hardware, software, data, and clinical workflow layers simultaneously.
• Experience with model-based systems engineering (MBSE) tools (e.g., Cameo, Rhapsody) is an advantage.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to present complex architectures clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proficiency in leveraging AI-assisted development tools to accelerate design, documentation, and analysis.

How we work together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

About Philips

Are you ready to do the work of your life to help the lives of others? Learn more about our business, discover our rich and exciting history and learn more about our purpose. Learn more about our culture of impact with care. #LI-Philin At Philips, we believe that every human matters. As a global health-tech leader, we focus on improving people’s health and wellbeing through meaningful innovation. The people who work here share our passion and are motivated to bring this purpose to life. For more than 130 years, we have been creating technologies and innovations that improve people’s lives and support healthcare practitioners. Headquartered in the Netherlands and operating in more than 100 countries globally, we focus our advanced technology and deep clinical and consumer insights on Precision Diagnosis, Image Guided Therapy, Enterprise Informatics, Monitoring/ Connected Care, Sleep & Respiratory Care and Personal Health. Together, we deliver better care for more people because we believe that every human matters. That's why we're taking steps to create an environment where we acknowledge and embrace our differences and uniqueness and listen to and value each other’s views. When people feel cared for and listened to, they bring their best qualities to work, leading to better collaboration, communication, innovation and success. It is the policy of Philips to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy/childbirth or related medical conditions, age, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability, genetic information, citizenship status, veteran or military status, marital or domestic partner status or any other characteristic protected by law. As an equal opportunity employer, Philips is committed to fostering a culture where all are treated with respect and professionalism. To ensure reasonable accommodations for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Veterans' Readjustment Act of 1974 and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, applicants that require accommodation in the job application process may contact 888-367-7223, option 5, for assistance. Philips is an Equal Employment and Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vets and maintains a drug-free workplace. Know Your Rights