Manager, Verification & Validation

Cochlear Malaysia Sdn Bhd; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 250,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

Cochlear Malaysia Sdn Bhd in Kuala Lumpur seeks a Manager, Verification & Validation and Product Lifecycle Engineering to lead embedded software teams and oversee V&V and lifecycle activities aligned with global release priorities.

You will champion verification thinking, grow local capability, and collaborate with stakeholders across Verification & Validation, Systems Engineering, Quality, and R&D to deliver high-quality hearing solutions.

Qualifications

• Degree in Engineering with embedded software exposure.
• Experience leading technical teams.
• Strong verification and validation experience in regulated environments.
• Ability to align local and global strategies across V&V and lifecycle engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead and govern V&V and lifecycle engineering delivery across products to ensure quality releases.
• Set expectations for V&V quality, coverage and evidence completeness.
• Build partnerships with local and global stakeholders to align strategies and roadmaps.

Skills

People leadership

V&V principles

Embedded software

Stakeholder management

Education

Engineering degree (Electrical/Electronics)

Job description

The Opportunity

Based in Kuala Lumpur, the Manager, Verification & Validation and Product Lifecycle Engineering plays a critical leadership role within Cochlear's Sound Processors product vertical.

You will lead teams responsible for embedded software, product and system V&V, and lifecycle engineering, ensuring V&V and lifecycle engineering activities are efficient, effective, compliant, and tightly aligned to global release priorities.

This role works in close partnership with local and global stakeholders across Verification & Validation, Systems Engineering, Embedded Software, Quality, Project Management and R&D. You will champion verification and lifecycle engineering thinking, grow local technical capability, and contribute to the continuous improvement of Cochlear's global V&V and lifecycle engineering disciplines.

People Leadership & Capability Building

• Lead, mentor and manage V&V team leaders and product lifecycle engineers within the product vertical.


• Build a high‑performing, inclusive and feedback‑rich team culture using Cochlear people practices.


• Coach and develop team members through clear technical and leadership career pathways.


• Drive recruitment, onboarding and succession planning to build future capability.


• Advocate for team needs, ensuring access to the tools, resources and support required for success.


• Manage team engagement, communication and conflict effectively.

Verification, Validation & Lifecycle Engineering Delivery

• Lead and govern V&V and lifecycle engineering delivery to enable high‑quality, releases within quality management system.


• Set clear expectations for V&V quality, coverage, traceability and evidence completeness.


• Provide escalation leadership for complex V&V or lifecycle engineering challenges, ensuring timely resolution.


• Ensure consistent application of platform and variant V&V strategies, balancing reuse, efficiency and coverage.

Global Stakeholder Partnership & Alignment

• Build strong, trusted partnerships with local and global stakeholders across V&V, Systems Engineering, Quality, R&D and Project Management.


• Act as the primary interface for V&V and lifecycle engineering in KL within the sound processor systems department.


• Provide transparent communication on delivery status, risks, capacity and dependencies.


• Align local deliverables, mechanisms of operation, and long‑term vision and strategies for teams in KL with global V&V strategies, processes and standards while contributing local insights.


• Represent KL in global planning, prioritisation and continuous improvement forums.

About You

As we grow our operations, we are looking for people who share our passion delivering safe, effective, and high‑quality hearing solutions. To add value to Cochlear in this role, you'll be able to demonstrate the following skills and experience:

• Degree in Engineering (Electrical or Electronics preferred), with embedded software exposure.


• Experience in systems, product, electrical, electronics, firmware design, development or testing within R&D environments.


• Proven people leadership experience, including leading senior technical teams.


• Strong understanding of verification and validation principles, methods and tools.


• Experience operating in regulated, quality‑driven.


• Experience operating in cross‑functional, matrixed and global environments.


• Clear and effective written and verbal communication skill.

What Would Make You Stand Out

• Experience working in medical devices or other highly regulated industries, combined with exposure to Product Lifecycle Engineering and platform or variant‑based V&V strategies.


• Experience working in design, development or testing using product family engineering methodology.


• Demonstrated experience with successfully developing and shaping a high‑performing technical team under uncertainty, change and challenge.


• Role model and cultural champion in line with Cochlear's mission and HEAR behaviours.

Why this role is for you?

This role offers the opportunity to influence product quality and patient outcomes at scale. You'll lead teams, shape V&V strategy, and work globally to ensure Cochlear's sound processors meet the highest standards of safety, quality and performance - while continuing to grow your leadership and technical impact.

How we recognise your contribution

We want Cochlear to be a place where our people enjoy coming to work. Through our internal programs and employee benefits we aim to create an environment where our people will feel valued and supported. Whether your focus is on continuous learning, professional development or simply finding an environment which enables you to thrive whilst balancing family or personal life commitments, then we have several programs in place to support you.

Cochlear is an organisation you can be proud to be part of. Underpinning our position as a global market leader is the quality of our people. You will get to work with talented, friendly and supportive colleagues who are dedicated towards making a difference. We are an expanding workforce that has grown from only 500 in 2004 to more than 2,700 today. We have built our business to support over 200,000 recipients globally with direct operation in 20 countries and distribution in 100 countries. Leveraging of our scale and global reach, we pursue a breadth of research and development activities that will bring the most significant technologies, products and services to market for our recipients. Currently we are involved in over 79 collaborative research programs, involving 131 centers across 19 countries.

For 30 years Cochlear has been the global leader in implantable hearing solutions. Our commitment to shaping the future of our industry means we work hard to achieve long‑term sustainable financial growth. Every year we make significant investments in research and development, so we continually improve our products and stay at the leading edge of technological advancements. Testaments to our effective R&D undertakings are more than 100 registered patent families and multiple industry awards. Today, our products set new benchmarks in hearing performance with the most reliable implants on the market. As we continue to launch new products and revolutionise the industry, you will experience a new era of growth, change and opportunity right across the business. Now is truly an exciting and challenging time to join our transforming and growing business.