Design Quality Engineer

Creative Solutions Services, LLC; Lafayette (LA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Philips is seeking a Design Quality Engineer to ensure product designs meet regulatory, quality, and customer requirements. The role collaborates with R&D, regulatory, manufacturing, and suppliers to embed quality into design and transfer to manufacturing.

Responsibilities include design planning, design reviews, verification/validation, and maintenance of design documentation, DHF/DMR/DHR, and risk controls throughout the lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a medical sciences, healthcare management, industrial engineering, supply chain, or equivalent.
• Knowledge of medical device regulations and standards (e.g., 21 CFR Part 820, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, EU MDR).
• Experience in FDA-regulated medical devices with focus on design assurance and risk.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with Design Control requirements throughout product lifecycle (21 CFR Part 820 / ISO 13485).
• Participate in design planning, reviews, verification and validation activities, and ensure action-item closure.
• Review and approve design inputs/outputs and critical documentation; support DHF/DMR/DHR maintenance.
• Guide risk management activities; facilitate FMEA and hazard analysis; implement risk controls.

Skills

Regulatory knowledge

Design Quality engineering

Risk management

FMEA

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Medical Sciences or related

Job description

Job Description:

The Design Quality Engineer (DQE) at Philips is responsible for ensuring that products are designed and developed in compliance with regulatory standards, quality requirements, and customer expectations. This role works closely with R&D, regulatory, manufacturing, and suppliers to embed quality into product design.

Responsibilities:

Design Control:

• Ensure compliance with Design Control requirements (21 CFR Part 820 / ISO 13485) throughout product lifecycle.


• Participate in design planning, design reviews, and design verification/validation activities. (cross-functional design reviews, ensuring closure of action items).


• Review and approve design inputs, outputs, and technical documentation.


• Support traceability matrix (DHF, DMR, DHR) creation and maintenance.


• Ensure Design Verification & Validation (V&V) activities meet requirements.


• Review and approve, Engineering Change requests/Orders (ECR/ECOs).


• Ensure design changes follow proper change control processes.


• Builds and nurtures effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders, providing expert guidance and mentorship to cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment with quality standards and successful project milestones.


• Validates critical design inputs such as usability, reliability, performance, manufacturability, and safety, ensuring alignment with both quality standards and regulatory requirements.


• Design transfer to manufacturing, ensuring process readiness.

Risk Management Support:

• Guide comprehensive risk management activities throughout the product lifecycle to ensure risks are identified and mitigated.


• Facilitate FMEA (Design and Process) and hazard analysis.


• Ensure risk controls are implemented, verified, and documented.

QMS Support (Audit, CAPA):

• Ensure preparation for quality audits and inspections, maintaining documentation to demonstrate compliance.


• Record, manage, and execute CAPA processes including root cause analysis and implementation of solutions.


• Contributes to the development, implementation, and revision of QMS processes.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Medical Sciences, Healthcare Management, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain Management or equivalent.


• Knowledge of medical device regulations, requirements, and standards, such as 21 CFR Parts 820, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, European Medical Device Directive (93/42/EEC), EU Medical Device Regulation (EU MDR), Canadian Medical Devices Regulation (SOR/98-282), etc


• Change Management (Including design and Manufacturing transfer).


• Minimum of 5+ years' experience in FDA regulated medical device environments, with a focus on Design Assurance/Control, detailed knowledge of Risk.


• You have detailed experience in identifying, promoting, and supporting processes and design quality tools for use in tracking/preventing product defects, design traceability, and Design for Reliability.