Design Quality Engineer

Fives DyAG Corp.; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Philips is hiring a Design Quality Engineer to ensure products are designed and developed compliant with regulatory standards, quality requirements, and customer expectations. This role collaborates with R&D, regulatory, manufacturing, and suppliers to embed quality into product design.

Responsibilities include leading design controls, design reviews, and risk management across the product lifecycle, with emphasis on V&V, traceability, and change control to meet regulatory needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in medical sciences, healthcare management, industrial engineering, supply chain management or equivalent.
• Knowledge of medical device regulations, requirements, and standards (21 CFR Part 820, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, EU MDR/EC directives).
• Change Management (design and manufacturing transfer).
• Minimum of 5+ years in FDA-regulated medical device environments focusing on design assurance/control and risk.
• Experience using design quality tools for tracking defects, design traceability, and reliability-focused design.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with Design Control throughout the product lifecycle.
• Participate in design planning, design reviews, and design verification/validation activities.
• Review and approve design inputs, outputs, and technical documentation.
• Support traceability matrix (DHF, DMR, DHR) creation and maintenance.
• Ensure Design Verification & Validation activities meet requirements.
• Review and approve Engineering Change requests/orders and ensure proper change control.

Skills

Design Control

Risk Management

Change Management

Quality Assurance

Regulatory Knowledge

Cross-functional Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

FMEA

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:

• 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.