Product Safety Engineer

Philips International; New Kensington (Westmoreland County); On-site; USD 102,000 - 163,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO

401k match

HSA with company contribution

Stock purchase plan

Education reimbursement

Job summary

Philips in New Kensington, PA is seeking a Product Safety Engineer to lead safety and regulatory activities for a portfolio of respiratory care medical devices. You will interpret and apply IEC 60601 standards, guide design decisions, and collaborate across engineering, regulatory, and external partners.

You will plan and oversee safety testing and certification, support audits, and maintain laboratory processes while monitoring evolving regulations that affect current and future products.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience supporting product safety and certification activities for medical devices.
• Experience with safety testing and working with certification organizations.
• Ability to interpret IEC 60601 and ISO 80601 requirements.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Biomedical or related engineering; master’s preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead product safety and compliance activities for medical devices throughout the product lifecycle.
• Support safety testing, risk assessments, and compliance decision‑making for complex medical technologies.
• Interpret IEC 60601 standards to product designs and provide guidance to engineering teams.
• Plan, execute, and oversee product safety testing and certification for respiratory care products.
• Work with external testing and certification organizations to support timely approvals and ongoing compliance.
• Support audits, inspections, and accreditation activities while maintaining laboratory processes and documentation.
• Monitor evolving regulations and assess their impact on current and future products.
• Collaborate with engineering, quality, regulatory, manufacturing, and external partners to solve safety challenges.
• Onsite lab‑support role based in Pittsburgh with regular in‑person collaboration.

Skills

IEC 60601

Risk assessment

Regulatory compliance

Safety testing

Medical devices

Education

Electrical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

Biomedical Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Job description

Job Title

Product Safety Engineer (New Kensington, PA)

Job Description

Lead product safety and compliance efforts that help bring innovative Sleep & Respiratory Care technologies to patients around the world. Your role: Lead product safety and compliance activities for medical devices, helping ensure products meet regulatory requirements and internal quality standards throughout the product lifecycle. You will support safety testing, risk assessments, and compliance decision‑making for complex medical technologies. Serve as a product safety subject matter expert by interpreting and applying International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 60601 standards to product designs. You will partner closely with engineering teams to provide guidance, evaluate compliance requirements, and recommend design solutions. Plan, execute, and oversee product safety testing and certification activities for a portfolio of respiratory care products. This includes working with external testing and certification organizations to support timely approvals and ongoing compliance. Support audits, inspections, and accreditation activities while helping maintain and improve laboratory processes, procedures, and documentation. You will also monitor evolving regulations and standards and assess their impact on current and future products. Collaborate with engineering, quality, regulatory, manufacturing, and external partners to solve complex product safety challenges and drive continuous improvement. This is an onsite lab‑support role based in Pittsburgh, where regular in‑person collaboration is expected.

Responsibilities

• Lead product safety and compliance activities for medical devices, helping ensure products meet regulatory requirements and internal quality standards throughout the product lifecycle.
• Support safety testing, risk assessments, and compliance decision‑making for complex medical technologies.
• Serve as a product safety subject matter expert by interpreting and applying International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 60601 standards to product designs.
• Partner closely with engineering teams to provide guidance, evaluate compliance requirements, and recommend design solutions.
• Plan, execute, and oversee product safety testing and certification activities for a portfolio of respiratory care products.
• Work with external testing and certification organizations to support timely approvals and ongoing compliance.
• Support audits, inspections, and accreditation activities while maintaining and improving laboratory processes, procedures, and documentation.
• Monitor evolving regulations and standards and assess their impact on current and future products.
• Collaborate with engineering, quality, regulatory, manufacturing, and external partners to solve complex product safety challenges and drive continuous improvement.
• Work in an onsite lab‑support role based in Pittsburgh, where regular in‑person collaboration is expected.

Qualifications

• You’ve acquired 5+ years of experience supporting product safety, compliance, and certification activities for medical devices in a regulated environment.
• Experience with product safety testing and working with certification organizations is highly valued.
• Your skills include interpreting and applying medical device safety standards, including International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 60601 and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 80601 requirements.
• Bonus skills include experience with electromagnetic compatibility testing, wireless compliance requirements, respiratory medical devices, or Artificial Intelligence tools and technologies.
• You have a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Biomedical, or another Engineering discipline; a Master’s degree is preferred.
• You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position.

Professional Profile

You’re an independent and collaborative professional who communicates effectively with a variety of stakeholders and is comfortable influencing decisions related to product safety and compliance. You demonstrate initiative, ownership, and accountability while thriving in a highly technical environment.

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. This is an office role.

About Philips

We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won’t stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help improve the lives of others. Learn more about our business. Discover our rich and exciting history. Learn more about our purpose. Learn more about our culture.

Compensation

The pay range for this position in New Kensington, PA is $102,000 to $163,000. The actual base pay offered may vary within the posted ranges depending on multiple factors including job‑related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, and internal equity. In addition, other compensation, such as an annual incentive bonus, sales commission or long‑term incentives may be offered.

Benefits

Employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive Philips Total Rewards benefits program, which includes a generous PTO, 401k (up to 7% match), HSA (with company contribution), stock purchase plan, education reimbursement and much more. Details about our benefits can be found here.

Additional Information

US work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work‑authorized visa, now or in the future. Company relocation benefits will not be provided for this position. For this position, you must reside in or within commuting distance to New Kensington, PA.

Equal Opportunity

Philips is an Equal Employment and Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vets and maintains a drug‑free workplace. 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.

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