Senior NPI Systems Engineer — Cancer-Treatment Tech

Siemens Healthineers AG

Palo Alto (CA)

Hybrid

USD 139,000 - 191,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Life insurance

Long-term and short-term disability

Paid parking/public transportation

Paid time off

Paid sick and safe time

Job summary

Siemens Healthineers in California is seeking a Senior New Product Introduction Systems Engineer to lead manufacturing and supply chain readiness for advanced radiation oncology delivery platforms. You will translate product intent into scalable manufacturing solutions across global teams, influencing architecture, quality, cost, and lifecycle decisions.

The role requires a strong background in NPI and systems engineering, with demonstrated ability to drive trade-offs and governance from

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline.
8+ years of experience in New Product Introduction (NPI), Manufacturing Engineering, Industrialization, Systems Engineering, or related technical leadership roles.
Strong system-level understanding of product architecture, manufacturing processes, validation, product configuration, and Supply Chain interactions.
Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical work across global, cross‑functional teams and influence decisions without direct authority.
Proven application of Design for Excellence, structured problem‑solving, risk management, and evidence-based decision‑making.
Ability to communicate complex issues clearly, frame credible trade‑offs, and align technical and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Own manufacturing and Supply Chain intent for assigned treatment-delivery products, platforms, or ecosystems across the product lifecycle.
Translate complex product requirements into clear system-level manufacturability, scalability, quality, cost, capacity, and supply-readiness requirements.
Drive Design for Excellence with R&D, influencing architecture and design decisions to improve manufacturability, testability, serviceability, reliability, and lifecycle cost.
Lead technical trade-off decisions across product performance, patient safety, quality, cost, schedule, supply risk, and long‑term scalability.
Orchestrate industrialization execution across Manufacturing Engineering, sites, and suppliers, aligning processes, tooling, validation, product configuration, and production solutions to system-level intent.
Establish objective readiness governance for prototype, pilot, validation, transfer, and production ramp, ensuring decisions are supported by credible evidence.
Identify and resolve systemic risk across design, manufacturing, suppliers, materials, capacity, configuration, and cross‑site deployment before it affects launch.
Build alignment without relying on authority, bringing clarity to ambiguity and influencing stakeholders across global functions and leadership levels.
Advance engineering capability through reusable standards, lessons learned, data, and responsible use of AI‑assisted tools to improve decision quality and execution.