Senior Systems Engineer

ManpowerGroup; Plymouth (MN); On-site; USD 69,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and Prescription Drug Plans

Dental Plan

Vision Plan

Health Savings Account

Health Flexible Spending Account

Dependent Care Flexible Spending Array

Supplemental Life Insurance

Short Term and Long Term Disability

Business Travel Insurance

401(k), Plus Match

Weekly Pay

Job summary

ManpowerGroup’s Acute Therapies V&V team seeks a Senior Systems Verification and Validation Engineer to translate requirements into measurable evidence, guiding test strategy and documentation for complex medical devices. This role emphasizes statistics, DOE-based testing, and cross-functional communication to deliver defensible evidence of performance.

The incumbent will define system-, integration-, and hardware-level test plans, develop verification protocols, and ensure traceability and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering field with 4+ years of relevant experience, or an advanced degree in an engineering field with a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience.
• Hands-on experience planning, developing, executing, and documenting verification or validation tests for complex products, with the ability to connect requirements and risks to objective evidence.
• Working knowledge of applied statistics and experimental design, including the ability to justify sampling approaches and explain what test data does and does not establish.
• Experience with complex, electro‑mechanical, software‑controlled systems, particularly medical devices developed under a quality system.
• Experience using requirements and test-management systems such as DOORS, OpenText ALM, Jama Connect, Polarion, or Codebeamer to create, review, and trace product development content.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute test strategies for system-level, integration, and hardware-level testing, supporting an end-to-end verification approach that demonstrates requirements are met.
• Develop and maintain V&V documentation, including verification plans, verification protocols and reports, test method validations, traceability matrices, and risk assessments.
• Use experimental design and statistical reasoning to select appropriate tests, interpret performance results, and support engineering decisions with clear, defensible evidence.
• Establish alternative verification approaches (e.g., inspection, verification via trace, design review, analysis, simulation, and/or automated testing) to reduce manual effort while maintaining regulatory and quality compliance.
• Investigate unexpected results using structured problem-solving, drive defects through resolution and verification, and communicate findings and recommendations to cross-functional teams.

Skills

Test planning

Statistics

Electro-mechanical systems

Medical devices

Requirements management

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Advanced engineering degree

Tools

DOORS

OpenText ALM

Jama Connect

Polarion

CodeBeamer

Job description

Sr. Systems Verification and Validation Engineer - Acute Therapies — if you’re motivated by turning requirements into measurable evidence and helping ensure products perform as intended, this role is for you. As a Senior Systems Verification and Validation Engineer on the Acute Therapies V&V team, you’ll help demonstrate that our products meet the needs of clinicians and patients through rigorous, efficient verification and validation. You’ll bring systems thinking, statistical reasoning, and practical test strategy development to clarify ambiguities and translate them into test plans others can follow.

Job Title: Senior Systems Engineer

Location: Plymouth, MN - Onsite Role

Pay Range: $50 to $60 on W2

What's the Job?

• Define and execute test strategies for system-level, integration, and hardware-level testing, supporting an end-to-end verification approach that demonstrates requirements are met.

• Develop and maintain V&V documentation, including verification plans, verification protocols and reports, test method validations, traceability matrices, and risk assessments.

• Use experimental design and statistical reasoning to select appropriate tests, interpret performance results, and support engineering decisions with clear, defensible evidence.

• Establish alternative verification approaches (e.g., inspection, verification via trace, design review, analysis, simulation, and/or automated testing) to reduce manual effort while maintaining regulatory and quality compliance.

• Investigate unexpected results using structured problem-solving, drive defects through resolution and verification, and communicate findings and recommendations to cross-functional teams.

What's Needed?

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent degree earned outside of the United States) in an engineering field with a minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, or an advanced degree in an engineering field with a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience.

• Hands‑on experience planning, developing, executing, and documenting verification or validation tests for complex products, with the ability to connect requirements and risks to objective evidence.

• Working knowledge of applied statistics and experimental design, including the ability to justify sampling approaches and explain what test data does and does not establish.

• Experience with complex, electro‑mechanical, software‑controlled systems, particularly medical devices developed under a quality system.

• Experience using requirements and test‑management systems such as DOORS, OpenText ALM, Jama Connect, Polarion, or Codebeamer to create, review, and trace product development content.

What's in it for me?

• Opportunity to deliver verified and validated product evidence that supports clinicians and patients who depend on reliable performance.

• Chance to improve test methods and strengthen test planning and execution through continuous improvement initiatives.

• Ability to apply statistical tools (e.g., DOE, ANOVA, capability analysis) to focus testing where it adds the most value.

• Ownership of defensible documentation and traceability that helps teams make informed engineering decisions.

• Collaborative environment where you can communicate findings clearly, unblock work, and maintain V&V rigor even under challenging schedules.

Upon completion of waiting period consultants are eligible for:

• Medical and Prescription Drug Plans

• Dental Plan

• Vision Plan

• Health Savings Account

• Health Flexible Spending Account

• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account

• Supplemental Life Insurance

• Short Term and Long Term Disability Insurance

• Business Travel Insurance

• 401(k), Plus Match

• Weekly Pay

About ManpowerGroup, Parent Company of: Manpower, Experis, Talent Solutions, and Jefferson Wells.

ManpowerGroup® (NYSE: MAN), the leading global workforce solutions company, helps organizations transform in a fast‑changing world of work by sourcing, assessing, developing, and managing the talent that enables them to win. We develop innovative solutions for hundreds of thousands of organizations every year, providing them with skilled talent while finding meaningful, sustainable employment for millions of people across a wide range of industries and skills. Our expert family of brands – Manpower, Experis, Talent Solutions, and Jefferson Wells – creates substantial value for candidates and clients across more than 75 countries and territories and has done so for over 70 years. We are recognized consistently for our diversity - as a best place to work for Women, Inclusion, Equality and Disability and in 2023 ManpowerGroup was named one of the World's Most Ethical Companies for the 14th year - all confirming our position as the brand of choice for in-demand talent.

ManpowerGroup is committed to providing equal employment opportunities in a professional, high quality work environment. It is the policy of ManpowerGroup and all of its subsidiaries to recruit, train, promote, transfer, pay and take all employment actions without regard to an employee's race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.