Senior Systems Engineer — Medical Device Integration

Planet Pharma; Burlington (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Planet Pharma is seeking a Senior System Engineer to join our R&D team. The role is hands-on and execution-focused, supporting system development, integration, verification, and sustaining activities for complex electromechanical medical devices.

You will work closely with hardware, software, firmware, mechanical, quality, and regulatory teams to ensure system requirements are implemented, integrated, and verified, with a strong emphasis on cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in electrical engineering or related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 5+ years in system engineering within the medical device industry.
• Experience architecting, integrating and verifying complex electrod mechanical devices.
• Hands-on experience with system integration, testing and troubleshooting.
• Experience with Helix or Jama for requirements management.
• Knowledge of regulatory standards such as 60601-1, 60601-2, 60601-1-6.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and communication skills.
• Detail-oriented with strong analytical/problem-solving abilities.

Responsibilities

• Design and manage system requirements, allocation and traceability.
• Assist with system architecture definition and interface management.
• Maintain system documentation and design artifacts.
• Develop and maintain test fixtures for boards and subsystems.
• Support system integration, verification and validation activities.
• Coordinate ECOs and lifecycle updates using Oracle and Veeva.
• Collaborate with hardware, software, firmware, mechanical, quality and regulatory teams.
• Support risk management activities including FMEA updates.

Skills

System engineering

Requirements management

V&V

Test and debugging

Problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Helix

Jama

Oracle

Veeva

Job description

Planet Pharma is seeking a Senior System Engineer to join our R&D team. The role is hands-on and execution-focused, supporting system development, integration, verification, and sustaining activities for complex electromechanical medical devices.

You will work closely with hardware, software, firmware, mechanical, quality, and regulatory teams to ensure system requirements are implemented, integrated, and verified, with a strong emphasis on cross-functional collaboration.