Sr. Manager Engineering

Siemens Healthineers AG; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 169,000 - 233,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off

Paid parking/public transportation

Job summary

Siemens Healthineers AG in Austin, TX seeks a Senior Manager for the R&D Engineering team to lead a new product development group focused on test engineering, verification, and validation.

You will build and develop a high-performing team, shape V&V strategies, and ensure products meet technical, quality, and customer requirements across electromechanical systems. Strong leadership and cross-disciplinary collaboration are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant engineering discipline.
• 5+ years leading multidisciplinary teams across electrical, software, mechanical, and test activities.
• Extensive experience with verification and validation processes and test methods.

Responsibilities

• Lead a verification and validation engineering team supporting new product development.
• Establish priorities, responsibilities, performance expectations, and development plans.
• Build a positive, collaborative culture with accountability and technical rigor.
• Address skill or capacity gaps through development, recruiting, and contract resources.
• Plan and balance resources across multiple development programs.

Skills

Team leadership

Verifications & Validation

Electronics expertise

Systems engineering

Root-cause analysis

Technical judgment

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer/Systems/Mechanical Engineering

Tools

Test equipment

Data acquisition systems

Electrical measurement instrumentation

Job description

Join us in pioneering breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.

Our inspiring and caring environment forms a global community that celebrates diversity and individuality. We encourage you to step beyond your comfort zone, offering resources and flexibility to foster your professional and personal growth, all while valuing your unique contributions.

Position Summary

We are seeking a highly technical and people-focused Senior Manager for R&D Engineering team. You will lead a new product development engineering team with initial focus on test engineering. This leader will build and develop a high-performing team, establish effective verification and validation strategies, and ensure products meet technical, performance, quality, and customer requirements.

Although verification and validation will be the team’s initial responsibility, the role is not limited to V&V. The Senior Manager and the team will also support product development activities, including requirements development, prototyping, design reviews, technical risk reduction, root-cause analysis, and early-stage testing.

The ideal candidate has significant experience managing engineering teams and strong technical knowledge of electronics and electrical systems. The candidate should also understand software concepts, mechanical mechanisms, and the interaction of these disciplines within complex electromechanical products. This individual must demonstrate strong critical thinking, sound technical judgment, effective talent development, and a commitment to maintaining a positive, motivated, and accountable team culture.

Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership and Development

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of verification and validation engineers supporting new product development.
• Establish clear priorities, responsibilities, performance expectations, and professional development plans.
• Build a positive and collaborative culture that promotes accountability, technical rigor, continuous learning, and constructive problem-solving.
• Assess team capabilities and address skill or capacity gaps through employee development, recruiting, and contract resources.
• Work with Project Management and other leaders to plan and balance resources across multiple development programs.

Product Development and Technical Leadership

• Contribute to the full product development cycle. Activities involving requirements definition, system architecture, prototyping, design reviews, risk assessments, and technical investigations.
• Provide hands on technical leadership in electronics, system integration, and electromechanical product development.
• Develop, execute and refine V&V strategies that result in world class products.
• Develop, write and refine test plans, methods, protocols, and reports such that they are technically sound, repeatable, traceable, and properly documented.
• Execute and mentor the team for activities such as system testing and characterization of complex electromechanical systems that include electronics, embedded software, sensors, actuators, data acquisition, controls, and mechanical mechanisms.
• Analyze test data and system failures using strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills, then collaborate with multidisciplinary development teams to improve product performance, reliability, safety, and testability.

Verification, Validation, and Continuous Improvement

• Provide leadership for the selection, development, and use of test equipment, instrumentation, data-acquisition systems, automated test systems, and test fixtures.
• Improve test coverage, efficiency, data quality, requirements traceability, defect detection, and failure analysis.
• Ensure verification and validation risks, failures, and corrective actions are clearly communicated and resolved.
• Advance lean product development and testing practices that reduce rework, delays, unnecessary complexity, and low-value activities.
• Promote early learning through rapid prototyping, focused experiments, automated testing, and risk-based verification planning.

Additional Responsibilities

• Is responsible for all products and solutions development activities in the assigned part of the R&D organization.
• Manages organization unit assigned, and leads, motivates and develops dedicated employees.
• Implements guidelines and defines functional specific policies, processes or methods to fulfill the superior business strategy.
• Plans and allocates resources and budgets to relevant projects or activities.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• (5 yrs minimum) Experience leading multidisciplinary teams supporting electrical, software, mechanical, systems, and test activities.
• Significant engineering experience in new product development, verification, validation, and/or test engineering.
• Extensive experience with verification and validation processes, test methods, instrumentation, data-acquisition equipment, fixtures, and automated test systems.
• (Desired) Strong technical knowledge of electronics, embedded electronics, sensors, controls, communications, motors, actuators, or other electromechanical systems.
• Experience with requirements management, design controls, configuration management, risk management, and product lifecycle processes.
• Knowledge of root-cause analysis and risk-management methods, including 5 Whys, fault-tree analysis, design of experiments, or failure mode and effects analysis.
• (Desired) Experience working in a regulated, safety-critical, industrial, or high-reliability product environment.
• Demonstrated success building a positive, motivated, collaborative, and accountable engineering culture.
• Strong critical-thinking, decision-making, and structured problem-solving skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex technical issues to technical and nontechnical audiences.

What will set you apart:

• Experience with software-hardware integration of electromechanical systems.
• Experience with medical device product development.

Who we are

We are a team of more than 72,000 highly dedicated Healthineers in more than 70 countries. As a leader in medical technology, we constantly push the boundaries to create better outcomes and experiences for patients, no matter where they live or what health issues they are facing. Our portfolio is crucial for clinical decision-making and treatment pathways.

How we work:

When you join Siemens Healthineers, you become one in a global team of scientists, clinicians, developers, researchers, professionals, and skilled specialists, who believe in each individual’s potential to contribute with diverse ideas. We are from different backgrounds, cultures, religions, political and/or sexual orientations, and work together, to fight the world’s most threatening diseases and enable access to care, united by one purpose: to pioneer breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.

The base pay range for this position is:

$169,220 - $232,683

Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

If this is a commission eligible position the commission eligibility will be in accordance with the terms of the Company's plan. Commissions are based on individual performance and/or company performance.

The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan. life insurance, long-term and short-term disability insurance, paid parking/public transportation, paid time off, paid sick and safe time.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:

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