Sr Software Quality Engr

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

Job summary

Planet Pharma seeks a Senior Software Quality Engineer to ensure quality and regulatory compliance across software and system design activities for neurovascular device software. You will partner with cross‑functional teams to plan, execute, and document design controls in line with medical device standards.

The role emphasizes risk management, verification/validation, and regulatory readiness throughout the design lifecycle, with a focus on delivering safe, effective products for patients.

Qualifications

• Experience with design controls, software lifecycle, and verification/validation.
• Strong understanding of risk management and traceability across requirements, design and testing.
• Ability to collaborate with cross‑functional teams in a regulated environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide design quality support for software and software‑as‑a‑medical‑device development programs from concept through transfer to manufacturing.
• Ensure compliance with design control, software lifecycle, and risk management requirements.
• Review system and software requirements, architecture, and design documentation.
• Develop verification and validation strategies for software, system, and integration testing.
• Partner with engineering, regulatory, and quality teams to resolve design quality issues.
• Participate in design reviews and mentor junior engineers on quality practices.

Skills

Software coding experience

Software Risk Assessment

Software Verification and Validation

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Engineering

Job description

HM’s Top Needs:

1. Software coding experience (C, Java, Python etc..)
2. Software Risk Assessment
3. Software Verification and Validation
   

Education Required: Bachelor’s or Masters in Engineering degree

Years’ Experience Required: 5 + years

Job Summary

The Senior Software Quality Engineer on the Neurovascular Pre-Market Design Quality team will partner with cross-functional development teams to ensure software and system-level design activities are planned, executed, and documented in compliance with applicable quality and regulatory requirements. This role supports new product development by providing quality oversight and technical guidance throughout the design control lifecycle, with a focus on neurovascular device sizing software as a medical device system.

The ideal candidate combines strong systems engineering and software development knowledge with experience in design controls, risk management, verification and validation, and regulatory expectations for medical device development.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Provide design quality support for software and software-as a medical device development programs from concept through transfer to manufacturing.

• Ensure compliance with applicable design control, software lifecycle, and risk management requirements.

• Review and contribute to system requirements, software requirements, architecture, and design documentation.

• Support development of verification and validation strategies for software,system, and integration testing.

• Partner with engineering, product development, regulatory, clinical, and quality teams to resolve design quality issues.

• Evaluate software development deliverables for completeness, traceability, and regulatory readiness.

• Support risk management activities, including hazard analysis, software-related risk evaluation, and mitigation verification.

• Participate in design reviews and provide constructive feedback to improve product quality, safety, and compliance.

• Assistin root cause analysis and corrective action activities related to design or software quality issues.

• Mentor less experienced engineers on design quality practices, documentation expectations, and compliance requirements.

• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives fordesignquality processes, tools, and templates.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field and minimum of 4 years of relevant experience OR Master’s degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience OR PhD with 0 years relevant experience.

• Demonstrated experience with design controls, softwaredevelopmentlifecycle activities, and verification/validation.

• Strong understanding of risk management principles, design failure analysis concepts, and traceability across requirements, design, and testing.

• Experience supporting cross-functional product development teams.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5 to 8+ years of experience in software engineering, systems engineering, design assurance, reliability, or quality engineering in a regulated industry.

• Experience in the medical device industry or another highly regulated environment.

• Knowledge of IEC 62304, ISO 14971, ISO 13485, FDA design control expectations, and related standards.

• Familiarity with agile development environments and how quality practices integrate into iterative development.

• Experience with AI used in process development and embedded in products.

• Experience with software architecture reviews, cybersecurity considerations, or usability/human factors support.

• Advanced degree in engineering ora relateddiscipline.

Core Competencies

• Technical depth in software and systems engineering

• Quality mindset and attention to detail

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Cross-functional collaboration

• Sound judgment and decision-making

• Effective communication and documentation skills

• Ability to coach and influence without direct authority

This position plays a critical role in delivering safe, effective, compliant, and high-quality products for our patients and customers by ensuring software and system design activities meethigh standardsfor quality throughout the development lifecycle