Staff Design Quality Engineer

El Camino Health; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 154,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company dedicated to advancing cardiac care. As a Staff Design Quality Engineer, you'll play a crucial role in ensuring product quality and compliance in a fast-paced environment. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and leverage your expertise in embedded systems and risk management to make a meaningful impact on patients' lives. This role offers a unique opportunity to grow your career while contributing to innovative healthcare solutions that shape the future of cardiac health. Embrace the chance to work with cutting-edge technology and be part of a mission-driven organization.

Benefits

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) with Company Match

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Paid Parental Leave

Unlimited LinkedIn Learning

Travel Assistance for Personal Trips

Health Savings Account Contributions

PTO

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Quality Assurance for medical devices.
• Experience with IEC standards and regulatory requirements.
• Competency in risk-based design verification.

Responsibilities

• Support product development teams in quality assurance.
• Contribute to design controls and risk management.
• Perform risk assessments for product verification.

Skills

Quality Assurance

Risk Management

Design Control

Embedded Systems

Electromechanical Devices

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Tools

Jira

Master Control

JAMA

Job description

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Staff Design Quality Engineer

Apply locations San Francisco, CA time type Full time posted on Posted 4 Days Ago job requisition id 132

Career-defining. Life-changing.

At iRhythm, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your skills and your career while impacting the lives of people around the world. iRhythm is shaping a future where everyone, everywhere can access the best possible cardiac health solutions. Every day, we collaborate, create, and constantly reimagine what’s possible. We think big and move fast, driven by our commitment to put patients first and improve lives. We need builders like you. Curious and innovative problem solvers looking for the chance to meaningfully shape the future of cardiac health, our company, and your career

About This Role:

"Boldly innovating to create trusted solutions that detect, predict, and prevent disease." Discover your power to innovate while making a difference in patients' lives. iRhythm is advancing cardiac care…Join Us Now!

At iRhythm, we are dedicated, self-motivated, and driven to do the right thing for our patients, clinicians, and coworkers. Our leadership is focused and committed to iRhythm’s employees and the mission of the company. We are better together, embrace change and help one another. We are Thinking Bigger and Moving Faster.

A Staff Design Quality Engineer is responsible for supporting product development teams at iRhythm. In this role you will provide hands-on technical engineering support from concept through commercialization and post-market evaluation. The Staff Design Quality Engineer serves as a core team member on cross-functional hardware, firmware, stand-alone software product development projects and provide expertise and guidance to the team on design control and risk management. In this position, you will play a key role in ensuring that products meet quality standards consistent with iRhythm’s quality processes, and all external design control and regulatory requirements.
The right candidate will have some experience within all areas of the Quality Management System, and expertise working with electromechanical devices, embedded systems, and software as medical device (SaMD).
This position is onsite and is based at our R&D Headquarters located in San Francisco, CA.
What you’ll be doing
· Contribute to the planning and execution of design controls, risk management, and design verification and validation for iRhythm products.
· Participate and support the development of product design history file and ensure compliance to internal processes and external standards and regulations.
· Partner with engineering to define design inputs, design outputs, and traceability matrices.
· Contribute to the strategy and execution of risk-based design verification and validation.
· Participate and support the development of product risk management file, to examine and assess the product risks associated with user, design, process, and supplier.
· Review design architectures, selections, requirements, and drawings from early design concepts.
· Apply knowledge of IEC 60601, IEC 62366, and IEC 62304 to product development projects.
· Serve as a technical resource for assessing validation requirements, solving test-related problems, and developing preventive strategies.
· Perform and lead risk assessments in support of verification and validation activities
· Assist technical teams in the assessment of design changes; including assessment, planning, verification and validation of the change and documentation as required.
· Produce technical reports to support product changes or quality assurance investigations.
· Support internal and external audits, including preparation and direct interaction with auditors.
· Perform other quality-related duties as assigned.
What We Need To See
· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software, Computer, Electrical, Mechanical or Biomedical Engineering.
· Minimum of 8 years of experience in Quality Assurance of class II or III products with embedded software in the medical device field.
· Demonstrated competency of 21 CFR 820, ISO13485, ISO14971, IEC 62304, and other international standards.
· Solid understanding of design control and risk management from early design and development through commercialization.
· Demonstrated experience with electromechanical systems from concept through launch is preferred.
· Proficiency in using tools for documentation, defect tracking, and test management (e.g., Jira).
· Able to navigate the quality system with minimal oversight on projects.
· Experience using Master Control, Jira, and JAMA is preferred.
Ways to Stand Out
· Understands and can subsequently explain complex quality details to non-experts.
· Exceptional organizational skills.
· Solves complex problems with minimal oversight.
· Balanced risk-based decision making to drive product quality, gain consensus, and work through technical challenges.
What's In It For You
This is a regular full-time position with a competitive compensation package, excellent benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance (all of which start on your first day), health savings account employer contributions (when enrolled in a high deductible medical plan), cafeteria plan pre-taxed benefits (FSA, dependent care FSA, commute reimbursement accounts), travel reimbursement for medical care, noncontributory basic life insurance & short/ long term disability. Additionally, we offer:
• Emotional health support for you and your loved ones
• Legal/Financial / identity theft/ pet and child referral assistance
• Paid parental leave, paid holidays, travel assistance for personal trips, and PTO

iRhythm also provides additional benefits including 401(k) (with company match), an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, pet insurance discount, an unlimited amount of Linked In Learning classes and so much more.
FLSA Status: Exempt
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Location:

San Francisco

Actual compensation may vary depending on job-related factors including knowledge, skills, experience, and work location.

Estimated Pay Range

$154,000.00 - $200,000.00

As a part of our core values, we ensure an inclusive workforce. We welcome and celebrate people of all backgrounds, experiences, skills, and perspectives. iRhythm Technologies, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We will consider for employment all qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with all applicable laws.

iRhythm provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in job application procedures, including those who may have any difficulty using our online system. If you need such an accommodation, you may contact us at [e-mail]

About iRhythm Technologies
iRhythm is a leading digital healthcare company that creates trusted solutions that detect, predict, and prevent disease. Combining wearable biosensors and cloud-based data analytics with powerful proprietary algorithms, iRhythm distills data from millions of heartbeats into clinically actionable information. Through a relentless focus on patient care, iRhythm’s vision is to deliver better data, better insights, and better health for all.

Make iRhythm your path forward. Zio, the heart monitor that changed the game.

At iRhythm, you'll have the opportunity to grow your skills and your career while impacting the lives of people around the world. Together, we are reimagining the way cardiac arrhythmias are diagnosed. We need curious problem solvers like you. With opportunities remotely, at our office, in manufacturing, and in locations across the globe, this is your chance to meaningfully shape the future of cardiac health, our company, and your career.

Driven By Purpose - Cardiac health touches the lives of people all around us. Providing life-changing healthcare solutions that impact patients around the world drives us to bring our best every single day.

Growth Means Opportunity - We are growing rapidly. And with that growth comes a wealth of opportunities to learn and advance at iRhythm. The potential to deepen your impact, seek new opportunities, and advance your career is yours to pursue.

Build the Future - We are a boundary-pushing organization that values innovative thinking and impacts healthcare at a global level. The expectation is to think big and build the future you see for iRhythm, our patients, and yourself.

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