Staff Systems Engineer

563d Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.; Cranston (RI); On-site; USD 100,000 - 137,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Paid parking/public transportation

Paid time off

Paid sick time

Job summary

Siemens Healthineers is seeking a Staff Systems Engineer in Cranston, RI to lead system-level investigations for PET/CT and PET/MR systems and to define cross-modality interfaces across PET, CT, and MR. You will drive integration of hardware, firmware, and software developed by global teams and help shape architecture for future imaging systems.

The role requires 6+ years in systems engineering or related fields, strong communication skills, and willingness to travel up to 10%.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's, Master's or PhD in Engineering, Physics, or related technical discipline.
• Minimum of 6 years in systems engineering or related role for complex medical devices or regulated industries.
• Strong written and verbal communication; ability to collaborate across large cross-functional teams.
• Willingness to travel up to 10% domestically and internationally.

Responsibilities

• Lead system-level investigations across PET gantry, PET/CT, and PET/MR subsystems.
• Define cross-modality interfaces between PET and CT/MR systems; ensure stability and validation.
• Drive system integration across hardware, firmware, embedded software, and application software.
• Improve product quality and reliability through integration and test strategies; investigate issues.
• Contribute to system architecture and interface decisions across embedded software and hardware layers.
• Translate complex challenges into actionable technical plans with stakeholders.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers; share systems expertise.

Skills

Python

MATLAB

Education

Engineering or Physics degrees

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.

Join Siemens Healthineers Molecular Imaging as a Staff Systems Engineer and play a key role in the integration, investigation, and continued evolution of our complex PET/CT and PET/MR systems. In this role, you will lead system-level technical investigations, define and manage critical interfaces across PET, CT, and MR, and help bring together hardware, firmware, and software developed by global engineering teams. You will work across disciplines to solve complex technical challenges, strengthen product quality and reliability, and contribute to the architectural direction of future Molecular Imaging systems. This opportunity is well suited for an experienced systems engineer who enjoys solving problems that span multiple technologies and teams and who is interested in growing toward broader system architecture responsibilities.

You are responsible for:

• Leading system-level technical investigations into complex issues spanning multiple subsystems, with particular focus on the PET gantry, and partnering with development engineering teams to drive issues through resolution while maintaining system-level oversight.
• Owning and defining cross-modality interfaces between PET and adjacent CT and MR systems, ensuring interfaces remain clearly defined, stable, and validated as products and subsystems evolve.
• Driving system integration across complex hardware, firmware, embedded software, and application software developed by international engineering teams.
• Advancing product quality and reliability by contributing to integration and test strategies and investigating system-level issues involving performance, timing, usability, and reliability.
• Contributing to system architecture and interface decisions, particularly across embedded software and hardware-abstraction layers, with opportunities to expand into broader system architecture and cost/performance modeling.
• Translating complex system challenges into actionable technical approaches by synthesizing input from engineering, product management, clinical stakeholders, and other cross-functional partners.
• Providing technical leadership and mentorship by sharing systems expertise, supporting fellow engineers, and helping strengthen the team's overall technical capabilities.
• Collaborating across global teams in the U.S., Germany, China, and India to align technical priorities, resolve cross-functional challenges, and support successful system development and integration.

This position may suit you best if:

• Complex system integration: Integrating hardware, firmware, embedded software, and application software within sophisticated technical products.
• System-level troubleshooting: Investigating problems that cross subsystem or technology boundaries and determining where issues originate and how they should be resolved.
• Cross-modality and subsystem interfaces: Defining, managing, and validating interfaces between interconnected systems and engineering disciplines.
• Technical leadership without direct authority: Building trust across functions, bringing teams together around complex problems, and driving technical alignment through influence.
• System architecture: Understanding system-level tradeoffs and having an interest in expanding into broader architecture and cost/performance responsibilities.
• Programming and data analysis: Using tools such as Python or MATLAB for data analysis, data mining, troubleshooting, and development of engineering utilities.
• Global engineering collaboration: Communicating complex technical concepts clearly across international, multidisciplinary development organizations.
• Medical devices or other regulated products: Applying disciplined systems engineering and development practices within complex, quality-focused environments.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Engineering, Physics, or a related technical discipline.
• Minimum of 6 years of experience in systems engineering, system integration, product development, or a related technical role involving complex medical devices or another highly regulated industry.
• Demonstrated experience investigating and resolving complex technical problems spanning multiple systems, subsystems, or engineering disciplines.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate technical concepts effectively to engineering teams and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to work both independently and collaboratively within large, cross-functional teams.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 10%.

Who we are:

We are a team of more than 72,000 highly dedicated Healthineers in more than 70 countries.

How we work:

When you join Siemens Healthineers, you become part of 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:

$99,930 - $137,401

Benefits:

• 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:

Siemens Healthineers is an Equal Opportunity and Aff… encouraging diversity in the workplace.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability unrelated to ability, marital status, family responsibilities, pregnancy, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, transgender, sex stereotyping, order of protection status, protected veteran or military status, or an unfavorable discharge from military service, and other categories protected by federal, state or local law.

EEO is the Law: Applicants and employees are protected under Federal law from discrimination.

Reasonable Accommodations:

Siemens Healthineers is committed to equal employment opportunity.

As part of this commitment, we will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations.

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Export Control:

A successful candidate must be able to work with controlled technology in accordance with US export control law. It is Siemens Healthineers’ policy to comply fully and completely with all United States export control laws and regulations, including those implemented by the Department of Commerce through the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), by the Department of State through the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), and by the Treasury Department through the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions regulations.

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