Staff Systems Engineer

Siemens Healthineers; Knoxville (TN); 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 and safe time

Job summary

Siemens Healthineers, Knoxville, TN, is seeking a Staff Systems Engineer to lead the integration and investigation of PET/CT and PET/MR systems. You will define interfaces across modalities and drive cross-disciplinary hardware, firmware, and software collaboration with international teams.

You will help strengthen product quality, contribute to architecture decisions, and mentor colleagues while growing toward broader system responsibilities.

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%.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Python

MATLAB

Systems engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical leadership

Education

Engineering/Physics degree

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. 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:

$99,930 - $137,401

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.

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