Staff Systems Engineer - Medical Imaging Platforms

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

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.