Head of Systems Engineering - Intravascular Diagnostic Systems

Job Title
Head of Systems Engineering - Intravascular Diagnostic Systems

Job Description

Effective Tuesday, January 4, 2022, all U.S.-based employees are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID as a condition of employment at Philips*. Employees may request a reasonable accommodation.

*Montana employees are currently excluded from this requirement at this time.

If you are a Colorado resident and this role is a field-based or remote role, you may be eligible to receive additional information about the compensation and benefits for this role, which we will provide upon request. You may contact 888-367-7223, option 5, for assistance.

Philips is a global leader in health technology, committed to improving billions of lives worldwide and striving to make the world healthier and more sustainable through innovation. Driven by the vision of a better tomorrow.

But it's not just what we do, it's who we are. We are 80,000, wonderfully unique individuals, with two things in common. An unwavering sense of purpose and a relentless determination to deliver on our customers' needs. It's what inspires us to create meaningful solutions - the kind that make a real difference - when it matters most.

The world and our customers' needs are changing faster than ever before and while we are proud of what we do already, we know we can do more. That's why we need you, to help us tackle increasingly complex challenges posed by ever evolving health and well-being needs.

In this role, you have the opportunity to make life better

Looking at the challenges the world is facing today Philips' purpose has never been more relevant. So whatever your role, if you share our passion for helping others, you'll be working towards creating a better and fairer future for all.

US work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work-authorized visa.

Candidates need to live within commuting distance to the Philips San Diego, CA USA location.

Head of Systems Engineering

The Head of Systems Engineering leads the systems engineering discipline, manages a team of engineers, and is the chief architect for a highly integrated diagnostic platform consisting of connected medical device disposables, interface modules, consoles, signal processing, algorithms, and user interface software. The integrated diagnostics platform progressively fits within an evolving and maturing Philips infrastructure and various cath lab configurations.

Individually, the person filling this role provides technical leadership to develop, gain regulatory approval, and globally commercialize integrated intravascular diagnostic systems. The person filling this position will drive technical decisions, stakeholder management, and ensure team commitments (scope, project contract, user needs) are met. The person filling this position will provide overall technical leadership to multi-disciplinary R&D teams in the development, approval, and marketing of this strategically important technology.

As a functional leader, this person will manage a team of systems engineers, system testers, and human factors engineers that support advanced development, product development, and sustaining engineering. This leader will coach and develop systems engineers and drive continuous improvement into ways of work.

A Day in the Life

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Represents consolidated R&D function on integrated Program Core Team.
• Develops and maintains program R&D functional strategies, plans and schedules to meet product value goals and manage technical risks.
• Ensures robust completion of phase gate deliverables owned by R&D.
• Establishes and communicates critical device performance objectives, monitors progress, assesses technical risk, provides trade-off strategies to business leadership team, and implements strategies to ensure successful delivery of the product.
• Proactively provides input and judgement to influence best path forward, staying informed and aware to act, communicate and adjust during project execution.
• Communicates key program R&D information to ensure leadership engagement and alignment.
• Monitors and manages team dynamics and health of the program team.
• Interacts with a cross site, cross functional team as well as external groups (e.g. KOLs) to develop strategic plans encompassing all necessary business elements of the product development plan from VPA (Value Proposition Assessment) to global commercialization.
• Develops strong relationships with program leadership, cross-divisional and cross-functional team members to accomplish agreed upon deliverables, timelines, and methodology. Uses facilitative leadership to solicit input from all cross functional members to arrive at the best decisions to reach portfolio milestones.
• Resolves conflicts and issues goals with product team members, functions, businesses, etc. to ensure successful achievement of goals and timelines.

As a functional leader,

• Guides and coaches direct reports to improve skills and outcomes.
• Leads competency development, particularly clinical acumen, critical thinking, system decomposition and budgeting, among others.
• Ensures technical strategies are sound.
• Fosters connections within wider Philips IGT architect community to maintain alignment between IGT-D and IGT hardware and software pipelines.
• Participates in Philips systems engineering community to share and bring best practices to the team.
• Assesses organizational capacity and capability, provides strategic workforce planning to enable execution of the future portfolio.
• Demonstrates sound, strategic, and effective decision-making skills to quickly gather relevant information and decide in a timely manner.
• Serves as an expert to project teams on overall systems engineering. Stops the debate and drives agility into product development.

Keys to Success

• Strong influence management skills across sites, functions, and at all levels
• Strong skill set in leading others without direct authority.
• Strong project management skills and abilities to work cooperatively at all levels in a matrix environment to build and maintain positive relationships required to accomplish organizational goals.
• Effective communication skills and interpersonal/team effectiveness- ability to succinctly and accurately communicate to various levels of management and employees.
• Embodies Philips values.
• Strong analytical, planning, organization and time management skills to effectively execute technical development plans
• Effective decision-making skills- ability to negotiate and balance decisions and priorities across needs of the organization.
• A background in ultrasound technologies; an understanding of clinical/technical applications of intravasular products and application related imaging.
• Experience developing electro-mechanical devices employing real-time embedded systems and graphic user interfaces.
• Experience with product design related to cardiovascular products.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical discipline. Examples: Mechanical, Electrical, Software or Biomedical Engineering
• 15+ years of experience managing product development and R&D teams
• Experience with engineering of Medical Device Development (including all primary regulations FDA/ISO/PMDA)
• Expertise in development and integration of complex systems (Hardware, Software, Mechanical)
• Sufficient competency across systems, software/hardware/disposables, requirements flow down, functional budgeting, human factors, reliability, and design controls to ensure best practices are applied, to assess progress and risks, and to make preventive course corrections
• Expertise in creating an effective development plan while aligning relevant Core Team members and stakeholders
• Proven ability of working effectively in a virtual and global team, within a large multi-site matrixed organization
• Familiar with IEC 60601, IEC 62304, IEC 62366, UL, ANSI and ASTM standards
• Mastery of product development process
• Experienced technical leader with a track record of successful product launches in the medical device industry
• Experience with Design for Six Sigma, Design for Reliability (DfR), Design for Reliability and Manufacturability (DRM), Design for Serviceability, Design for Lean Sigma (DFLS) and/or robust design practices

In return, we offer you

The ability to collaborate with, learn and grow from colleagues in a highly complex, global organization where you can use your strengths to help drive strategic business initiatives for Philips. Additionally, we provide you a dynamic working environment in an innovative business, paired with a competitive salary, excellent benefits, and a supportive atmosphere where you can sharpen your talents with new challenges and career opportunities.

How we work at Philips

There are three core ways that define our ways of working - embracing flexibility, being at our best, and impactful collaboration. We believe this enables us to deliver an outstanding experience to our customers and create the best place to work for people who share our passion.

We know just how important direct interactions are and work is more engaging when we are more frequently face-to-face, and that we experience better collaboration which drives innovation. While we have many different types of roles across Philips most require a combination of in-person collaboration with colleagues and partners, usually at a Philips location, and individual focus time, which can be done remotely.

Our newly adopted hybrid work concept fuses flexibility with collaboration to deliver great outcomes for our people and our customers. We are embracing an approach wherein we spend more time together than apart - which for full-time employees translates to an average of at least 3 days working from the office and up to 2 days from home - for our hybrid roles.

Hybrid work flexibility means people can meet the changing demands of work and home in the most balanced, productive, and healthy way.

Our hybrid working model is defined in 3 ways:

• We believe in the importance of impactful collaboration: There's a certain energy when everyone's in the same room that can heighten idea generation and creative friction needed for problem-solving.
• We embrace flexibility: Choosing where, when, and how to work can vary according to task and team schedules. Flexibility isn't office or online, it means choosing the space that works best for you, your teams, and our customers on a case-by-case basis.
• We want to be at our best: The way we work, and our workspaces are designed to support our well-being, offer career advancement opportunities, and enable us to be at our best.

Why should you join Philips?

Working at Philips is more than a job. It's a calling to create a healthier society through meaningful work, focused on innovative, customer-first health technology solutions. Help us improve the health and well-being of billions of people, every year. Ultimately creating a career that no one could have planned for. Even you.

Visit our careers website to explore what it's like working at Philips, read stories from our employee blog, find information about our recruitment process and answers to some frequently asked questions.

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It is the policy of Philips to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all colleagues and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, gender, pregnancy/childbirth, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability or perceived disability, genetic information, citizenship, veteran or military status or a person's relationship or association with a protected veteran, including spouses and other family members, marital or domestic partner status, or any other category protected by federal, state and/or local laws.

As an equal opportunity employer, Philips is committed to a diverse workforce. In order to ensure reasonable accommodation for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Veterans' Readjustment Act of 1974, and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, applicants that require accommodation in the job application process may contact 888-367-7223, option 5, for assistance.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veteran