Senior Design Quality Engineer

Are you a Systems-oriented Engineer who believes quality is a design philosophy, not a compliance checkbox? Do you want to be the technical conscience of R&D, ensuring the next generation of life-saving medical systems is robust by design? At Philips IGT Systems, we don't just "check" for quality; we engineer it.

Your Role

As a Senior Design Quality Engineer, you aren't a gatekeeper—you are a strategic consultant and coach. You will partner directly with R&D from day one to "shift quality left," ensuring that reliability and patient safety are baked into the system architecture. You translate complex clinical needs into testable engineering requirements and bridge the gap between abstract design and real-world performance.

Your Responsibilities

• System-Level Strategy: Define the quality and reliability roadmap for the entire product lifecycle, focusing on "Safe by Default" design.

• R&D Integration: Actively participate in Design Controls, trade-off studies, and design reviews. You are a peer to the R&D team, not a post-project auditor.

• Requirements Mastery: Lead hands-on requirements definition, decomposition, and traceability, ensuring every clinical need has a verifiable engineering output.

• Predictive Risk Management: Facilitate high-rigor DFMEA and Use-Related Risk activities. You don't just document risks; you drive design changes to eliminate them.

• V&V Test Strategist: Collaborate with V&V teams to define rigorous test strategies based on statistical sampling and reliability physics.

• Data-Driven Evolution: Analyze field and development data to initiate design adjustments, closing the loop between the hospital and the drawing board.

What You Bring

We are looking for an influencer who uses data and engineering logic to motivate teams toward excellence. You are as comfortable with a reliability model as you are with a regulatory standard.

• Deep Experience: A Bachelor’s (12+ yrs) or Master’s (8+ yrs) in an Engineering discipline, with a heavy focus on Quality or Reliability in high-stakes industries (MedTech, Aerospace, or Automotive).

• Systems Engineering DNA: Proven experience with Systems Thinking, requirements management (IBM DOORS/GtRW), and ideally MBSE/SysML.

• Reliability Toolkit: Skilled in Reliability Prediction (e.g., Telcordia, MIL-HDBK-217) and advanced FMEA facilitation (e.g., AIAG & VDA, APIS IQ).

• Standards Expert: Deep implementation knowledge of IEC 60601, IEC 62366, and EU MDR.

• Problem Solver: Expert in structured Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Design for Six Sigma (DfSS).

• The "Partner" Mindset: A track record of influencing R&D outcomes through coaching and collaboration rather than "audit-only" gatekeeping.

What This Role is NOT

• This is not a pure QMS or CAPA management role.

• This is not an audit-only or documentation-heavy compliance role.

• This is not manufacturing or supplier quality.

• This is a role for an engineer who wants to own the design of safety.

Why Join Philips?

You will work on healthcare technologies that truly matter, within a team that values deep engineering expertise, collaboration, and continuous development. From competitive compensation to healthy work-life balance, Philips offers an environment where you can grow while making meaningful impact.

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