Senior Automation Engineer

Additional Locations: Canada-QC-Montreal

Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.

About the role

As a Senior Test Engineer, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the quality and reliability of our medical device products. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and execute comprehensive test plans, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations. Your work will directly impact patient safety and contribute to life-changing solutions.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Applies technical knowledge to innovate, design, and develop processes, procedures, fixturing and/or automation.
• Perform engineering, functional and performance testing of electrical/electro-mechanical components, subsystems, and complete systems.
• Conduct electrical safety and EMC testing and ensure compliance with relevant standards and regulations.
• Monitor and analyze test results, generate detailed reports, and provide recommendations for improvement.
• Provides Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Design for Test (DFT) input to the engineering print package.
• Work with a cross-functional team.
• When required, provides work direction to technicians and may train test personnel when required as part of a validation.
• Designs, develops, debugs, modifies, and tests electrical circuits and systems by using current tools, analysis techniques, and technologies.
• Work independently to plan and schedule own activities necessary to meet timelines and communicate in a timely manner.

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering (or related field).
• 5+ years of relevant experience relating to test automation and fixture design

• Experience with automation in LabVIEW. 

• Understands engineering and problem-solving principles, concepts, tools, and techniques, as well as fundamentals of change management and test validation. 

• Develops creative solutions and collaboratively draws ideas from cross functional teams. Advocates for their ideas with passion while listening to and considering the ideas of the team. 

• Takes initiative to identify improvement opportunities, prioritize them, communicate them to the appropriate levels and sees them through to completion.  

• Is resilient in the face of setbacks. Plans appropriately for risks and responds positively to unforeseen problems. 

• Excellent organizational, communication and collaboration skills. 

• Strong documentation skills. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Equipment and fixture design, along with test systems development experience 
• Process Development; equipment validations and process characterization experience 
• Ability to translate theoretical and abstract ideas into meaningful innovation 
• Python and/or C/C++ programming experience 
• Data driven individual; statistical analysis experience 
• Design experience; new product development 

Requisition ID: 589641

As a leader in medical science for more than 40 years, we are committed to solving the challenges that matter most – united by a deep caring for human life. Our mission to advance science for life is about transforming lives through innovative medical solutions that improve patient lives, create value for our customers, and support our employees and the communities in which we operate. Now more than ever, we have a responsibility to apply those values to everything we do – as a global business and as a global corporate citizen.

So, choosing a career with Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX) isn’t just business, it’s personal. And if you’re a natural problem-solver with the imagination, determination, and spirit to make a meaningful difference to people worldwide, we encourage you to apply and look forward to connecting with you!