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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

The Senior Design Quality Assurance Engineer serves as a key Quality representative for the design, development, integration, and sustaining support of Neuromodulation medical-device systems. The role emphasizes external equipment, implantable leads, accessories, and surgical tools.

This engineer partners with R&D, Systems Engineering, Manufacturing, Supplier Engineering, Regulatory Affairs, Clinical, Human Factors, and Project Management to build quality into products throughout the product life cycle. The position provides independent quality oversight of design controls, risk management, design verification and validation, design transfer, change assessment, and post-market feedback.

This is a defined-term, hybrid position preferably based in Valencia, California (or California in general), with periodic on-site presence aligned to business and project needs.

Work mode:

At Boston Scientific, we value collaboration and synergy. This hybrid role is based in Valencia or Carlsbad, CA and requires being on-site at least three (3) days per week.

Relocation assistance:

Relocation assistance may be available for this position at this time.

Visa sponsorship:

Boston Scientific will not offer sponsorship or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position at this time

Your responsibilities will include

• Serve as the Design Quality Assurance representative for new-product development, integration, remediation, and sustaining projects involving implantable leads, accessories, and surgical tools.
• Support cross-functional teams through applicable design-control activities, ensuring user needs, design inputs, design outputs, design reviews, verification, validation, design transfer, and design changes are appropriately planned, executed, documented, and traceable.
• Provide quality oversight for risk-management activities throughout the product life cycle, including risk-management planning, preliminary hazard analysis, system and component hazard analyses, design FMEAs, use-related risk analysis, risk-control verification, residual-risk evaluation, and production/post-production feedback.
• Support design validation and human-factors activities to confirm that the finished device, accessories, labeling, packaging, and use workflows meet user needs and intended uses in representative use environments.
• Providing quality oversight for biocompatibility, sterilization, packaging, shelf-life, transport, electrical safety, electromagnetic compatibility, and active-implantable-device evidence, as applicable to the assigned products and changes.
• Support supplier and manufacturing quality activities that affect design requirements or product performance, including component qualification, supplier changes, nonconformance investigations, process validation, design transfer, and production-readiness reviews.
• Lead or support design-change assessments, CAPA, complaint investigations, nonconformance investigations, and field-signal evaluations by connecting post-market evidence to risk files, requirements, verification evidence, and potential corrective actions.
• Lead and support the review of post-market surveillance data, to evaluate product performance, identify emerging risks and trends, assess potential impacts to design requirements and risk management files, and determine the need for design, labeling, verification, validation, or corrective actions.
• Facilitate monthly Complaint Review Board (CRB) activities, including coordinating cross-functional contributors to develop meeting content, supporting pre-read review of clinical and medical safety escalation assessments, analyzing and trending complaint data, tracking and following up on action items, summarizing CRB decisions and outcomes, and distributing meeting materials and follow-up actions to stakeholders and participants.

What we’re looking for in you:

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in biomedical, Mechanical, Electrical, Materials, Systems, Manufacturing Engineering, or another relevant engineering or scientific discipline.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Design Quality, Quality Engineering, Quality Systems, Post-Market Surveillance, Risk Management, CAPA, product development, or a related engineering function in the medical-device industry or another highly regulated environment.
• Experience reviewing technical documentation such as engineering drawings, specifications, tolerance analyses, test protocols/reports, FMEAs, hazard analyses, and validation evidence.
• Ability to apply risk-based judgment, independently challenge incomplete evidence, and translate quality and regulatory expectations into actionable project requirements.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across R&D, Manufacturing, Supplier Engineering, Regulatory, Clinical, Human Factors, Marketing, and Project Management.
• Working knowledge of U.S. FDA Quality Management System Regulation and applicable design-control, complaint, CAPA, and reporting requirements, as well as applicable international regulatory requirements.
• Experience with ISO 13485, Medical devices quality management systems.
• Experience with ISO 14971, Medical-device risk management.

Preferred qualifications

• Master’s degree in engineering, scientific, or quality-related discipline.
• Direct experience with active implantable neuromodulation devices and associated external equipment, implantable leads, extensions, accessories, chargers, or surgical tools.
• Experience with lead and connector performance, mechanical fatigue, electrical integrity, biocompatibility, sterilization, packaging, shelf life, and simulated-use testing.
• Experience planning or reviewing Design Verification, Design Validation, reliability, test-method validation, Gauge R&R, and statistical sample-size rationales.
• Experience with supplier controls, component qualification, manufacturing transfer, process validation, complaint handling, CAPA, and external or regulatory audits.
• Experience supporting system-level risk management and traceability across multiple hardware subsystems and interfaces.
• Experience with IEC 62366-1, application of usability engineering to medical devices.
• Experience with IEC 60601-1, basic safety and essential performance of medical electrical equipment.
• ASQ Certified Quality Engineer (CQE), Certified Quality Auditor (CQA), Six Sigma certification, or comparable quality credential.

Requisition ID: 634783 

Minimum Salary: $ 89200 

Maximum Salary: $ 169500 

The anticipated compensation listed above and the value of core and optional employee benefits offered by Boston Scientific (BSC) – see www.bscbenefitsconnect.com—will vary based on actual location of the position and other pertinent factors considered in determining actual compensation for the role. Compensation will be commensurate with demonstrable level of experience and training, pertinent education including licensure and certifications, among other relevant business or organizational needs. At BSC, it is not typical for an individual to be hired near the bottom or top of the anticipated salary range listed above.

Compensation for non-exempt (hourly), non-sales roles may also include variable compensation from time to time (e.g., any overtime and shift differential) and annual bonus target (subject to plan eligibility and other requirements).

Compensation for exempt, non-sales roles may also include variable compensation, i.e., annual bonus target and long-term incentives (subject to plan eligibility and other requirements).

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Boston Scientific transforms lives through innovative medical technologies that improve the health of patients around the world. As a global medical technology leader for more than 45 years, we advance science for life by providing a broad range of high-performance solutions that address unmet patient needs and reduce the cost of healthcare. Our portfolio of devices and therapies helps physicians diagnose and treat complex cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive, oncological, neurological and urological diseases and conditions. Learn more at www.bostonscientific.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

Boston Scientific Corporation has been and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer. To ensure full implementation of its equal employment policy, the Company will continue to take steps to assure that recruitment, hiring, assignment, promotion, compensation, and all other personnel decisions are made and administered without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information or any other protected class.

Please be advised that certain US based positions, including without limitation field sales and service positions that call on hospitals and/or health care centers, require acceptable proof of COVID-19 vaccination status.  Candidates will be notified during the interview and selection process if the role(s) for which they have applied require proof of vaccination as a condition of employment.  Boston Scientific continues to evaluate its policies and protocols regarding the COVID-19 vaccine and will comply with all applicable state and federal law and healthcare credentialing requirements.   As employees of the Company, you will be expected to meet the ongoing requirements for your roles, including any new requirements, should the Company’s policies or protocols change with regard to COVID-19 vaccination.

Among other requirements, Boston Scientific maintains specific prohibited substance test requirements for safety-sensitive positions.  This role is deemed safety-sensitive and, as such, candidates will be subject to a prohibited substance test as a requirement.  The goal of the prohibited substance testing is to increase workplace safety in compliance with the applicable law.