Systems Engineer

Are you a seasoned Systems Engineer with exceptional analytical, troubleshooting, and design capabilities? Are you passionate about making a profound, positive impact on people's lives through the development of a groundbreaking medical device that will revolutionize the treatment of eye disease? If this sounds like you, we want to hear from you!

PulseMedica, a leading start-up based in Edmonton, is seeking an experienced Systems Engineer to join our exceptional team. As the key figure in our projects, you will play a pivotal role in providing technical guidance throughout the entire development lifecycle, overseeing planning, design, implementation, and maintenance phases. Your influence will be crucial in ensuring exceptional quality and alignment between business goals, system requirements, and technical implementation.

About Us

PulseMedica, proudly Great Place to Work Certified for the third consecutive year, is a fast-growing, innovative medical device startup. We combine cutting-edge research, advanced technology, and production excellence to tackle ophthalmic diseases and disabilities. Our mission is to provide novel treatment options through state-of-the-art solutions, blending real-time classical computer vision, deep learning algorithms, 3D eye imaging, and high-precision laser surgery. With a commitment to revolutionizing ophthalmic treatments, we are dedicated to delivering exceptional outcomes that prevent blindness and disabilities caused by eye diseases. At PulseMedica, we foster a collaborative and supportive environment where talent thrives, and our team's collective impact drives change in the field of eye care.

The Opportunity

As the Systems Engineer, you are an experienced and forward-thinking leader who will serve as the technical design leader for product developments and spearhead the definition and execution of system architecture. Leading the system design, architecture, and vision, you will guide the development, integration, and testing phases of cutting-edge medical devices for development and productization. You will provide technical guidance to a cross-functional engineering team that spans optics, mechanical, electrical, software and machine learning domains. You will ensure the delivery of essential technical content to demonstrate performance, safety, regulatory compliance, operational efficiency, intellectual property, and QMS compliance. Your influence will be crucial in achieving exceptional quality and alignment between business goals, system requirements and technical implementation. Your expertise in software, electronics, and systems engineering will be essential to ensure the successful delivery of our products.

The person will be responsible for:

• Providing technical leadership and oversight to diverse, distributed teams of engineers in the development of complex medical device software, optics, electronics, mechanics, and machine learning from concept initiation to product release.
• Translating unmet needs into actionable user and system technical-level requirements, supporting platform architectures, and associated project execution plans.
• Translating highly technical analysis into easily understood recommendations and design alternatives that will support decision making by stakeholders.
• Collaborating across multidisciplinary teams to create, verify, manage, and track system- and subsystem-level requirements and specifications.
• Demonstrating leadership and advanced knowledge of PLC and SDLC methodologies.
• Planning and supervising task breakdown and execution within project teams, ensuring projects are high quality and delivered on time.
• Working with development teams to support risk analysis, risk management, FMEAs, and identifying proper risk mitigation solutions for systems and subsystems.
• Overseeing development processes to ensure compliance with relevant standards, including medical device safety, risk management, and usability.
• Ensuring systems design and documentation meet all safety and regulatory compliance requirements.
• Engaging in hands-on work to drive new functionality within the system.
• Participating in animal and bench-testing labs for both R&D hands-on work and clinical observations as part of clinical expertise required for system characterization.
• Supporting key processes in the development life cycle, including sustainability, failure investigations, software optimization, technical experiments, risk management, usability validation, and UI/UX specifications.
• Providing technical leadership and guidance to the development team, ensuring adherence to best practices and architectural principles.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of Bachelor's degree in Biomedical, Electrical, Software, Robotics, Algorithms, or Systems Engineering.
• Minimum of 3 years of hands-on technical and development experience in Biomedical, Electrical, Software, Robotics, Mechanical, or Optics fields.
• Experience overseeing the full product development cycle of complex medical device systems or other regulated fields, from initial concept to product release.
• Ability to provide guidance and direction to less experienced technical personnel.
• Track record of strong cross-functional collaboration, influencing without authority, and project management enabling highly effective project teams.
• Proven analytical problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Self-driven with a proactive attitude and a capacity to initiate tasks.
• Collaborative team player with strong communication and engagement skills.
• Must be located in Edmonton or willing to travel to Edmonton on a regular basis.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Minimum of 2 years of leadership experience in technical teams or as a Systems Engineer in medical devices or other highly regulated industries.
• Experience in systems engineering of complex medical devices.
• Proficiency in software, hardware, and algorithm characterization and requirements writing.
• Proficiency in system performance modeling, simulation, testing, and image processing, using tools like Python, MATLAB, etc.

Anticipated Start Date: As soon as a suitable candidate is found

Duration: Full time Permanent (40 hours per week)

Salary: Commensurate to experience and qualifications

Location: Edmonton (Preferred)

What you can expect from PulseMedica:

• Competitive compensation, health, dental and vision benefits and the option to participate in our employee stock option plan
• Free on-site gym (Jackson's Gym)
• A role that contributes to helping change people's lives by enhancing their vision
• A unique opportunity to build, grow, and be part of a team that is going to revolutionize a multi-billion dollar industry
• Hybrid work
• Growth Opportunities
• Monthly team events
• Working for a company that was recently Great Place to Work certified!

We believe that diverse teams perform better and that fostering an inclusive work environment is a key part of growing a successful team. We welcome people of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives to apply for this position.