Systems Engineer - Requirements Engineering
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Join our team now at Siemens Healthineers as a Systems Engineer - Requirements Engineering. This role is well-suited for an ambitious professional looking for the next step in your career. As the Systems Engineer (Requirements Engineering) you will be responsible for:
- Leading requirements definition across software, assay, and other subsystems.
- Defining and analyzing use cases and user stories in alignment with business objectives, Design Input Requirements, and system design.
- Driving software requirements through E&E, interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, hands-on product experience, and workflow analysis.
- Independently engaging with internal and external stakeholders across commercial, marketing, usability, assay development, and systems engineering to inform and drive efficient subsystem, assay, and software development.
- Collaborating with UX on workflow and GUI definition, including analyzing competitive and legacy product workflows, edge cases and exceptions/error conditions.
- Guiding technical discussions to assess ability of common platform solutions to meet software requirements.
- Writing clear, testable subsystem requirements using standard templates.
- Supporting subsystem risk management activities by facilitating risk and test tracing to subsystem requirements.
- Controlling changes to baselined requirements and supporting impact analysis for proposed changes, bug fixes, or new features.
- Identifying and resolving requirements conflicts, facilitating prioritization, driving tradeoff analyses and proactively managing requirements to achieve project objectives.
- Managing requirements throughout the development lifecycle, maintaining traceability in DOORS, and linking subsystem requirements to DIRs, specifications and tests.
- Leading peer reviews and design reviews of requirements documents; identifying and remediating requirements errors and defects.
- Supporting technical reviews of design, implementation, and test to assess compliance to subsystem requirements.
- Tracking and reporting progress to teams and stakeholders verbally and in writing.
This position may suit you best if you are proficient with the below skills and would like to develop your career with Healthineers:
- Knowledge of Systems Engineering principles and best practices. Experience in requirements gathering, analysis, and documentation for complex systems.
- Solid understanding of medical device software development and risk management processes
- Demonstrated ability to work independently as well as part of a cross functional product development team.
- Facilitation skills to lead and drive discussions with technical and commercial stakeholder groups to elicit information to inform requirements.
- Proficient in tools and processes related to requirements and systems engineering, including IBM DOORS, and Azure DevOps.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills for interfacing with multiple stakeholders, interdisciplinary teams, distributed teams, and external development partners.
- Proficiency in creating clear, consistent, and testable user stories, acceptance criteria, and documentation.
- Excellent technical writing, communication, and presentation skills.
- Good attention to detail and the ability to recognize discrepancies; aspiration for technical excellence.
- Strong organization and time management skills; experience tracking and reporting progress using data-driven dashboards.
- Proven track record of delivering quality results in a resource-constrained environment.
Experience and requirements for success in this role:
- Degree in Systems Engineering, Software Engineering or related field plus 8+ years' experience in a systems engineering role supporting product development in the life sciences or healthcare industry.
- Experience driving systems engineering activities at the subsystem level (e.g., requirements, verification/validation, design and test traceability, risk management).
- Familiarity with in vitro diagnostic device development processes including ISO13485, IEC62304, and ISO14971.
- Familiarity with critical care or primary care assays is a plus.
- Working knowledge of requirements management tools such as DOORS, or similar.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and Azure DevOps; experience with SAP is a plus.
We are a team of more than 72,000 highly dedicated Healthineers in more than 70 countries. As a leader in medical technology, we constantly push the boundaries to create better outcomes and experiences for patients, no matter where they live or what health issues they are facing. Our portfolio is crucial for clinical decision-making and treatment pathways.
When you join Siemens Healthineers, you become one in a global team of scientists, clinicians, developers, researchers, professionals, and skilled specialists, who believe in each individual's potential to contribute with diverse ideas. We are from different backgrounds, cultures, religions, political and/or sexual orientations, and work together, to fight the world's most threatening diseases and enable access to care, united by one purpose: to pioneer breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.