Systems Engineer

Overview

Stress Engineering Services, Inc. is the premier provider of engineered solutions and professional consulting services across a wide range of engineering disciplines. Since 1972, our clients have benefited from our special in-depth technical knowledge and proven performance in failure analysis, solid mechanics and structural design, reliability and predictive engineering, instrumentation and testing, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, floating systems, forensics, and material science. We maintain an excellent reputation within the industries we serve, with more than 80% of our current business from repeat clients or direct referrals.

We are looking to add an engineer to our team in Cincinnati (Mason, OH).  This engineer’s focus will be on systems engineering work.

Responsibilities

The Systems Engineer will be part of a dynamic team within our Consumer Products, Medical Devices and Pharmaceutical Practices. The person in this role will focus on providing engineering services including requirements development and failure analysis engineering services. Responsibilities of an individual in this role include but are not limited to:

• Candidate will be responsible for providing subject matter expertise in reliability assessment of medical devices, medical capital equipment, in-vitro devices, consumer appliances and production equipment
• Drive day-to-day decisions to ensure robust products are in compliance
• Lead customer engagement in areas such as systems architecture, systems verification & validation activities while understanding and balancing system design objectives
• Translate customer and technical design input requirements using systems engineering principles to develop system architecture and specifications with clear boundary conditions
• Work effectively with product design engineers (Mechanical, Electrical & Software Engineers) to achieve clients’ objectives
• Provide project support and guidance for system testing and reliability subject matter expertise
• Candidate will provide risk analysis, risk mitigation and corrective action and preventive action based on design review of devices and equipment

Qualifications

• BS in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial or Biomedical) and 10 years’ experience; or MS in Engineering (Systems, Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial or Biomedical) and 8 years’ experience required
• Minimum 4 years’ experience applying Product Development and Risk Management methodologies including FMEA, FTA and Risk/Hazard Analysis required
• Experience leading a cross functional team required
• Must have the ability to understand project tradeoffs, interdependencies, and constraints
• Experience with reliability engineering methods including reliability/survivability statistics and Design of Experiments required
• Experience in managing the execution of complex systems engineering activities required
• Must be self-motivated, organized, and a problem solver who demonstrates knowledge of fundamentals but also has ability to view the “big picture”
• Must be able to work in the US without sponsorship or need for future sponsorship
• Interest in client development and entrepreneurship to support the growth of a team and organization preferred
• Previous Medical Devices product development experience or experience with structured and disciplined development processes (such as automotive or aerospace) preferred
• Experience in the implementation of design control requirements and verification activities preferred
• Experience with tools such as Voice of the Customer, Critical to Quality, Quality Function Deployment and Failure Prediction Analysis preferred