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System Lead - Electrical

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Skilled to contribute in enhancing the IGT-Fixed business results delivery by boosting productivity, quality, and on time execution. By leading the team of experienced designers and engineers in diverse domain, you'll be responsible to create an impact in STET way of working through effective collaboration with external stakeholders.

If you thrive on innovation and driving change, this is the right place for you.

Working as part of an engineering team, you will apply research insights, technology advancements, and best engineering practices to support both innovation and lifecycle improvements of our IGT systems. You will ensure that all developments comply with performance, safety, and product reliability.

This role includes responsibility for defining test strategies, executing compliance and quality testing, and maintaining design documentation. You will contribute to defining long-term technology roadmaps. This role requires strong system-level thinking, hands-on problem-solving, and the ability to mentor engineering teams toward high-quality and compliant design solutions.

Your role:

• Define, deploy, and maintain technology/tool roadmaps with business cases.
• Drive innovation, sustainable solutions, and cultural change.
• Develop strategy to meet productivity target and functional objectives
• Propose solutions to help R&D deliver the patient safety and quality targets
• Collaborate globally and with other Philips business units to implement your experience in meeting the STET targets
• Ensure electrical/electronic design alignment with system-level architecture, requirements, and technical strategy.
• Incorporate safety, reliability, quality considerations into design from concept phase onward & define test strategies, verification plans, and compliance methods aligned with international standards and Norm Compliance teams.
• Lead feasibility assessments and concept evaluations to validate technical options and risks.
• Ensure design meets performance, regulatory, compliance, and cost targets.
• Perform or review quality, safety, and certification testing, ensuring audit-ready documentation.
• Creating and/or participating in design reviews and risk assessments (e.g. FMEA)
• Lead structured RCA for field issues, integration challenges, CAPA and design failures, ensuring permanent corrective action.
• Mentor and coach engineers (electrical, mechanical) to strengthen technical capability and design maturity.
• Work closely with internal and external stakeholders to ensure smooth collaboration and alignment with product goals.
• Alignment with other functions (mechanical, mechatronics, norm compliance, test and validation, purchase, quality, other).
• Conducting early integration tests on predefined prototypes and addressing supplier issues will also be your responsibility. You will follow up on any necessary actions.
• Execute verification of units and parts according to your assignment, with expertise in EMC, testing will be a plus.
• Demonstrated contribution across all phases of the product development lifecycle (V-Model), including Requirements, Design, Development, Verification, Integration, and Sustenance

You’re the right fit if:

• Master's or bachelor’s degree in electrical / Electronics Engineering or STEM 
• At least 15 years' working experience, preferably 5 years in R&D product life cycle management in medical domain.
• Proven experience in at least one of the domains like medical equipment, industrial automation and high precision mechatronics as electrical designer or electrical team lead
• Understanding of PoC (Proof of Concept), Hardware Design, SMPS Design, Analog and Digital Circuit Design, Communication Protocols (I2C, SPI, UART, USB), Hardware testing and Validation, PCB verification, EMI EMC Testing and Certification according to IEC standard
• Experience in product design, development, maintenance, validation cycle, regulatory norms of released products. (Preferable experience in IEC60601-1-2 & and ISO 13485).
• Excellent design documentation skills.
• Result oriented and self-steering with a problem-solving attitude.
• Good Knowledge of Embedded Analog and Digital hardware design, experience in new product introduction or life-cycle development in a regulated industry
• Open-minded, eager to improve for better efficiency with Excellent communication skills and Positive ‘can do’ attitude.
• Work experience in Agile Release Trains following SAFe framework will be preferred.
• Quality mindset, A Six Sigma Green Belt/ black belt will be a plus.
• Experience in utilizing AI platforms and working with AI-driven tools would be a plus.
• Experience in user interface (UI) design and knowledge of UX principles for hardware/software integration will be an added advantage.
• Knowledge of FDA guidelines and compliance requirements for medical devices will be preferred.
• Ability to present and articulate ideas to key stakeholders and leadership team

How we work together
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Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities.
Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.
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If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our culture of impact with care here.