Job Description

Job Title Electrical Architect

Electrical Architect
As an Electrical Architect and technical leader, you will contribute to the development and improvement of electrical subsystems including computing platforms, user interfaces, displays, and EMC-compliant designs and solutions for Philips Image Guided Therapy products. 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 relevant international standards while delivering high 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:

• 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.
• Stay current with emerging technologies, standards, and industry trends relevant to the domain.
• 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
• Prior involvement as a lead member in a New Product Innovation (NPI) team, driving the development of at least one product from concept to launch.

You are a part of Infrastructure department in Mechatronic Development Cluster within the IGT Fixed Systems R&D organization. The department consists of an open and multi-cultural team working towards new product introductions (NPI) of image guided therapy system.
You are fit if:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in electronic engineering or equivalent
• Minimum of 12+ years of relevant R&D working experience in medical domain.
• 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
• Ability to work independently & to act proactively.
• 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 and knowledge of EMC in design and testing 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:
We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.
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.
This role is an office-based role.
About Philips:
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