Job Description

Job Title Electrical Designer

Emergency Care Business:
In late January, we announced that Bridgefield Capital signed an agreement to acquire Philips' Emergency Care business which includes leading brands and products like HeartStart AEDs, Intrepid and DFM100 monitor defibrillators, Tempus monitor and Tempus ALS systems, and Corsium and ECI informatics solutions. We expect the transaction to close at the end of 2025.
With Bridgefield's support and building on our 40+ year legacy of growth and innovation in emergency medical technology, the Emergency Care business will continue passionately pursuing our mission of saving lives, lowering the cost of healthcare, and advancing the science of resuscitation while serving the public access AED, EMS, military, and hospital market segments.
Electrical Designer
Be an integral part of the Emergency Care and Resuscitation (ECR) R&D Hardware team, actively participating in cardiac defibrillator product development. ECR team has a broad product portfolio of advanced life support solutions, automated external defibrillators, monitoring, and data management solutions. Our mission is to design, produce, and deliver every solution as if the life of someone we love depends on it. Every day, we empower and enable our customers - from clinicians to paramedics, first responders to the everyman - to save lives using our innovative, market-leading technology.
We are seeking a passionate Electrical Designer to join us as we strengthen our product portfolio, expand our services and solutions, and introduce game-changing technology to the market. This team member will be responsible for working collaboratively with a team of cross-functional engineers.
Your role:

• Responsible for providing post-launch support of printed circuit board assemblies (PCBA) and electrical components. The successful candidate will also assume a leadership role in the planning of complex technical projects, as well as providing guidance and mentoring to junior-level engineers and technicians.
• Collaboratively co-create, define, execute, and maintain the EMC System strategy EC Systems.
• Take ownership of the System-level EMC Risk Management file, crafting and maintaining system-level EMC & monitoring compliance evidence.
• Focus on Value Analysis and Value Engineering (VAVE), sustaining engineering, and supplier transfer projects for Philips Healthcare products.
• Responsible for Electrical engineering support for lifecycle/sustaining projects involving electromechanical systems in both production and after-market phases. Activities include but are not limited to Root Cause Analysis, proposal and development of creative design solutions, as well as the support of verification and validation (V&V) activities required for their implementation.
• Responsibilities will also include the reverse engineering and detailed design of legacy PCBA and electrical components and subsystems.
• Support the production of existing systems by investigating the root cause of issues found in manufacturing and early-life field failures experienced by customers / end users.
• Conceive, develop, and implement creative design solutions to improve manufacturability and prevent the recurrence of defects.
• Create and modify PCBA design packages and electrical component specifications, including but not limited to electrical circuit schematics, PCBA manufacturing specification packages, and wire harness / cable assembly specifications for products currently in production phase.
• Review and approve PCBA design packages for release to contract manufacturers.
• Reverse engineer and create PCBA design specification packages for legacy products in post-production phase.
• Complete engineering modeling and analysis of electrical systems.
• Employ empirical test methods to verify design performance and then document the results.
• Collaborate across technical disciplines to achieve project and program deliverables. These include, but are not limited to:

• Electrical, Software, Systems, Experience Design, Design Transfer, Quality, Regulatory personnel.
• Contract design firms, contract manufacturing firms.
• Drive/execute continuous improvement projects related to design implementation, manufacturing, product quality, and field reliability.
• Drive/execute strategic projects aligned with business goals that meet internal stakeholder objectives as well as electrical engineering design requirements.
• Contributes to technology roadmaps and other strategic related activities.
• Provides technical leadership to ensure overall product development success.

You're the right fit if:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Electronics. Master's degree is preferred.
• Total 3+ years' experience with a Minimum of 1 year of experience in the medical device or other similar industry.
• Demonstrated knowledge of global quality and regulatory environment for medical devices, including FDA CFR 21 part 820.30 and IEC 60601-1-1 (CE mark), ISO 13485, and risk management requirements and development dependencies.
• Your knowledge extends to EMC standards, regulatory compliance, and adept handling of challenges with external bodies. You demonstrate proficiency in EMC Risk Management and have hands-on experience in new product introduction and life-cycle development within the industry. Moreover, you have experience working in a global setting.
• Demonstrated proficiency in analog schematics and PCBA layout design.
• Demonstrated proficiency with state-of-the-art electrical CAD software packages; Siemens EDA (formerly Mentor Graphics) is preferred.
• Expertise in digital circuit design is a plus.
• Proficiency in the use of laboratory equipment for testing and debugging. PCBA's (oscilloscope, function generator, data acquisition tools, digital multimeter, I2C/SPI analyzer, CAN analyzer).
• Experience with design and debugging for compliance with industry EMI/EMC and ESD standards.
• Experience with design and debugging of ADC, DAC, and signal conditioning circuitry.
• Demonstrated proficiency in PCBA design for quality & reliability methodologies, including derating analysis, DFMEA, Monte Carlo analysis, and HALT/HASS is required.
• Understanding and application of Design for Manufacturing (DfM) and Design for Assembly (DfA) principles as they relate to PCBA design.
• Detailed knowledge of PCBA defect investigation methods and tools.
• Knowledge and application of statistical methods for testing and data analysis.
• Experience with international medical Quality and Regulatory standards (e.g., IEC, FDA, UL, CE, etc.) is preferred.
• Proven ability to communicate in both verbal and written formats with technical and non-technical customers, stakeholders, and various levels of management.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint is required; Microsoft Project experience is a plus.
• Experience in designing and assessing compliance to national/international standards.
• Experience with designing fault-tolerant systems.
• Proven ability to communicate in both verbal and written form to technical and non-technical customers, stakeholders, and various levels of management.
• Possess strategic agility/vision: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future concerns.
• Develops and maintains effective relationships and is capable of quickly earning trust and respect.

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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