Principal, R&D Engineer, Maintenance Release Tech Lead
Boston Scientific17 days ago
Maple Grove, MN, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$102k - $194k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own maintenance releases end-to-end, including backlog management, scope, prioritization, execution, release readiness, and transition to deployment.
- Lead technical assessments, define release approaches, make strategic tradeoffs, and coordinate reviews with platform and functional subject matter experts.
- Lead cross-functional teams across software, systems, testing, design assurance, cybersecurity, regulatory, DevOps, field service, and related functions.
- Own integrated release schedules, budgets, milestones, dependencies, resource planning, and delivery tradeoffs.
- Manage verification and validation strategies, change control board activities, defect and anomaly disposition, and release-readiness recommendations.
- Manage technical and project risks, resolve cross-functional conflicts, escalate significant decisions, and communicate status and recommendations to leadership.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in software engineering, electrical engineering, biomedical engineering, systems engineering, computer science, or a related technical field.
- At least 7 years of experience developing and/or maintaining complex products in an engineering environment.
- Demonstrated ability to lead high-performing cross-functional technical teams through complex product changes and technical problem-solving.
- Strong technical and systems-level understanding of complex software-enabled products and product architectures.
- Knowledge of medical device design controls, change control, risk management, cybersecurity, and verification and validation practices.
- Ability to make technical tradeoffs, manage ambiguity, drive decisions, and communicate technical risks and recommendations to senior leadership.
- Experience working across software, systems, cybersecurity, quality, regulatory, DevOps, and field deployment functions.
- Preferred experience leading software maintenance releases or sustaining engineering for complex medical device systems and working in the medical device industry.
Benefits
- The role requires employees to work on-site at the Maple Grove location.
- Employee benefits are referenced through Boston Scientific’s benefits information site, but specific benefits are not listed.
About Boston Scientific
Boston Scientific designs and manufactures implantable and minimally invasive medical devices used by physicians to diagnose and treat cardiovascular, endoscopic, urological, neurological, and other conditions. It sells these products and related therapies to hospitals and health systems worldwide through a direct sales model and distributors. Founded in 1979 and headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts, it is publicly traded on the NYSE (BSX) with offerings spanning stents, catheters, electrophysiology, and neuromodulation systems.