Senior Design Quality Engineer - Products & Systems

Senior Design Quality Engineer - Products & Systems at Philips

In this role you have the opportunity to define and drive Quality and Reliability targets for IGT Systems medical products, ensuring they meet high-performance standards and reliability expectations. Provide expert guidance and coaching to project teams, offering strategic insights on quality and reliability engineering. Work closely with post-market teams to gather insights from fielded products and collaborate with R&D to implement design improvements that enhance product quality.

Your role:

• Drive and oversee the holistic strategy for patient and user safety, quality, and reliability, ensuring confidence in product and service performance before market release.
• Guide and support R&D teams in driving and implementing the design control processes and best practices from across the industry. Work with the subject matter experts and process owners to improve the processes where required.
• Work with the R&D teams on developing the requirements, test strategies (including statistical sampling methods) and traceability requirements - including usability, reliability, performance, safety and quality.
• Provide strategic oversight of Quality Plan execution, risk management activities, and all design-related processes throughout the product lifecycle.
• Lead quality-related problem-solving initiatives, addressing challenges proactively.
• Leverage post-market performance data to drive necessary design and process improvements in close collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Serve as the subject matter expert for project teams and business functions, advising on Design Control processes and ensuring all design quality requirements meet standards at every project milestone.

You're the right fit if:

• Master’s degree in Electronics Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Science, or a related field.
• Minimum of 12 years of experience in quality engineering, design quality or reliability engineering. Prior experience in R&D is an added advantage.
• Proven experience working within highly regulated environments, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations.
• Skilled in utilizing various analytical and data-driven tools to support quality and reliability processes.
• Strong expertise in risk management and FMEA activities (preferred).
• DfSS Green Belt or Black Belt certification is a plus.
• Strong ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams while effectively engaging and influencing senior-level stakeholders to drive strategic alignment and decision-making.
• Excellent communication skills, problem solving skills and coaching skills.

How we work together
We believe that we are better together than apart. For this office-based team, it means working in-person at least 3 days per week.

About Philips
We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help the lives of others.

Over 125 years ago, Frederik and Gerard Philips started a small light bulb company in Eindhoven. Little did they realize that it would become a global force of innovation, committed to improving billions of lives worldwide. But it did.

Today, Philips is a world leading health technology company with a vision to make life better for people worldwide through meaningful innovation. Making good on this promise depends on our passionate, inspirational, collaborative and diverse team.

We have over 80,000+ brilliant people around the world but are always looking for more. Like-minded, motivated, focused minds to join us in creating a healthier, more connected society while transforming themselves personally and professionally.

Working at Philips is more than a job. It's an experience filled with unexpected moments that will transform you in lasting and positive ways. Help us improve the world for the better while building a career that no one could have planned for. Even you.