Senior Design Assurance Engineer

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Title: Senior Design Assurance Engineer

Hiring Organization: Connexion Systems & Engineering

Compensation, Benefits, and Employment Type

Duration: Approved until 11/28/2025

Pay rate: $45-$70/hr.

Job Location: Marlborough, MA

Schedule: M-F 1st shift, flexible hours

Job#: bh17700

Job Summary

Provide design assurance support for new product development and on market medical devices. This role will be responsible to facilitate the application of design controls while supporting product development, manufacturing related design changes, maintaining regulatory compliance, implementing improvements for manufacturability and evaluating cost reduction efforts.

Essential Duties

Duties are listed in order of greatest importance. The incumbent may be asked to perform other function-related activities in addition to the below-mentioned responsibilities as reasonably required by business needs.

Participating independently in a new product development project, assuring product inputs are clearly defined and assuring design verification and validation activities are appropriate and compliant to confirm input requirements are met. Test method validation would be an element of assuring verification/validation is acceptable.

Participate independently in doing thorough reviews/audit of Design History File (DHF) documentation for capital and disposable medical devices, including design plans, design inputs/outputs, verification/validation activities, design changes, and design transfer documentation.

Participate independently on thorough reviews/audit Requirements Trace Matrix and assuring the trace matrix is accurate and meeting design control requirements for medical devices.

Participate independently on sustaining product projects, assuring projects is clearly defined and stay on task, confirming product inputs are continuing to be met, and necessary verification, validation, and risk management activities are completed.

Work collaboratively with R&D to coordinate the design elements of Risk Management files for product to assure compliance with applicable standards and internal policies.

Responsible for independently coordinating the Health Risk Assessment team when needed for evaluation of on market product, must demonstrate efficient and effective analysis of situation, including problem definition and impact.

Assess change requests of product for impact to design, determine supporting information required for implementation of changes.

Qualifications

Technical bachelorâ s degree

2-5 yearsâ experience preferably in the medical device industry

Experienced with FDA Quality System Regulations, especially Design Control requirements, ISO 13485 and Medical Device Directive

Experienced with ISO 14971, Risk Management

Familiarity with Usability, Reliability, Electrical Safety, Software, Sterilization, Packaging, and Biocompatibility standards and requirements.

Working knowledge of verification and validation requirements for a regulated product

Working knowledge of requirements analysis, including development of testable and measurable specifications

Ability to effectively work on project teams, including taking leadership role on critical tasks to assure appropriate and timely completion/resolution

Ability to appropriately assess written product and project documentation as the principal advocate for compliance, and ability to effectively communicate assessment

Preferred Skills:

Working knowledge of test method validation, root cause failure analysis, statistical methods, and design of experiment

Physical Demands

A thorough completion of this section is needed for compliance with legal standards such as the Americans with Disabilities Act. The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

Sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls.

Stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

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