Sr Navigation Systems Engineering Manager

Job Function:

R&D Product Development

R&D Software/Systems Engineering

People Leader

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Warsaw, Indiana, United States of America

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We are hiring for Senior Navigation Systems Engineering Manager in a hybrid role to be based out of Raynham or Boston, MA

The Senior Navigation Systems Engineering Manager leads a team of multidisciplinary systems engineers and provides technical and organizational leadership for a complex surgical navigation platform across its full product lifecycle. This role is responsible for ensuring cohesive system behavior across hardware, software, controls, and clinical workflows, applying rigorous systems engineering principles to a safety‑critical medical navigation system.

This position partners closely with commercial, clinical, and product management stakeholders to translate clinical user needs, surgeon workflows, and business objectives into well‑defined system requirements and successful new product introductions. The role ensures that customer, clinical, and regulatory expectations are effectively decomposed into robust, traceable system and subsystem solutions.

The role leads the end‑to‑end requirements flow‑down process, starting with identification and engagement of clinical and business stakeholders, definition of user and system requirements, development of system architecture, and decomposition into clear, testable subsystem requirements. The position drives alignment between system architecture decisions and downstream implementation to ensure performance, safety, reliability, and usability objectives are met.

The Senior Navigation Systems Engineering Manager plays a critical role in regulatory submissions and product releases by leading the planning, execution, and documentation of design control activities in compliance with FDA regulations, ISO 13485, IEC standards, and other applicable regulatory and quality system requirements. This includes ownership of system‑level risk management, requirements traceability, verification strategies, and design reviews.

This role requires close and continuous collaboration with electrical engineering, software, controls, mechanical engineering, clinical, quality, manufacturing, and verification & validation (V&V) teams. The Senior Navigation Systems Engineering Manager ensures cross‑functional integration, resolves technical trade‑offs, and drives system‑level decision‑making across disciplines to deliver a cohesive, compliant, and high‑performing navigation system.

• Lead and develop a multidisciplinary systems engineering team responsible for the definition of system architecture, decomposition of system functionality, and development of clear, testable system‑level and subsystem requirements for a complex surgical navigation platform.
• Own the end‑to‑end requirements lifecycle, ensuring seamless flow‑down and traceability from clinical user needs, surgeon workflows, and business objectives through system, subsystem, hardware, and software requirements, and ultimately through verification and validation.
• Drive close collaboration across hardware, software, controls, mechanical, clinical, and V&V teams to ensure system requirements are technically sound, fully testable, and aligned with real‑world clinical use cases and navigation system performance needs.
• Lead system…