Senior Design Quality Engineer

Career-defining. Life-changing.

At iRhythm, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your skills and your career while impacting the lives of people around the world. iRhythm is shaping a future where everyone, everywhere can access the best possible cardiac health solutions. Every day, we collaborate, create, and constantly reimagine what’s possible. We think big and move fast, driven by our commitment to put patients first and improve lives.

We need builders like you. Curious and innovative problem solvers looking for the chance to meaningfully shape the future of cardiac health, our company, and your career

About This Role:

A Senior Design Quality Engineer is responsible for supporting product development teams  this role you will provide hands-on technical engineering support from concept through commercialization and post-market evaluation. The Senior Design Quality Engineer serves as a core team member on cross-functional hardware, firmware, stand-alone software product development projects and provide expertise and guidance to the team on design control and risk management.

In this position, you will play a key role in ensuring that products meet quality standards consistent with iRhythm’s quality processes, and all external design control and regulatory requirements.

This position is hybrid in either San Francisco or Cypress, CA (Orange County) with a weekly onsite requirement of 2 days per week

What you’ll be doing :

Contribute to the planning and execution of design controls, risk management, and design verification and validation for iRhythm products.

Participate and support the development of product design history file and ensure compliance to internal processes and external standards and regulations.

Partner with engineering to define design inputs, design outputs, and traceability matrices.

Contribute to the strategy and execution of risk-based design verification and validation.

Participate and support the development of product risk management file, to examine and assess the product risks associated with user, design, process, and supplier.

Review design architectures, selections, requirements, and drawings from early design concepts.

Apply knowledge of IEC 60601, IEC 62366, and IEC 62304 to product development projects.

Serve as a technical resource for assessing validation requirements, solving test-related problems, and developing preventive strategies.

Perform and lead risk assessments in support of verification and validation activities

Assist technical teams in the assessment of design changes; including assessment, planning, verification and validation of the change and documentation as required.

Produce technical reports to support product changes or quality assurance investigations.

Support internal and external audits, including preparation and direct interaction with auditors.

Perform other quality-related duties as assigned.

What We Need To See Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software, Computer, Electrical, Mechanical or Biomedical Engineering.

Minimum of 5 years of experience in Quality Assurance of class II or III products with embedded software in the medical device field.

Demonstrated competency of 21 CFR 820, ISO
13485, ISO
14971 and other international standards.

Solid understanding of design control and risk management from early design and development through commercialization.

Demonstrated experience with electromechanical systems from concept through launch is preferred.

Proficiency in using tools for documentation, defect tracking, and test management (e.g., Jira).Able to navigate the quality system with minimal oversight on projects

Ways to Stand Out Understands and can subsequently explain complex quality details to non-experts.

Exceptional organizational skills.

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