Systems Engineer

At Apricity Robotics we strive to harness the power of AI and robotics to bring the warmth of hope and healing, revolutionizing healthcare and transforming challenging situations into opportunities for growth and progress. Our robot is improving sonographers’ quality of life and improving the quality of ultrasound scans. Our team is differentiated by its expertise in creativity, engineering, and delivering robots with advanced intelligence, dexterity, and care – specifically designed to work alongside people, in existing environments.

Every day, we embrace challenging problems, developing new solutions and practical implementations that make robots intuitive and exceptional co‑workers. We approach our work with passion, making every day an adventure.

We are looking for a seasoned systems engineer to own systems engineering and design assurance for our robotic platform, and to guide our team in building a de‑risked product. This role is located in person in Dublin, Ohio. You will own the system architecture, the requirements that flow through it, the interfaces between subsystems, the risk management file, the verification and validation program, the traceability matrix, and the Design History File.

More than owning those artifacts, you will set how we build: bringing risk‑based thinking into design decisions from the start so that safety, verifiability, and standards conformance are engineered in rather than discovered late.

This is a hands‑on, technically credible role. You will be deep in the design with the engineering team, not waiting at the end to inspect their work, and you will be the person who guides our development to design hazards out and to build to the standards that govern our device. You will report to the VP of Engineering, work shoulder to shoulder with our mechanical, electrical, software, controls, and clinical teams, and partner with our regulatory strategy on the path to 510(k).

As the company grows, this role anchors the systems engineering discipline.

Establish and run the risk‑based design process the engineering team works within, driving identified hazards to documented mitigation before each design freeze so issues surface in design review rather than in V&V or audit.

Translate user and clinical needs into verifiable engineering specifications with defined acceptance criteria, including power budgets, performance targets, weight and dimensional limits, and applied‑force and safety limits that hardware and software build to.

Own the system architecture and author the interface control documents that define every data, power, and mechanical interface across the robotic arm, electronics, firmware, software, and ultrasound system, so integration failures are prevented by design rather than found at bring‑up.

Build and maintain the traceability matrix linking every user need to a system requirement, design output, and test case, with no orphan requirements and complete verification coverage at submission.

Lead risk management under ISO 14971: run hazard analysis and FMEAs, and trace every identified hazard to a verified mitigation, with residual risk reduced to within defined acceptance criteria.

Own the verification and validation program: author and approve protocols and reports, drive execution against the V&V plan, and verify every design output against its design input with documented, traceable results.

Own the Design History File and the design control process, hold design reviews at each phase gate with recorded action closure, and bring the design controls work currently held by outside consultants fully in‑house.

Establish and verify conformance to the applicable standards (the IEC 60601 family, IEC 62304 for software, IEC 62366 for usability, and ISO 14971 for risk), maintaining a documented conformance assessment for each and closing gaps before design freeze.

Lead system integration and bring‑up, root‑causing cross‑domain failures and driving the integrated system to meet its system‑level performance specifications.

Stand up the configuration management, design review, and requirements and test‑management tooling the program runs on,…