Sr Systems Design Engineer II

Lead the development of breakthrough technologies that will shape the future of hearing healthcare. As a Senior Systems Engineer at Starkey, you'll drive product architecture and innovation from concept through commercialization, collaborating across engineering, research, and industry partners to deliver cutting-edge hearing aids, software, mobile applications, and AI-enabled solutions that improve millions of lives.

Starkey is a world leader in the manufacturing and distribution of advanced hearing technologies. We are in the business of connecting people and changing lives. Our teams come to work each day focused on ensuring people everywhere have the products and services they need to hear better and live better.

Founded in 1967 by Bill Austin, Starkey is known for our cutting-edge hearing health innovations, industry-leading research and development, and not being afraid to push the edge of what’s possible.

We are headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, have over 5,000 employees in 29 facilities across the globe, and do business in more than 100 markets worldwide.

The primary objective of this position is to lead the development and integration of new innovative capabilities and technologies to Starkey’s products and services. Handle major initiatives that would clearly impact Starkey’s business and collaborate with multiple groups as well as external companies and academia. Responsible for providing strategic vision and leadership in the ideation, architecture, and design of new products and technologies as well as the execution of the associated projects to ensure that they meet the requirements for the overall system including, but not limited to;

hearing aids, accessories, fitting software, mobile applications, their components and sub-systems. Must possess a high-level technical expertise in a variety of fields, creativity, and internal drive to lead cross functional parties. Must be able to technically lead a development project from the ideation phase through execution, working with the development team and various resources throughout the organization.

• Lead, own, drive, and deliver new initiatives for current and future products
  • Manage new product/feature design projects, deliver on time.
  • Create product/feature architecture and design considering the various aspects of the entire system, the user experience, and the business
  • Create system and subsystem design documents (e.g. operational concept, system functionality description, state transition description, sequence diagrams, systems interface description, use cases, verification matrices, etc.).
  • Collaborate with internal and external parties to execute the design, build, and testing of proof of concepts
  • Document risks, motivations and tradeoffs associated with the various technical decisions
  • Ensure that there is alignment among the various products, technologies, roadmaps, and corporate objectives
• Support the strategic vision of the system architecture, including interfaces, infrastructure, the definition of the elements and the relationships among the elements, and partitioning
  • Interact with cross functional groups to ensure desired capabilities are reflected accurately in all relevant documentation
  • Promote structures that facilitate improved performance, reduce interactions, lead to smaller processing footprints, lower current consumption, better experience, lower cost, and improved software architecture
• Interact with potential partners, other functional groups, and customers regarding future products on a regular basis.
• Facilitate communication between Advanced Development and other functional groups.
• Work with outside companies and experts.
• Assist and forming collaborations with external companies.
• Understand and participate in establishing requirements
  • Understand system level requirements impacting hardware, firmware, and software deliverables.
  • Collaborate with others in the organization to define and improve system level requirements.
  • Define, document, and review System level requirements
• Perform other duties commensurate with a “senior” role
  • Demonstrate…