Senior Electrical Engineer

Job Description

About Cooper Surgical:

Cooper Surgical is a leading fertility and women's healthcare company dedicated to putting time on the side of women, babies, and families at the healthcare moments that matter most in life. As a division of Cooper Companies, we're driven by a unified purpose to enable patients to experience life's beautiful moments. Guided by our shared values - dedicated, innovative, friendly, partners, and do the right thing - our offerings support patients throughout their lifetimes, from contraception to fertility and birth solutions, to women's and family care, and beyond.

We currently offer over 600 clinically relevant medical devices to healthcare providers, including testing and treatment options, as well as an innovative suite of assisted reproductive technology and genomic testing solutions. Learn more at

Job Summary:

The Senior Electrical Engineer R&D is a highly technical leadership role within Cooper Surgical's R&D Product Engineering group. The position focuses on the design and development of advanced electrical and electronic systems supporting product upgrades, line extensions, and sustaining initiatives. The scope includes complex electro-mechanical connected systems and devices used in In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF) and Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART). Additionally, the role offers opportunities to contribute to surgical devices and instruments across the broader women's health domain, including Obstetrics and Gynecology (OBGYN).

Cooper Surgical's integrated approach-combining Front-End Innovation, New Product Development, and Product Engineering-creates a dynamic environment for R&D engineers. This role provides the unique opportunity to engage in end-to-end product development, from user-centric concept generation through rigorous engineering and testing, culminating in successful market launch and ongoing product support.

Organizational Impact:

The Senior Electrical Engineer's role is expected to deliver on committed targets with major impact on the department results as it relates to design and development of electrical and electronic solutions for complex electro-mechanical systems. This is a lead technical role expected to work with limited oversight including responsibilities for managing projects and work streams that sometimes span even beyond electrical engineering domain.

The Engineer in this role is expected to interface with external suppliers, development partners, and user community to come up with robust designs and solutions.

Responsibilities

Essential Functions & Accountabilities:

• Formulate and deliver electrical / electronic architecture and hands on development of electrical circuit schematics for complex electromechanical systems and analyze / simulate design to understand key parameters and sensitivities. Establish design feasibility by testing circuits and demonstrating statistical capability for critical functions.
• Design and de-bug electrical systems which comply to 60601 EMC and Safety requirements.
• Test and characterize complex PCB functional blocks in support of firmware development. Run firmware to enable de-bugging code and circuit. Implement firmware changes in test environment to confirm solutions.
• Drive medical device Design Control compliance by ensuring that all applicable safety, quality and regulatory guidelines and policies are followed to develop safe and effective electrical systems. Drive, coach and/or oversee definition of design input (i.e., product requirements) and technical strategies for an adequate verification and validation approach.
• Create formal Verification test protocols, run tests, and write Verification test reports.
• Aid and drive an effective cross-functional collaboration ensuring timely and efficient delivery of target business outcomes. Accountable to timely project plan deliverables in cross functional teams utilizing Cooper Surgical New Product Introduction (NPI) process.
• Coach team members and collaborators in design control processes and best practices. Lead and mentor interns and junior engineers.
• Manage and mentor interns
• Communicate key technical content to parties within and outside of own function (R&D). May have responsibility for communicating with parties external to the organization and managing external development partners to meet project deliverables on time.
• Drive improvement, refinement and consistent global implementation of electrical engineering best practices.

Qualifications

Qualifications

Knowledge,

Skills and Abilities

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• Track record and extensive R&D experience relating to electronics in medical device development and fabrication of complex electro-mechanical systems, mechatronic, robotic and/or IT/connected systems.
• Track record and deep understanding of development approaches and strategies for effective execution and delivery of complex medical device programs.
• Experience with electronics, PCB, and related manufacturing techniques common to medical devices.
• An outcome focused mindset including…