Senior Manager, Hardware Engineer, OLYSENSE

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Massachusetts, Westborough

Workplace Flexibility:
Hybrid

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The Senior Hardware Engineering Manager, OLYSENSE Hub Platform leads the hardware engineering section responsible for evaluating, integrating, qualifying, sustaining, and evolving commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) computing platforms used as regulated medical device hardware platforms. The role is accountable for delivery of high-quality technical work packages across technology development, product development, production transfer, post-market engineering, and lifecycle management activities.

The Senior Hardware Engineering Manager, OLYSENSE Hub Platform shall ensure state-of-the-art technical excellence in medical-grade computing platform architecture, systems integration, supplier and OEM management, reliability engineering, hardware qualification, and lifecycle sustainment. Unlike a traditional electronics design leadership role, this position emphasizes hardware platform architecture, COTS platform integration, supplier management, reliability, manufacturability, serviceability, and cross-functional execution rather than custom PCB or circuit board design.

The role combines people leadership with senior technical leadership and is expected to operate at the intersection of functional management, platform ownership, and hands‑on technical problem solving

This position will report directly to the Director, Software Engineering Edge and will represent the hardware engineering function for the OLYSENSE Hub platform within the broader SCC Platform engineering organization. The role is accountable for building, mentoring, and maintaining a highly capable hardware platform and systems integration engineering team of approximately 5 to 6 engineers, while ensuring that assigned technical work packages are delivered on target with respect to quality, timing, cost, manufacturability, reliability, compliance, serviceability, and patient safety.

The Senior Hardware Engineering Manager, OLYSENSE Hub Platform is accountable to define and maintain the long-term hardware platform roadmap supporting cloud-connected and on-premises AI-enabled medical device applications. This includes technology refresh planning, component obsolescence mitigation, end-of-life strategies, supplier and OEM alignment, reliability improvement, lifecycle cost optimization, resource and budget planning, and alignment of hardware platform decisions with software, AI, systems, operations, quality, and regulatory priorities.

• Lead hardware engineering strategy and planning for the OLYSENSE Hub platform, including budget, capacity, resources, infrastructure, laboratory capabilities, external engineering support, prototype builds, test equipment, suppliers, and production transfer needs.

• Build, lead, mentor, and develop the Hardware Platform and Systems Integration Engineering team , ensuring effective resource utilization, technical capability development, performance management, and alignment with Olympus business and product objectives.

• Provide technical leadership and accountability for hardware engineering deliverables, including architecture, component selection, interface specifications, verification inputs, test plans, design documentation, manufacturing transfer, lifecycle records, and…