Job Description

About CooperSurgical

CooperSurgical 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. CooperSurgical is at the forefront of delivering innovative assisted reproductive technology and genomic solutions that enhance the work of ART professionals to the benefit of families. We currently offer over 600 clinically relevant medical devices to women's healthcare providers, including testing and treatment options.

CooperSurgical is a wholly-owned subsidiary of CooperCompanies (Nasdaq: COO). CooperSurgical, headquartered in Trumbull, CT, produces and markets a wide array of products and services for use by women's health care clinicians. More information can be found at .

Responsibilities

This is a senior specialist role responsible for designing, prototyping, and verifying electrical and electronics designs for complex product development initiatives. The Senior Electrical Engineer is expected to work independently under limited supervision and may be responsible for entire project workstreams within electrical engineering domain. This role might provide inputs on R&D technical directions and is expected to collaborate closely with multi-discipline cross- functional teams with significant impact on departmental results. 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.

• Lead development of electrical circuit schematics for complex electromechanical systems and analyze / simulate design to understand key parameters and sensitivities. Establish design feasibility by testing circuit and demonstrating statistical capability for critical functions.
• Design and de-bug electrical systems which complies 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.
• Lead and mentor interns and junior engineers.
• May 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 manage external development partners to meet project deliverables on time.
• May work to influence parties within and outside of the technical function at an operational level regarding policies, practices, and procedures.
• Create formal Verification test protocols, run tests, and write Verification test reports.
• Accountable to timely project plan deliverables in cross functional teams utilizing CooperSurgical New Product Introduction (NPI) process.

Qualifications

• Minimum of Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Engineering or combination of related fields. Advanced degree strongly preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years of closely related experience in development of complex electrical systems.
• Requires deep knowledge of technical area typically obtained through advanced technical education combined with experience. Ability to perform first principles circuit calculations and circuit simulations (e.g. SPICE simulation) to confirm concept feasibility.
• Expertise in analog and digital circuit design and layout using tools like Altium Schematic Capture.
• Strong background in hardware/software integration and hardware debugging using appropriate tools and lab instruments.
• Hands-on craft skills and experience with building circuits, soldering, fixing, servicing and/or fabricating concepts, fixtures, and prototypes.
• Working knowledge of ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers and their common peripherals. Experience with the implementation of real-time operating systems (FreeRTOS, Zephyr, others)
• Experience in SPI, I2C, CAN buses.
• Understanding of statistical methods including Design of Experiments
• Medical device development experience with thorough understanding of Design Control guidelines as defined by FDA, MDR, ISO, CSI, and other standards. Ability to translate User Needs to Design Inputs to creating Verification Test protocols, and perform verification testing, and publish Verification Test report.
• Proven experience in successfully launching complex medical device electronics system to production.
• Programming and software development experience a plus
• Experience in project management and related tools.

As an employee of CooperSurgical, you'll receive an outstanding total compensation plan. As we believe your compensation goes beyond your paycheck, we offer a great compensation package, medical coverage, 401(k), parental leave, fertility benefits, paid time off for vacation, personal, sick and holidays, and multiple other perks and benefits. Please visit us at to learn more about CooperSurgical and the benefits of becoming a member of our team.

To all agencies: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of CooperSurgical about this opening. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee at CooperSurgical via-email, the internet or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of CooperSurgical, unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by CooperSurgical for this position and a valid agreement with CooperSurgical is in place. In the event a candidate who was submitted outside of the CooperSurgical agency engagement process is hired, no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.

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