The Opportunity
The Principal Systems Engineer, Applications is a senior technical leadership role responsible for providing end‐to‐end systems engineering oversight across Cochlear's application‐level systems. You will lead and grow a team of systems engineers while acting as a technical authority, shaping system design decisions that span software, firmware, hardware and clinical applications within a highly regulated medical device environment.
Responsibilities
* Lead and develop a team of systems engineers, building capability, engagement and accountability through performance management and coaching.
* Provide technical leadership across application‐level systems, ensuring robust system decomposition, requirements management and traceability.
* Lead system‐level design decisions, issue resolution and technical trade‐offs in complex and ambiguous environments.
* Ensure systems engineering activities comply with regulatory and quality requirements including ISO13485, ISO14971, IEC60601 and Cochlear QMS.
* Drive alignment of application‐level systems with broader product architectures, ensuring interoperability across system boundaries.
* Champion systems thinking and best practices across the product lifecycle, influencing cross‐functional teams and senior leaders.
* Support product family engineering by guiding system configuration, variant management and architectural reuse where appropriate.
* Act as a trusted technical advisor and escalation point for complex system challenges.
Qualifications
* Extensive experience in systems engineering across complex, multi‐component products in regulated environments.
* Proven people‐leadership capability, including performance management, capability development and team building.
* Strong knowledge of systems engineering methodologies, requirements management, and verification frameworks.
* Experience working within medical device regulatory and quality standards (ISO13485, ISO14971, IEC60601 or equivalent).
* Ability to lead technical decision‐making under ambiguity, balancing detailed analysis with strategic perspective.
* Strong influencing and communication skills, with experience partnering across engineering, project and leadership teams.
What Would Make You Stand Out
Exposure to application‐level architectures within embedded or medical device ecosystems, combined with experience driving product family engineering or architectural reuse strategies across complex product portfolios.
Why This Role Is For You
This role is for a systems engineering leader who wants to shape technical direction at scale. You'll build and mentor teams, influence long‐term product architecture, and solve complex problems that directly enable life‐changing hearing solutions for recipients around the world.
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