Job Title
Software System Engineer
Job Description
The Software System Engineer is responsible for translating stakeholder, user, and product needs into clear, testable, and traceable software requirements, and for ensuring that these requirements are consistently elaborated into system design, software design, integration, verification, and issue resolution activities throughout the product lifecycle. Working under general supervision, the role applies systems engineering and software engineering practices to drive end-to-end development in regulated environments, with particular attention to IEC 62304 compliance, design controls, and product quality. The role collaborates closely with software development, verification, architecture, quality, regulatory, clinical, and project teams in an Agile development context to refine requirements, support sprint-based design decisions, review design outcomes, and ensure timely closure of technical issues and complaints through structured investigation, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and preventive improvements. The role also contributes to modern engineering practices by leveraging AI-assisted and Harness Engineering approaches for requirements elaboration, issue analysis, coding quality, and engineering productivity, while ensuring responsible use, traceability, and compliance.
Job Responsibilities
- Translate stakeholder, user, product, and regulatory needs into system and software requirements that are clear, testable, feasible, and traceable across the full development lifecycle.
- Define, analyze, review, and maintain software requirements, including functional, interface, performance, reliability, safety, security, serviceability, and error-handling requirements.
- Collaborate with software architects and development teams to ensure system intent is correctly translated into software architecture, software design, interface definitions, and integration strategies.
- Coordinate system decomposition, system partitioning, and allocation of requirements to subsystems and software items, ensuring consistency, completeness, and technical coherence.
- Support software development in regulated environments by ensuring development activities, deliverables, and traceability are aligned with IEC 62304, applicable quality procedures, and company design control requirements.
- Operate effectively in Agile development ways of working by managing product backlog, and contributing to sprint planning, design reviews, acceptance discussions, and incremental clarification of requirements and design outcomes.
- Drive investigation of technical issues, anomalies, complaints, and integration problems by reproducing issues, analyzing evidence, identifying root causes, coordinating resolution, and supporting effective corrective and preventive actions.
- Contribute to risk management, verification planning, and integration planning by ensuring that requirements and design decisions are adequately covered by verification and that identified risks are translated into engineering actions.
- Review system and software design proposals, identify requirement conflicts and design trade-offs, and recommend improvements to enhance reliability, maintainability, usability, performance, and product quality.
- Contribute to software and system integration readiness by clarifying interfaces, supporting end-to-end scenarios, and helping teams define conditions for successful verification, validation, release, and maintenance.
- Apply modern engineering practices, including Harness Engineering and AI-assisted coding or analysis approaches, to improve requirement elaboration, design reviews, defect investigation, and engineering productivity, while adhering to approved governance, coding standards, security, and compliance expectations.
Required Qualifications
Education
Bachelor's / Master's Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent.
Work Experience
- Minimum 3 years of experience in System Engineering, Software Engineering, System Design, Software Design, System Integration, or equivalent.
- Experience in regulated product development, medical software, or similar quality-critical domains is preferred.
- Demonstrated experience in requirements engineering, technical issue investigation, root cause analysis, and cross-functional collaboration in Agile development environments is expected.
- Familiarity with IEC 62304, design controls, traceability, and modern AI-assisted engineering practices such as Harness Engineering or structured AI coding support is highly desirable.
Certifications
Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP), Certified Product Owner, or equivalent system, software development certification is a plus.
Preferred Skills (Technical/Functional Skills)
- Systems Engineering and Software Engineering
- Requirements Engineering, Traceability, and Interface Definition
- System Design, Software Design, and Systems Integration
- IEC 62304 and regulated software development lifecycle practices
- Agile development methods and cross-functional product development collaboration
- Technical problem solving, root cause analysis, and complaint or issue investigation
- Risk Management, Verification Planning, and Quality Specifications
- Regulatory Requirements, Cybersecurity, and Medical Software awareness
- Product Development Lifecycle Management and Continuous Improvement
- Harness Engineering, AI-assisted engineering workflows, and structured AI coding practices
- Ability to use AI-assisted tools responsibly for requirement documentation, design support, coding quality, and issue analysis with appropriate governance and review
- Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills
How we work together
We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.
Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities.
Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.
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About Philips
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