Job Title

Senior System Engineering Manager

Job Description

Senior System Engineering Manager

As our Sr System Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of systems engineers within the Sleep & Respiratory Care segment and combine your technical expertise with leadership skills to advance product safety, drive innovation, and support team development.

Your role:

Lead and manage a multidisciplinary team of systems, reliability, and usability engineers, setting clear expectations and fostering strong systems thinking across new product development and sustaining engineering programs.
Build, mentor, and retain a high performing organization by hiring top talent and coaching systems, reliability, and usability engineers to strengthen technical rigor, systems thinking, and leadership capability.
Translate business and R&D strategy into executable systems engineering plans, staffing models, and priorities, providing clear direction on scope, ownership, and execution.
Serve as the senior technical authority for system level decisions, guiding cross functional teams through architectural, clinical, usability, and product tradeoffs.
Oversee systems engineering activities including product architecture development, system and subsystem requirements definition, interface definition, system level risk analysis, and coordinate system build and integration efforts.
Drive continuous improvement in systems engineering practices by adopting modern tools, digital workflows, and emerging technologies, including AI enabled methods, to improve efficiency, quality, and decision making.

You're the right fit if:

You’ve acquired a minimum of 5 years’ experience in Systems Engineering, with a minimum of 1 year experience leading teams, a proven track record of leading and delivering complex systems projects within FDA regulated medical device/systems environments.
Your skills include systems engineering tools, systems architecture, and product design for electromechanical devices, supported by hands-on experience in electromechanical systems.
You have a Bachelor’s Degree, required, in Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related field. Master’s degree desired, INCOSE certification, preferred.
You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position.
You’re an expert at conveying complex topics to key stakeholders, cross functional teams and leadership.

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.

This is an office role.

About Philips

We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help improve the lives of others.

Philips Transparency Details

The pay range for this position in New Kensington, PA is $126,000 to $202,000.

The actual base pay offered may vary within the posted ranges depending on multiple factors including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, and internal equity.

In addition, other compensation, such as an annual incentive bonus, sales commission or long-term incentives may be offered. Employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive Philips Total Rewards benefits program, which includes a generous PTO, 401k (up to 7% match), HSA (with company contribution), stock purchase plan, education reimbursement and much more. Details about our benefits can be found here.

At Philips, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top end of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each case.

Additional Information

US work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work-authorized visa, now or in the future.

Company relocation benefits will not be provided for this position. For this position, you must reside in or within commuting distance to New Kensington, PA.

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This requisition is expected to stay active for 45 days but may close earlier if a successful candidate is selected or business necessity dictates. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible to ensure consideration.

Philips is an Equal Employment and Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vets and maintains a drug-free workplace.