Electrical Development Principal Engineer I

At Zimmer Biomet, we believe in pushing the boundaries of innovation and driving our mission forward. As a global medical technology leader for nearly 100 years, a patient’s mobility is enhanced by a Zimmer Biomet product or technology every 8 seconds.

As a Zimmer Biomet team member, you will share in our commitment to providing mobility and renewed life to people around the world. To support our talent team, we focus on development opportunities, robust employee resource groups (ERGs), a flexible working environment, location specific competitive total rewards, wellness incentives and a culture of recognition and performance awards. We are committed to creating an environment where every team member feels included, respected, empowered and recognised.

What You Can Expect

How You'll Create Impact

• Understand relevant medical electrical standards and regulations.
• Prepare and review information for invention disclosures and patents.
• Work with cross-functional team members to produce and inspect prototypes for preliminary evaluations, design verification and validation, and process validation.
• Create hardware specifications that define what the design is intended to do and how the design achieves this, accounting for manufacturability, in-circuit testability and inspectability.
• Identify critical product features for quality control inspection plans.
• Evaluate, verify and validate product designs relative to design requirements.
• Support Quality, Sourcing and Manufacturing teams during design transfer to production.
• Develop new test methods and/or predictive modeling as required, and complete test method validations.
• Author, review, present and manage approval of design control and risk management documentation.
• Identify and communicate project risks, determine appropriate contingency plans, and obtain supervisor approval to implement them.
• Stay current on product performance by reviewing registry data and journal articles.
• Train and mentor less experienced colleagues on product design and development.
• Provide technical support for launched products.
• Identify and develop new technologies and incorporates these in product designs leading teams with SME expertise.

What Makes You Stand Out

Must have 5 years of experience in job offered or related position.

Must have 5 years of experience with the following: Electrical/hardware product design and development execution with a multi-disciplinary project team from user need identification/concept ideation through commercialization; Developing medical electrical devices particularly orthopedic implants and/or instruments; Medical device regulatory requirements and industry/regulatory body recognized technical product standards; Utilizing hardware and software testing; Executing board bring-ups by using advanced debugging and troubleshooting techniques required.

Must have 3 years of experience with the following: Various electrical/hardware manufacturing processes (including component selection, printed circuit board manufacturing, printed circuit board assembly, EOL strategy) and material science for application in new product development; Designing and testing of printed circuit board assemblies for embedded and electrical systems using an enterprise level EDA package such as Siemens EDA (Mentor Graphics) or Altium; Designing hardware interfaces.

Must have 2 years of experience with the following: board level EMC design, supporting product level EMC test and EMC issue resolution required through certification; and FPGA/CPLD design with VHDL (or Verilog) language.

Your Background

Physical Requirements

Travel Expectations

Role requires 5% of domestic travel. Role requires 5 days per week on-site.

EOE/M/F/Vet/Disability