Published: October 14, 2024 - The Design Assurance Engineer collaborates with product development, clinical, marketing, and regulatory teams to ensure the smooth execution of NPD projects. Leads the development and execution of Design Verification/Validation protocols and product risk management activities, including FMEA analysis. Works closely with engineering teams to translate design requirements into manufacturable solutions, ensuring quality representation throughout all project phases.
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1. Design Assurance Engineer, Innovatech Solutions, Austin, TX
Job Summary:
- Develop statistically-based sampling plans for Design Verification and Validation, Process Validation, or other studies as deemed
- Supporting staff quality engineering initiatives
- Test method validation (TMV) and report writing
- Design validation, and Design verification
- Recognized as an expert in work group and across functions.
- Works on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors.
- Exercises judgment within broadly defined practices and policies in selecting methods techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
- Lead and coordinate, review and approve DHF documentation created by internal and external partners, including product requirements, schematics, code, verification and validation test strategy, protocols and reports.
- Outline compliance and testing, perform risk management, and ensure product development activities are in line with anticipated regulatory requirements
Skills on Resume:
- Sampling Plan Development (Hard Skills)
- Quality Engineering Support (Soft Skills)
- Test Method Validation (Hard Skills)
- Design Validation and Verification (Hard Skills)
- Cross-functional Expertise (Soft Skills)
- Complex Problem Solving (Soft Skills)
- DHF Documentation Review (Hard Skills)
- Risk Management and Compliance (Hard Skills)
2. Design Assurance Engineer, MicroTech Systems, Raleigh, NC
Job Summary:
- Perform tests according to various protocol requirements
- Develop supplier quality specifications, sampling plans, and vendor qualification
- Responsible for FMEA, DFMEA, risk assessment, and risk management activities
- Develop and implement initial processes for product development and manufacturing
- Collaborate with regulatory to define relevant, measurable, valid product specifications
- Adhere to GMP, QSR, ISO, MDD, MDR, CMDCAS, and HIPPA quality system practices
- Establish and monitors product development quality plans and support manufacturing activities
- Ensure compliance with design controls, valid product specifications, develop product test methods
- Assist in defining and implementing design assurance controls throughout the product development life cycle
- Perform final release of products upon completion of design control system activities (e.g., phase review, design history file (DHF))
- Document pre-clinical testing reports (bench, animal, biocompatibility, sterilization, etc.) to ensure alignment with regulatory expectations
- Define activities (plans, protocols, test methods, risk analyses, FMEA, etc.) to ensure adherence to regulatory expectations, the established Quality System and any required international standards
Skills on Resume:
- Test Execution (Hard Skills)
- Supplier Quality Management (Hard Skills)
- FMEA and Risk Management (Hard Skills)
- Process Development (Hard Skills)
- Regulatory Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Compliance with Standards (Hard Skills)
- Product Development Quality (Hard Skills)
- Design Control Compliance (Hard Skills)
3. Design Assurance Engineer, Quantum Devices, Boulder, CO
Job Summary:
- Contribute quality and compliance expertise and guidance to teams responsible for addressing specific quality issues.
- Establish effective review techniques, ensure audit compliance.
- Provide oversight and monitoring of all phases of design to ensure compliance and timely resolution. Support and lead FMEA/Risk Management processes and activities.
- Work with business process owners to devise appropriate metrics to improve product and process.
- Establish Quality Assurance process metrics.
- Trend, analyze, and report on quality data, develop recommendations based on data analysis.
- Support best practices for problem solving, root cause analysis, and solution selection tools
- Is responsible for the achievement of the technical goal/commitment of a project
- Analyze project ideas regarding realization options, evaluate impact on running projects
- Detects common architectural and functional components in order to enable reuse and maintainability
- Cooperate and guide business partners/ suppliers on national/international level
Skills on Resume:
- Quality Expertise (Hard Skills)
- Audit Compliance (Hard Skills)
- Design Oversight (Hard Skills)
- Risk Management (Hard Skills)
- Process Metrics (Hard Skills)
- Data Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Problem Solving (Soft Skills)
- Partner Collaboration (Soft Skills)
4. Design Assurance Engineer, Apex Medical Devices, Phoenix, AZ
Job Summary:
- Carrying out all Design Assurance activities of assigned product(s)/product line(s) as per the global system engineering process
- Assure the quality of design implementations on system, subsystem and component level across the DXR portfolio.
- Support several areas of system engineering techniques in system and subsystem programs across all DXR sites to achieve high quality and reliability.
- Support Defining and consistent improvement of quality and reliability engineering procedures for DXR.
- Support in creating, maintaining, and governing the usage of general design guides for DXR X-ray systems.
- Support the Design Assurance Leader / System Designer / Architects of the system / Sub-system programs in the conduct of design reviews.
- Ensure as Independent reviewer that development activities are in adherence to acceptable design principles.
- Assure adherence to the design control process for design activities.
- Establish processes to ensure findings, risks, recommendations and outcomes are clearly documented and communicated.
- Ensure proper requirements capturing, progression towards design, verification, validation and tractability during development cycle and life cycle management.
- Facilitate the identification and deployment of resources to investigate and resolve issues in a timely and effective manner.
Skills on Resume:
- Design Assurance (Hard Skills)
- System Engineering Techniques (Hard Skills)
- Quality and Reliability Assurance (Hard Skills)
- Design Guide Maintenance (Hard Skills)
- Design Review Support (Soft Skills)
- Independent Design Review (Hard Skills)
- Design Control Process Adherence (Hard Skills)
- Issue Resolution Facilitation (Soft Skills)
5. Design Assurance Engineer, BioMed Engineering, Tampa, FL
Job Summary:
- Lead/Co-ordinate phase reviews to ensure design control compliance
- Manage/Co-ordinate/Lead the technical documentation requirements of the DHF
- Provide leadership and ownership of the risk management process
- Facilitate FMEA (or equivalent) for engineering control phases
- Support/lead the solving of complex issues through detailed research and analysis of internal/external information
- Prepare and implementation the DA strategy for design verification & validation activity
- Maintain and update control and development procedures to ensure continued compliance with external standards (e.g. ISO13485, 21 CFR 820)
- Provide 'Assurance' representation at all 3rd party audits
- Provide 'Assurance' support to all suppliers/contract manufacturers
Skills on Resume:
- Design Control Compliance (Hard Skills)
- Technical Documentation Management (Hard Skills)
- Risk Management Leadership (Hard Skills)
- FMEA Facilitation (Hard Skills)
- Problem Solving (Soft Skills)
- Design Verification and Validation Strategy (Hard Skills)
- Standards Compliance (Hard Skills)
- Audit Representation (Soft Skills)
6. Design Assurance Engineer, Synergy Technologies, Omaha, NE
Job Summary:
- Responsible for Design Control initiatives to develop appropriate Design History File documents.
- Review and approve new product documentation
- Collaborate with Project Management to optimize Design Control process and develop Sustaining Quality Engineering process.
- Review and approve Design Control documents and protocols.
- Serve as the Design Control expert to organization.
- Develop and deliver Design control training for organization.
- Support Risk Management activities and ensure compliance with standards and regulation
- Ensure that product development projects and changes to existing products are conducted in compliance with the FDA Quality System Regulation, ISO 13485 Regulations, and other applicable standards.
- Participate in continuous improvement of design control process and project management planning.
Skills on Resume:
- Design Control Management (Hard Skills)
- Document Review and Approval (Hard Skills)
- Project Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Design Control Expertise (Hard Skills)
- Training Development (Soft Skills)
- Risk Management (Hard Skills)
- Regulatory Compliance (Hard Skills)
- Continuous Improvement (Soft Skills)
7. Design Assurance Engineer, Precision Medical Solutions, Madison, WI
Job Summary:
- Provide technical and statistical reliability support to Product Development, Manufacturing and Quality organizations
- Assist with major efforts, or phases of projects, to resolve advanced and complex technical and Quality-related problems
- Contribute to New Product Introduction Projects as a core team member and communicate activities to the extended team members of Quality
- Support the product development teams in the adoption and use of best practices, Quality tools, and Design Control methodologies
- Perform Risk Analysis including Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Human Factors/Usability, and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) activities to ensure risks are identified and appropriately addressed
- Support Risk Management activities to ensure design and process shortcomings are identified and appropriately addressed
- Monitor and develop reliability improvements to existing & new designs
- Support Post Market Surveillance in the investigation of product complaints to determine the root cause and recommend appropriate corrective and preventive action to prevent recurrence
- Work with other Groups to maintain an approved internal Quality System that meets the requirements of GMP’s, QSR 21 CFR Part 820 and ISO 13485
- Evaluate quality data and prepare periodic reports to monitor trends.
- Generate, review and approve Engineering and Development Change Orders for Design Assurance
Skills on Resume:
- Technical Support (Hard Skills)
- Statistical Reliability (Hard Skills)
- Complex Problem Solving (Soft Skills)
- Quality Tools Adoption (Hard Skills)
- Risk Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Risk Management (Hard Skills)
- Post Market Surveillance (Hard Skills)
- Cross-functional Collaboration (Soft Skills)
8. Design Assurance Engineer, Vantage Engineering Group, Denver, CO
Job Summary:
- Assure records/files are initiated and maintained in all relevant documentation pertaining to Quality Assurance for the design life cycle.
- Perform Quality Audits to determine the effectiveness of the Quality Program for the design lifecycle, prepare audit reports and support implementation of updates/improvements
- Perform supporting design transfer audits of customer provided designs and design history files for quality, process and design controls as appropriate for related design activities.
- Establish and maintain control over all complex design processes and testing during the design life cycle
- Plan and participate in design reviews to assure that designs assure product quality
- Plan and determine capability of design processes to meet quality requirements
- Establish process controls, surveillance and monitoring procedures to assure product quality
- Analyze reported audit results and coordinate corrective actions for ongoing quality improvement.
- Participate in the timely investigations, disposition and corrective actions to prevent recurrence of process non-conformance. Follow up for completion and measurement of effectiveness
- Plan and coordinate training and education of the design engineering team as it relates to design life cycle processes and overall quality of the design activities.
- Maintain state-of-the-art knowledge by keeping abreast of new regulatory, quality and design techniques and methods by contacts with other industries, current publications and advanced education and membership in professional societies/organizations
Skills on Resume:
- Documentation Management (Hard Skills)
- Quality Auditing (Hard Skills)
- Design Transfer Audits (Hard Skills)
- Process Control (Hard Skills)
- Design Review Participation (Soft Skills)
- Corrective Action Coordination (Hard Skills)
- Training and Education (Soft Skills)
- Regulatory Knowledge (Hard Skills)
9. Design Assurance Engineer, Vertex Innovations, Portland, OR
Job Summary:
- Coordinate and/or support customer led project related risk management activities.
- Coordinate and/or support resolution of regulatory questions and recommend actions required to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
- Assist with the establishment of quality controls over all design processes and testing during the design life cycle.
- Assist in supporting design transfer audits of customer provided designs and design history files for quality, process and design controls as appropriate for related design activities.
- Assist in supporting supplier audits as appropriate for intended use of supplier for quality, process and design controls.
- Support training and education of the design engineering team as it relates to design phases and processes and overall quality of design activities.
- Participate in ongoing education and training in regulatory and quality standards to stay ahead of changes in the various relevant standards and in industry.
- Responsible for the Quality of work to ensure BEI meets, or exceeds Customer Satisfaction.
- Evaluate capability of design processes to meet quality requirements
- Participate in design reviews to assure that designs meet requirements and to assure product quality.
- Meet and discuss problems relative to the design life cycle and regulatory compliance questions.
Skills on Resume:
- Risk Management (Hard Skills)
- Regulatory Compliance (Hard Skills)
- Quality Control (Hard Skills)
- Design Transfer Audits (Hard Skills)
- Supplier Audits (Hard Skills)
- Team Training and Education (Soft Skills)
- Customer Satisfaction (Soft Skills)
- Design Review Participation (Soft Skills)
10. Design Assurance Engineer, AlphaBio Technologies, Salt Lake City, UT
Job Summary:
- Health monitoring defining critical end-to-end telemetry that currently do not have, and require to assess the quality or risk of the Service as a Solution SW
- Includes the monitoring and alerting for symptoms of predictive outages.
- Provide insight into aspects of the customer journey
- Develop currently missing criteria for critical aspects of robust resilient technology such as authentication, licensing etc
- Define KPIs around these customer journey elements.
- Integrate Business Units under a consistent framework for the Deployment and managed services assessment and Reporting process, heavily focused on IT and business operations.
- Establish elements of a Solution SW or SW as a Service Release Process that focuses on Customer Quality
- Provide guidance in the selection and requirements of Chef, Terraform, Kubernetes, Dynatrace or equivalent tools.
Skills on Resume:
- Health Monitoring (Hard Skills)
- Predictive Outage Detection (Hard Skills)
- Customer Journey Analysis (Soft Skills)
- KPI Development (Hard Skills)
- Cross-functional Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- SW Release Process Management (Hard Skills)
- Tool Selection Guidance (Hard Skills)
- IT and Business Operations Integration (Soft Skills)
11. Design Assurance Engineer, Advanced Engineering Systems, Kansas City, MO
Job Summary:
- Drives the identification and proper collection of performance objectives, design requirements, measures and metrics.
- Implements to meet these criteria in collaboration with Operations Engineering, Regulatory Affairs, and other cross-functional partners.
- Ensures DHF completeness
- Supports audits and compliance assessments of the Design History File (DHF) and other program files to ensure quality requirements are met and audit findings are appropriately addressed.
- Support Post Market Surveillance activities by serving as a technical resource for problem investigations to guide root cause analysis and corrective action development.
- Leads DAE activities to improve customer satisfaction and successful achievement of corporate and department quality objectives.
- Maintains an up‑to‑date knowledge in the areas of Quality Assurance, Design Controls, Risk Management, and Statistical Techniques including company products, policies, and procedures.
- Acts as a subject matter expert on these topics within NPD teams.
- Escalates project issues to management level, as warranted.
Skills on Resume:
- Performance Metrics Collection (Hard Skills)
- Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Design History File (DHF) Management (Hard Skills)
- Audit Support (Hard Skills)
- Root Cause Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Customer Satisfaction Improvement (Soft Skills)
- Quality Assurance Expertise (Hard Skills)
- Risk Management (Hard Skills)
12. Design Assurance Engineer, TriPoint Solutions, Indianapolis, IN
Job Summary:
- Works closely with product development engineering, clinical, marketing and regulatory to facilitate the successful planning and execution of NPD projects.
- Collaborates with product development to develop test methodologies required to complete analysis of device designs.
- Contributes to test method validation activities.
- Develops Design Verification/Validation test protocols, execution, and reports
- Leads aging testing protocol development, execution, and reports
- Leads product risk management activities for assigned projects including leading Design and Use Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) and essential requirements analysis.
- Supports and participates in development of process risk management efforts.
- Works with product development engineering and manufacturing engineering to translate design requirements into manufacturing requirements to achieve design for manufacturability.
- Ensures that DAE project activities are completed for each product development phase.
- Represent Quality function in Design and Phase reviews
Skills on Resume:
- Project Management (Soft Skills)
- Test Method Development (Hard Skills)
- Design Verification/Validation (Hard Skills)
- Aging Testing Protocols (Hard Skills)
- Risk Management (Hard Skills)
- Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Manufacturability Translation (Hard Skills)
- Quality Assurance (Hard Skills)
13. Design Assurance Engineer, CoreTech Manufacturing, San Diego, CA
Job Summary:
- Working as part of the Resiliency team, provides all design assurance deliverables required in the sustain process with moderate level of coaching
- Evaluation of the materials, properties and techniques used in production of Zebra's devices or solutions
- Advising design engineering on the selection, application and test of mechanical and /or electronic components and systems for the given changes to the product
- Recommending design or test methods and statistical process control procedures for achieving required levels of product reliability
- Determining reliability requirements of components and systems to achieve company, customer and any governmental agency reliability objectives
- Using statistical methods to design reliability and verification test plans
- Participate in creation and analysis of qualification test plans and results
- Creating and analyzing designed experiments to determine main effects of low complexity device sub-systems to improve designs
- Responsible for quality and reliability sub team activities to support the initiatives of the core development team, program manager or product line management deliverables
- Analyze and approve Engineering changes to production products
- Contributes to innovation efforts by participating actively in brainstorming activities and actively benchmarking externally with other organizations on best practices in design assurance
- Provides product qualification or reliability test support over the life-cycle of the product to support cost saving initiatives, end of life part requalifications, second source requalifications or critical design improvements due to field performance or customer escalations
- Mentor or oversee the work of level 1 or 2 DAE or Technician level team members
- Participate in special projects as a representative of the DAE team or support process improvement activities within the broader function
Skills on Resume:
- Problem-Solving (Soft Skills)
- Material Evaluation (Hard Skills)
- Statistical Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Component and System Testing (Hard Skills)
- Reliability Engineering (Hard Skills)
- Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Mentorship (Soft Skills)
- Process Improvement (Soft Skills)