Hardware Verification Engineer

Change people’s lives and love what you do! Cochlear develops world-leading medical devices that help people hear. As a top 100 medical device company and market-leader in implantable hearing devices, more people choose a Cochlear-branded cochlear implant system than any other. Our employees tell us that the number one reason they enjoy working for Cochlear is the opportunity to make a difference to people’s lives.

Cochlear’s mission is to help people hear and be heard. As the global leader in implantable hearing solutions, Cochlear is dedicated to helping people with moderate to profound hearing loss experience a life full of hearing. We aim to give people the best lifelong hearing experience and access to innovative future technologies. We collaborate with the industry’s best clinical, research and support networks. That’s why more people choose Cochlear than any other hearing implant company. Learn and grow with us as we tackle the most complex challenges in helping more people to hear and experience life’s opportunities.

The Opportunity

Cochlear has an opportunity for a Hardware Verification Engineer (Electrical) to join the Implant and Sound Processors Development team. The successful candidate will be responsible to plan, organize, execute and document Verification & Validation (V&V) tasks to support the product development of Cochlear products. Coupled with maintaining the compliance of products to international standards and regulations.

The incumbent will be required to work closely with global and local (CMY) teams to ensure requirements, standards, safety and reliability of Cochlear products are met.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan verification activities and work closely with the design engineers to understand verification priorities and timelines.

• Follow all relevant procedures and protocols as well as planning on the execution of the verification and write reports when needed.

• Collaborating with the design engineers to develop test methods, design test equipment, write test plans & protocols as well as to debug problems encountered during testing.

• Update and improve protocols based on learnings in ensuring all verification results are appropriately recorded.

• Be actively involved in moderately complex investigations, evaluate alternatives and recommend solutions.

• Prepare, review and perform reliability as well as sustaining engineering activities & reports.

• Perform general engineering tasks needed to sustain Cochlear’s approved products on the market, including engineering evaluations (e.g. fit up checks) and First Off Inspections (FOAs).

• Co-ordinate activities with other teams as needed (e.g. procurement, quality, regulatory, process engineering and manufacturing).

• Work with design authorities and design engineers (where necessary) to perform investigations and develop solutions.

• Update technical documentation including design descriptions and risk management files.

• Raise Change Requests as needed to update documents under change control & manage the process to completion.

Essential Requirements:

• Completed minimum Bachelor’s in Electrical, Microelectronics, Mechatronics Engineering or equivalent.

• Minimum of 1-3 years of experience in product hardware verification within consumer products, medical devices, computer hardware, semiconductors, automotive, defence industry or other regulated industry with exposure working with MNC (multi-national corporation) organization.

• Excellent communication skills in both written and spoken English.

• Knowledge and understanding of electronics and electronic test equipment (e.g. Multimeters, Oscilloscopes, Temperature Chamber Ovens, soldering, lab power supplies, source meter units (SMU), function generators etc).

• Knowledge of testing (e.g. EMC, Radio Frequency (RF) link etc).

• Knowledge of scripting language, e.g. Python with intermediate proficiency would be highly desirable.

• Strong interest in medical device development or safety-critical applications and associated quality regulations.

• Experience with test set-up, executing test protocols, complete test inspection and correctly interpret the results.

• Experience using collaborative software tools e.g. JIRA, Confluence, Windchill or equivalent is highly desirable.

• Awareness of Verification & Validation principles and standards.

• Strong time management skills and ability to work autonomously.

• Good project and stakeholder management skills.

• Proficient in Microsoft Office and other relevant software programs.

How we recognize your contribution?

We want Cochlear to be a place where our people truly enjoy coming to work. Through our internal programs and employee benefits, we aim to create an environment where our people will feel value and supported. Whether your focus is on continuous learning, professional development or simply finding an environment which enables you to thrive whilst balancing family or personal life commitments, then we have several programs in place to support you. Click “Apply” if you are keen to grow with us!

Cochlear Malaysia provides shared services to support Cochlear’s global operations. The growing team of professionals in Malaysia provides critical support in areas such as IT infrastructure and applications, development and testing, business intelligence development and support, procurement, customer service, service and repairs and returned device analysis engineering.

If you feel that you have the skills and experience to be successful in this role and take on new challenges to build your career with Cochlear, please start your application by clicking the apply button below.

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