iRhythm is a leading digital healthcare company that creates trusted solutions that detect, predict, and prevent disease. Combining wearable biosensors and cloud-based data analytics with powerful proprietary algorithms, iRhythm distills data from millions of heartbeats into clinically actionable information. Through a relentless focus on patient care, iRhythm’s vision is to deliver better data, better insights, and better health for all.
Director, Systems Engineering
Location
United States
Posted
17 days ago
Salary
$182K - $237K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Director, Systems Engineering
iRhythm Technologies, Inc.
Role Description iRhythm is a leading designer and manufacturer of ambulatory cardiac monitoring wearable technologies, providing an end-to-end service that delivers a best-in-class wear experience, high reliability, and strong clinical value for patients and healthcare providers. At iRhythm, we start by solving for the patient and execute by thinking big and going fast, leading with integrity, collaborating to win, and always striving for better. To continue advancing this mission, we are seeking a Director, Systems Engineering to join our organization, reporting to the Vice President of Product Development. This leader will oversee the Systems Engineering and Test functions within a regulated medical device product development environment. The Director will provide strategic direction, technical leadership, and organizational capability-building across new product development and lifecycle management for connected cardiac monitoring technologies. This role will ensure teams apply disciplined systems engineering practices, including: - Requirements management - Architecture definition - Interface control - Risk management - Verification strategy - Design controls - Traceability This leader will bring industry best practices into the organization, strengthen engineering rigor, and help ensure iRhythm’s products remain safe, effective, scalable, and compliant throughout their lifecycle. Responsibilities - Lead, develop, and mentor multidisciplinary Systems Engineering and Test teams supporting product development of cardiac diagnostic technologies from concept through commercial launch, as well as sustaining and lifecycle engineering activities. - Own functional strategy, execution priorities, resource planning, and operating model for Systems Engineering, ensuring alignment with business priorities and portfolio roadmaps. - Serve as an effective change agent by driving adoption of improved engineering processes, tools, and best practices while maintaining team engagement, compliance standards, and organizational momentum. - Lead system-level requirements management, ensuring user needs are translated into clear, testable, traceable, risk-informed product, system, subsystem, software, hardware, firmware, and verification requirements. - Communicate project status, risks, budget, resource needs, and execution priorities to executive leadership in a clear, concise, and actionable manner. - Provide leadership support of external vendor partnerships, engineering evaluations, and verification testing of design changes as required. - Partner cross-functionally with RA/QA, Product Management, Operations, Clinical, Manufacturing, and R&D functions to ensure design inputs and outputs meet regulatory, quality, customer, patient, user, and business needs. - Sponsor a Systems Engineering community of practice, bringing industry best practices, training, standards awareness, and engagement with the broader systems engineering community (INCOSE, AAMI, MDIC, etc). - Provide key planning inputs to ensure resource management, timelines, and budgets meet program and business needs. - Provide oversight and targeted participation in QMS improvement initiatives, including DOP/SOP authoring and maintenance, to help ensure engineering processes are robust, efficient, compliant, and executable. - Support regulatory inquiries, audits, inspections, and technical discussions, as required. Qualifications - BS in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering or related engineering degree; MS/MBA a plus - 15+ years in regulated medical device development (Class II/III Connected with deep experience in Systems Engineering across NPI and sustaining/lifecycle in regulated manufacturing environments) - 8+ years of people leadership managing and developing multidisciplinary engineering teams (Systems Engineering; HW/FW/SW/mechanical integration) - Expertise in systems engineering best practices: user needs → system/subsystem requirements, architecture, interface definition/control, requirements traceability, and configuration management. - Experience developing medical device platforms that include hardware, firmware and tools/fixtures that interface with devices and/or data in a safe and secure way. - Working knowledge of applicable regulatory standards and requirements, including FDA QMSR/21 CFR Part 820, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, IEC 62304, IEC 62366, and IEC 60601 as applicable. - Proven leadership of system-level risk management and design change execution in medical device development, including hazard analysis, dFMEA/pFMEA/uFMEA, impact assessments, V&V/regulatory strategy alignment, and design transfer support. - Proven ownership of verification strategy and execution, including test planning, protocol/report oversight, coverage and traceability management, and ensuring robust evidence for product releases and design changes. - Strong executive communication and cross-functional leadership, including vendor/partner governance, prioritization across multiple programs, and structured problem-solving (RCA/CAPA support) - Experience supporting global regulatory submissions and responses, including FDA, EU MDR, and international submissions, with technical content and objective evidence. Ways to Stand Out - Prior experience supporting product development and systems engineering validation, or commercialization of cardiology, metabolic disease, diagnostic, or medical device technologies within regulated healthcare environments preferred. - Working knowledge of AI-enabled tools and responsible-use practices within FDA-regulated medical device development environments - Proven track record of delivery excellence; project management and organization skills - Relevant certifications such as INCOSE ASEP/CSEP/ESEP or Lean/Six Sigma Location - On-site / hybrid / remote - Available for up to 25% domestic travel, primarily to San Francisco Bay Area or Southern California. FLSA Status Exempt Compensation Actual compensation may vary depending on job-related factors including knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. Estimated Pay Range: $182,000.00 - $237,000.00 Inclusivity Statement As a part of our core values, we ensure an inclusive workforce. We welcome and celebrate people of all backgrounds, experiences, skills, and perspectives. iRhythm Technologies, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We will consider for employment all qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with all applicable laws. Accommodations iRhythm provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in job application procedures, including those who may have any difficulty using our online system. If you need such an accommodation, you may contact us at taops@irhythmtech.com. Fraud Warning There have been instances where individuals not associated with iRhythm have impersonated iRhythm employees pretending to be involved in the iRhythm recruiting process, or created postings for positions that do not exist. Please note that all open positions will always be shown here on the iRhythm Careers page, and all communications regarding the application, interview and hiring process will come from a @irhythmtech.com email address. Please check any communications to be sure they come directly from @irhythmtech.com email address. If you believe you have been the victim of an imposter or want to confirm that the person you are communicating with is legitimate, please contact taops@irhythmtech.com. Written offers of employment will be extended in a formal offer letter from an @irhythmtech.com email address ONLY.
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