Systems Engineer

At Globus Medical, we move with a sense of urgency to deliver innovations that improve the quality of life of patients with musculoskeletal disorders. Our team is inspired by the needs of these patients, and the surgeons and healthcare providers who treat them. We embrace a culture of exceptional response by partnering with researchers and educators to transform clinical insights into tangible solutions. Our solutions improve the techniques and outcomes of surgery so patients can resume their lives as quickly as possible. 

Position Summary:

We are seeking a Systems Engineer who will play a critical role in defining, integrating, and validating complex medical robotic systems. This role goes beyond traditional requirements management—you will own system-level behavior, ensuring that software, hardware, robotics, and imaging components work together seamlessly.

You will operate at the intersection of disciplines, driving system architecture, analyzing performance, and resolving cross-functional challenges. This position requires strong technical depth, systems thinking, and the ability to translate between engineering, clinical, and regulatory domains.

Essential Functions:

System Architecture & Integration

• Define and maintain system-level architecture across software, hardware, and robotic subsystems

• Own system interfaces, data flow, and interactions between services, devices, and user interfaces

• Evaluate design tradeoffs across performance, usability, accuracy, and reliability

Robotics, Navigation & Imaging Systems

• Support development and validation of navigation and registration pipelines

• Evaluate tracking systems and coordinate relationships between imaging, patient reference frames, and robotic systems

Coordinate Systems & Accuracy

• Define and validate coordinate transformations across imaging, tracking, and robotic domains

• Develop and analyze system-level accuracy metrics

• Support quantitative performance characterization and statistical analysis of system accuracy

System Performance & Distributed Systems

• Analyze system performance including latency, synchronization, and real-time behavior

• Work across distributed components (microservices, hardware interfaces, communication protocols such as gRPC, UDP, and serial)

• Identify and mitigate system-level failure modes and edge cases

Verification, Validation & Risk Management

• Define system-level verification and validation strategies, including cadaver studies and quantitative accuracy testing

• Ensure traceability from requirements through verification and validation in alignment with design controls

• Collaborate on risk analysis activities in accordance with ISO 14971

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Coordinate technical activities across software, hardware, clinical, regulatory, and manufacturing teams

• Translate complex technical concepts across disciplines to enable effective decision-making

• Troubleshoot complex system-level issues spanning multiple subsystems

Continuous Improvement

• Drive improvements in system design, development processes, and engineering workflows

• Support root cause analysis and corrective actions for system-level issues observed in testing or the field

Compliance

• Adheres to the letter and spirit of the company Code of Conduct, the AdvaMed Code, MedTech Code, and all other company policies

• Ensures Compliance with applicable governmental laws, rules, and regulations, both in the United States and internationally, by completing introductory and annual training and maintaining knowledge of compliance as it applies to your role

• Represents the company in a professional manner and uphold the highest standards of ethical business practices and socially responsible conduct in all interactions with other employees, customers, suppliers, and other third parties

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Biomedical, Software, or related field)

• 3+ years of experience in complex system development (medical device, robotics, aerospace, or similar)

• Strong understanding of systems engineering principles and product development lifecycle

• Experience working across software and hardware domains

• Ability to decompose complex systems and reason about interactions between subsystems

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work across multidisciplinary teams

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with medical devices and FDA-regulated development processes

• Familiarity with surgical navigation, robotics, or image-guided systems

• Understanding of DICOM, CT imaging, and image processing concepts

• Experience with coordinating systems, geometric transformations, or 3D spatial reasoning

• Exposure to real-time systems, distributed architectures, or hardware communication protocols

• Experience with system-level validation, statistical analysis, or performance characterization

• Familiarity with sensor fusion techniques (e.g., Kalman filtering)

Physical Demands:

The physical demands listed here are representative of those that must be met by and employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl

• Required to regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds

• Required to possess specific visons abilities, including: close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and capacity to adjust focus.

Our Values:

Our Life Moves Us philosophy is built on four values: Passionate About Innovation, Customer Focused, Teamwork, and Driven.

• Passionate about Innovation: Improving patient care by delivering advanced technology to our customers is at the core of what we do. We are passionate in our role in improving the lives of patients by continuously developing better solutions.

• Customer Focused: We listen to our customers’ needs and respond with a sense of urgency.

• Teamwork: Working together, anything is possible. We value every person on our team and treat each other with respect. We are accountable to one another and support each other. Together, we make each other stronger.

• Driven: We pursue our mission with energy and passion. We are nimble, results-oriented and decisive. We overcome obstacles that arise in our quest to deliver solutions that will improve the lives of our customers and patients.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

Globus Medical is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, national origin or citizenship. We are committed to a diverse workforce. We value all employees’ talents and support an environment that is inclusive and respectful.

Other Duties:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.