Sr SW Systems Engineer at Dexcom in San Diego, California

Job Description:

About Dexcom:

Dexcom, Inc. empowers people to take control of diabetes through innovative continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems. Headquartered in San Diego, California, Dexcom has emerged as a leader of diabetes care technology. By listening to the needs of users, caregivers, and providers, Dexcom simplifies and improves diabetes management around the world.

Position Summary:

As a Sr SW Systems Engineer on the Manufacturing Software Team at Dexcom, you will plan and generate manufacturing software test plans and protocol based on the software system requirement, design and perform automated and manual software testing on manufacturing equipment supporting Dexcom's FDA-regulated manufacturing processes.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develops test plans, test cases and test scripts on multiple projects simultaneously.


• Define and enforce the strategies for integration, system and regression testing and test environment during V&V.


• Identify defects and track them from discovery to resolution.


• Work with developers or external vendors to perform root-cause analysis and preliminary problem diagnosis.


• Serve as a liaison between the internal customers (the process engineers, mechanical engineers, and hardware system engineers) and the equipment software development team or external software development vendors.


• Participate in the design review and change control meetings.


• Other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications:

• Typically requires a Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline, and a minimum of 5-8 years related experience or Master's degree and 2-5 years equivalent industry experience or a PhD and 0-2 years experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with manufacturing systems in scope include Ignition SCADA, Allen-Bradley PLCs in addition to manufacturing databases and other custom systems


• Proficient in all software testing phases.


• Understand medical device software development process and participate in efforts to improve SDLC processes.


• Extensive experience working as a quality engineer for product manufacturing software or developing or validating software for product manufacturing cells and stations

• Quick learner and adjust easily to a dynamic, ever-changing environment


• Ability to program in C# or Python


• Good understanding of relational database


• Experience in hardware equipment software


• Knowledge in programmable logic controllers (PLC)


• Experience in FDA regulated software development


• Experience in using document, task, defect, requirement and test case management systems such as Oracle Agile PLM, Jira, Confluence, ValGenesis, etc.


• Expertise in 21 CFR Part 11


• Familiarity with 21 CFR 820 a plus


• Experience with ISA 95 model a strong plus

Travel Required:

• Up to 25%

Functional Description: Technical Individual Contributors

Designs, develops, troubleshoots and debugs software programs for enhancements and new products. Develops software and tools in support of design, infrastructure and technology platforms, including operating systems, compilers, routers, networks, utilities, databases, cloud-based and Internet-related tools. Determines hardware compatibility and/or influences hardware design.

Functional/Business Knowledge:

• Possesses broad understanding of technical principles and theories. Ability to synthesize external data and research findings for application that may impact technical objectives.

Scope:

• Demonstrates successes in technical proficiency and independent thought. Works on complex problems in which 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.

Judgement:

• Exercises good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.


• Normally receives little instruction on day‐to‐day work, general instructions on new assignments.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact Talent Acquisition at talentacquisition@dexcom.com.

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