Verification Engineer

If you are passionate about electromechanical devices and bring three to five years of experience in Verification Testing, please join our R&D team and ensure our medical devices meet the highest standards of safety and compliance.

You’ll play a key role in verifying the functionality and performance and driving product quality across interdisciplinary development projects.

We are seeking a Verification Engineer R&D to join our team.

Your responsibilities

• Accountable for system and sub-system level verification, ensuring alignment with system architecture, interface specifications, and product requirements.
• Define and own Verification & Validation (V&V) strategies, including creation of V&V Plans and Reports, test case review, SOPs, and test documentation throughout the product lifecycle.
• Responsible for planning and conducting verification and testing, including engineering test protocols, verification protocols, and system acceptance testing.
• Conduct and software integration testing and verify interoperability within a system-of-systems framework.
• Analyze verification data, apply statistical methods, and prepare detailed documentation for regulatory submissions, ensuring precision, reliability, and compliance with standards.
• Coordinate and lead investigations during Verification and Validation, including anomaly resolution, damage analysis, and test method validation.
• Contribute to the verification of cloud-connected and IoT-enabled features as required by product needs.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with System Architects (SA) and R&D engineers to define core requirements, approve deviations, and support SA in system decomposition into subsystems and components for detailed analysis and effective testing.
• Act as technical project leader for verification, guiding the team, and own overall verification status.

Your skills

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, e.g. Software, Computer Science, Biomedical, Electrical, or related fields.
• 3-5 years’ experience in verification testing of electromechanical devices within medical product development.
• Experience with programming language, ideally Python. Familiar with Git and LabView.
• Solid understanding of the fundamentals of verification, of product requirements and relationship to user needs as well as (micro)-architectures, of the use cases, and of the business requirements
• Operational knowledge of medical technology, including applicable standards and cross-functional disciplines within the medical device industry.General understanding of physics principles, e.g. vacuum technology and acoustics.
• Fluent in English (C1-C2), German is an asset.

Your opportunity

At Medela, you will be joining a global community of colleagues, united by the purpose that drives our business: helping people. Medela exists to advance human health and wellbeing through knowledge-based and innovative human milk and medical vacuum solutions.

Our employees are empowered to serve this purpose in a family-owned company that is growing rapidly around the world. We value intensive exchanges, diverse perspectives, and unbureaucratic decisions. You will have the opportunity to develop at an international level, and witness the direct impact your work has on our company’s success.

If you are interested in this opportunity, we are looking forward to receiving your application.

Due to work permit restrictions, we can only consider applications from Swiss Nationals, UK, EU citizens as well as relevant work-permit holders for Switzerland.

For this recruitment we will not consider any applications sent through by agencies.