# Director Systems Engineering

Life Unlimited. At Smith+Nephew we design and manufacture technology that takes the limits off living. Smith+Nephew seeks an R&D Director of Systems Engineering in the Sports Medicine business to drive and lead system engineering efforts in partnership with the Systems Verification Team and R&D New Product Development teams. The role will work with the R&D Sr. Director of Sports Medicine Systems Engineering and Advanced Technology Development. What will you be doing? Provide functional leadership and direction to the AET Systems Engineering team to drive AET New Product Development Programs Coach, mentor and enable systems team members Ensure quality of systems engineering team deliverables, especially program charter, requirements development for the program (User Needs and Design Inputs), system architecture (including functional, physical and interface requirement specifications), verification and validation strategies Remain current with the knowledge and practice of systems engineering and requirements management Enable alignment with cross-functional partners on NDP Programs Responsible for and drives high impact strategic initiatives Analyze complexity and handle risks What

- **Id**: 4326500
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/smithnephew-director-systems-engineering>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Andover, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T01:27:19Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4734
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Hybrid work, Parental leave, Stock options
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Industrial Engineering, Surgical Instruments & Devices, Orthopedic & Spine Implants

## Company

- **Id**: 1768800
- **Name**: Smith+Nephew
- **Domain**: smith-nephew.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/smith-nephew-com>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 82
- **Open postings**: 89
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.708
- **Repost share**: 0.045
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 29
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 165250
- **Max**: 271375
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 271375

## Technologies

- **C#** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Design Controls** — Optional: no
- **IEC 60601** — Optional: no
- **IEC 62304** — Optional: no
- **ISO 14971** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Verification & Validation** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-15T01:27:19Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 33 · green card filings: 11; Filings 12m: 33

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T03:52:31Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 271375
- **Is top pay**: yes

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