PA Consulting is an innovation and transformation consultancy that believes in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future in a technology-driven world.  Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough use of technologies to progress further, faster for patients and healthcare.   We partner with global clients, collaborating to develop solutions to vexing business challenges. 

Our common goal is to achieve a perceptible impact on human life across the health ecosystem, delivering end-to-end solutions that transform people’s lives.  In the last 2 years alone, we delivered complex, multi-disciplinary projects; ensuring no one went without a ventilator, standing up new hospitals in weeks, delivering vaccines at record pace, shaping the future of virtual trials with more diverse participation, disrupting the future of cell and gene therapy, and positively transforming the lives of cancer patients.

PA Consulting’s Medical Device Practice is a multidisciplinary engineering, design, development, and innovation studio based in Boston, MA.  We bring human insight to client teams and develop physical products, digital experiences, and new services.  The PA global engineering organization now includes Cooper Perkins, Essential Design, Astro Studios, Sparkler, and other leading design and insights studios across the globe.  Together, PA’s studio network tackles ambitious, end-to-end strategy, design, development, and implementation challenges, by harnessing the skills and creativity of distributed teams around the globe.  We are constantly challenged with finding solutions to problems that have no clear, immediate answers, often needing to avoid existing patterns and beliefs in find the best path forward.

What you will do:

·           Design, analyze, and validate electrical hardware including integration with complex mechanical components for breadboarding and low volumes through mass production.

·           Write robust embedded firmware and connect it with user-facing software in Python, C# or similar packages to enhance early version hardware.

·           Collaborate within cross-disciplinary teams to conduct research, brainstorm, prototype, test, analyze, document, and present work to clients.

What you bring:

·           BS (MS preferred) in electrical engineering or a related field and the desire to work on complex real-world problems.

·           Experience solving tough problems within one or more of the following areas: analog and digital electrical design, RF design, firmware architecture, embedded systems design, firmware or software development, controls, instrumentation and measurement, and power supply engineering.

·           Creativity to find non-standard application of typical solutions

·           Experience with firmware development tools (CCS, MPLAB or similar), software development tools (C#, Python, or similar) and electrical hardware design tools (Altium, PADS, EAGLE, or similar).

·           Experience working collaboratively with other development disciplines including Electrical Engineering, Human Factors Engineering, Industrial Design and Software Engineering as well as other product development functions including marketing, manufacturing, quality and regulatory to achieve holistic solutions that meet business goals, user desires, and market needs as well as technical requirements.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.