Principal Systems Engineer - P5 at Boston Scientific
Arden Hills, MN
$102,100–$194,000from the description
Jul 27, 2026
Arden Hills, MN
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Principal Systems Engineer role within Boston Scientific's Interventional Cardiology division, responsible for technical leadership across the full product development lifecycle — from system architecture and requirements management through integration, verification, and commercialization. The work spans complex multidisciplinary medical device systems (capital equipment, computing platforms, and single-use therapeutic devices), requiring close collaboration with electrical, mechanical, software, regulatory, and clinical teams. Best suited to an experienced systems engineer with a medical device or similarly regulated industry background.
Senior level · 10+ years · Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI · Bachelor's required · Full-time
Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Senior.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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Why we read it this way (7)
SOC classification is a judgement call: Systems Engineering as a discipline sits between 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other — the closest match for formal systems engineering roles) and 15-1211 (Computer Systems Analysts). The role's emphasis on hardware/software/electrical/mechanical integration and medical device architecture leans toward 15-1299; 15-1211 is the runner-up.
The posting's title is 'Principal Systems Engineer - P5', which maps to the Principal advertised level. However, the actual scope — leading a single product division's engineering activities with no stated org-wide or enterprise-wide authority — is consistent with a Senior individual contributor, not a true Principal-band role. The experience floor (10 years with a bachelor's) also aligns with Senior.
The 10-year minimum (or 8 years with a master's) is the role-level experience gate; the lower figure applies only with a master's degree, so 10 years is used as the overall years minimum.
Requirements management tools (Jama, Codebeamer, Jira) are listed together as interchangeable options under required qualifications; Jama is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives.
The preferred qualifications section contained an injected prompt-like directive ('If you'd like, I can also generate…') that is not a genuine job requirement and has been ignored.
Medical device industry experience with design controls is listed under preferred qualifications only.
Ignored 4 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): requirements engineering, system architecture, risk management, human factors engineering.
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