Philips

Senior Function Development Engineer-Oral Healthcare

China · Work style not stated · Full time

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EmployerPhilips
LocationChina
Work styleWork style not stated
Employment typeFull time
Employer posted23 Sep 2026

Job Title

Senior Function Development Engineer-Oral Healthcare

Job Description

(Senior) Function Development Engineer

Location: Shenzhen

Job Responsibilities:

• Front-end-innovation and pre-development process including translating and communicating commercial, functional and design specifications into the realization of new functions, processes and/or innovative products.

• Identify physical principles necessary to deliver targeted user benefits, development of the verification methods and instrumentation and overseeing the verification of embodiments of physical principles against requirements.

• Provide the identification and development of methods to characterize and optimize functional parameters.

• Support the development of methods and instrumentation to verify the clinical efficacy of embodiments (technology demonstrator) to deliver user benefits (experimental, confirmatory or claim substantiation style).

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• Safeguarding functionality, performance, quality, reliability, and manufacturability of products.

• Finding and generating knowledge (external and internal) in one of the following domains: Dynamic mechanical systems, fluid dynamics, electromagnetics.

• Actively maintaining and increasing level of knowledge in defined domain and making available in the departments in a way that is accessible for others.

• Participate and/or lead as key competence resource for the organization

Generating necessary input for roadmap and strategy discussions.

• Cooperating with colleagues and other departments and being able to influence people and help build a team.

• Work with Market Communication and external Advertising agencies to accurately communicate benefits to sales force and consumers.

• Collaborate with RA and QA departments for the product quality assurance, root cost analysis, and CAPA.

Minimum required Education:

Bachelor's / master’s degree in electrical engineering, Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science Engineering or equivalent.

Minimum required Experience:

Minimum 5 years of experience with Bachelor's in areas such as System Architecture, System Design, Hardware Engineering or equivalent.

Preferred Experience:

Consumer device or medical device experience preferred

Preferred Skills:

• Product Development Lifecycle Management

• Verification Testing

• Validation Testing

• Technical Documentation

• Research & Analysis

• Technical Acumen

• Product Design

• Quality Specifications

• Regulatory Requirements

• Troubleshooting

• Requirements Analysis

• Hardware Engineering

• Business Acumen

• Continuous Improvement

• Good written and spoken English

How we work together
We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 4 days per week.

About Philips
Are you ready to do the work of your life to help the lives of others? Learn more about our business, discover our rich and exciting history and learn more about our purpose.
If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our culture of impact with care.

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