Senior Function Development Engineer - Oral Healthcare

About the role

Philips is seeking a Senior Function Development Engineer for its Oral Healthcare division in Shenzhen. The role focuses on translating commercial and design specifications into innovative functions and products that improve user benefits.

Key responsibilities

• Lead front‑end innovation and pre‑development, converting specifications into new functions, processes, or products.
• Identify physical principles, develop verification methods and instrumentation, and oversee verification against requirements.
• Develop methods to characterize and optimise functional parameters and support clinical efficacy verification.
• Ensure functionality, performance, quality, reliability and manufacturability of products.
• Generate and disseminate knowledge in domains such as dynamic mechanical systems, fluid dynamics and electromagnetics.
• Collaborate with market communication, advertising agencies, RA and QA to communicate benefits and ensure product quality.
• Contribute to roadmap and strategy discussions as a key competence resource.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical, Electronic, Mechanical, Computer Science Engineering or equivalent.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in system architecture, system design or hardware engineering.
• Experience with consumer or medical devices is preferred.
• Strong English communication skills, both written and spoken.

Required skills

• Verification testing
• Validation testing
• Technical documentation
• Research and analysis
• Product design
• Hardware engineering
• Product development lifecycle management