HeartFlow
Staff Systems Engineer (CT Imaging)
$200K–$250K
San Francisco, California +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, California
San Francisco - Experience
- 10+ years of Systems Engineering experience in medical devices and/or regulated imaging products.
- Education
- B.S. or M.S. in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Physics, or a related discipline; Ph.D. preferred.
About the job
Leads systems engineering for optimizing Heartflow products across CT scanners and imaging technologies, defining requirements and verification strategies to ensure consistent image-based results.
What you'll do
- Own system architecture and requirements, and define verification and validation strategy for performance across EID-CT and PCCT scanners, detectors, and reconstruction settings.
- Partner with Clinical Research and cross-functional teams to quantify imaging performance, address technology changes, and support regulatory submissions and audits.
- Represent Systems Engineering in design reviews and planning, maintain traceability and design-control practices, and mentor Systems Engineers.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of Systems Engineering experience in medical devices and/or regulated imaging products.
- Direct experience with CT acquisition and reconstruction across both EID-CT and PCCT.
- Expertise in applied statistics and analysis of imaging performance, variance, and measurement accuracy.
- Experience owning requirements, traceability, and verification and validation for regulatory submissions; experience developing FDA-regulated SaMD.
Nice to have
- Ph.D.
- Familiarity with CT OEM platforms and roadmaps; CCTA, NCCT, coronary imaging workflows, AI/ML clinical decision support, or DICOM and interoperability standards.
Pay
USD $200,000 to $250,000 base salary
Tools
EID-CT, PCCT, 510(k), De Novo, PMA, FDA, EU MDR, PMDA
AI focus
The role supports Heartflow’s AI-driven medical products by optimizing their outputs across CT imaging technologies; AI/ML-enabled clinical decision support is listed as a preferred area of experience.
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