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Help design the future of product support at Alcon. Bring your technical expertise and proven engineering project experience to shape how advanced surgical, diagnostic, visualization, and connected medical devices are designed and supported worldwide. As Principal Engineer, Product Service Engineering, you will influence product design, lead service readiness, and advance secure remote diagnostics and software updates—from development through end of life.
This role is on-site in our Lake Forest, CA location and a typical day would include:
What You Will Lead
Lead engineering delivery. Own support strategy for an assigned portfolio. Turn service needs into requirements, project plans, and technical deliverables; manage dependencies, risks, and milestones.
Shape product design. Partner with Research and Development to improve serviceability, diagnostics, reliability, uptime, and lifecycle support costs.
Deliver launch readiness. Coordinate service plans, test procedures, documentation, training, tools, spare parts, and product data for development reviews and launch.
Advance connected support. Define reusable networking and connectivity requirements, secure remote access, software updates, diagnostics, device logs, and monitoring capabilities.
Solve complex problems. Lead field investigations with engineering and Quality, driving root cause resolution, corrective and preventive actions, and product or service improvements.
Build secure service workflows. Partner with security and privacy teams to protect patient data and support regulatory and cybersecurity compliance.
Equip global service teams. Create controlled technical guidance and train Technical Support and Field Service Engineers. Support installation requirements, customer specifications, service contract options, and accurate data in SAP and ServiceMax.
How You Will Work and Make an Impact
Lead through expertise. This principal-level individual contributor role has no direct reports. Influence product and service decisions through engineering judgment and cross-functional leadership.
Think across systems. Connect electrical, mechanical, optical, software, and networking considerations. Use technical evidence to design practical, secure solutions.
Collaborate globally. Align engineering, digital health, security, Quality, manufacturing, supply chain, commercial, clinical, and service teams around priorities and delivery.
Make complexity clear. Communicate risks and tradeoffs, share expertise, and manage competing workstreams to improve launch readiness, customer uptime, and support effectiveness.
What You’ll Bring to Alcon:
Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent years of directly related experience (or high school +13 yrs; Assoc.+9 yrs; M.S.+2 yrs; PhD+0 yrs)
The ability to fluently read, write, understand and communicate in English
5 Years of Relevant Experience
Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related field; biomedical, electrical, computer, or network engineering preferred.
Demonstrated subject matter expertise in service design or engineering for medical devices or complex technology products, including connected systems.
Proven delivery of engineering projects or significant technical workstreams, including requirements ownership, cross-functional coordination, risk resolution, and completed deliverables.
Hands-on networking experience: wired and wireless networks, IP addressing, URL forwarding and allow-listing, Domain Name System (DNS), firewalls, ports, and cloud connectivity.
Strong understanding of medical…