Validation Specialist Onsite - Palo Alto

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** Onsite - Palo Alto** role at Siemens Healthineers

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Varian Medical Systems, a Siemens Healthineers company, is hiring an on‑site resource in Palo Alto, California. Our goal is to release quality products for clinical users, ensuring safe, effective treatment for patients and meeting operator needs as expected. We seek candidates with current clinical backgrounds and strong analytical abilities to drive the quality of our development work.

Do you have clinical experience in Radiation Oncology? We’d like to talk with you!

The Validation Specialist represents the voice of clinical users and patients from the radiation therapist/medical dosimetrist perspective by identifying workflows bottlenecks, missed opportunities, and critical features that could lead to mistreatments or hazards.

Join the Product Validation team and use your analytical and logic skills to ensure that the medical devices being developed are of high quality, intuitive, and meet design and intended use requirements.

• Ensure that validation is complete and that Varian’s products are safe, effective, and meet the user’s intended use, with objective test evidence prior to release.
• Evaluate and discuss clinical practices, treatment techniques and clinical process optimizations with Product Management, User Experience and Design Engineering teams to define new product requirements.
• Provide continuous feedback and implement improvements to the design, development, and modification of radiation and oncology products and systems.
• Support development and maintenance of Varian products, including Oncology Information Systems, Treatment Planning Management Systems, and Treatment Delivery and Imaging Systems.
• Define strategy for assuring thorough design validation of new products to demonstrate that they meet design and intended use requirements.
• Develop, modify, and execute design validation plans to meet product and system requirements.
• Participate in requirements analysis, use case development, and risk hazard analysis.
• Analyze and write test designs and procedures, establish traceability to requirements and risk mitigations.
• Consult with Product Verification Engineers, Product Marketing, User Experience and Project Management to resolve usability, requirements, software, and scope problems.
• Work as part of a global development team and be willing to travel globally (5‑25%) to support Varian’s validation efforts.

• Education and experience include one of the following:
• Current clinical certification/registration as a Radiation Therapist plus five (5) years of Radiation Oncology clinical experience as a Radiation Therapist.
• Degree (B.A., B.S., or foreign equivalent) plus five (5) years of Radiation Oncology clinical experience as a Radiation Therapist and/or Clinical Applications Specialist using Varian’s products.
• Thorough understanding of simulation, imaging, and treatment delivery clinical workflow scenarios in a radiation therapy center, including proficiency with:
• Treatment delivery using a variety of techniques including IMRT and VMAT.
• Performing stereotactic radio surgeries for brain (SRS) and lung (SBRT) treatments.
• Knowledge of radiation safety practices, including safe handling of ionizing radiation equipment.

• Current clinical certification/registration as a Radiation Therapist and clinical experience as a Medical Dosimetrist.
• Proficient and efficient use of the following Varian products:
• ARIA Radiation Therapy Management software applications.
• Linear accelerators such as the C-Series, True Beam and/or Halcyon.
• Experience with motion management technologies such as Varian RPM, RGSC or optical surface tracking with products such as IDENTIFY.
• Basic knowledge of ARIA Oncology Information System for Radiation Oncology and Eclipse Treatment Planning System software applications.

Min $139,180 – Max $208,780

Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other…