The Company
Dexcom Corporation (NASDAQ DXCM) is a pioneer and global leader in continuous glucose monitoring (CGM). Dexcom began as a small company with a big dream: To forever change how diabetes is managed. To unlock information and insights that drive better health outcomes. Here we are 25 years later, having pioneered an industry. And we're just getting started. We are broadening our vision beyond diabetes to empower people to take control of health. That means personalized, actionable insights aimed at solving important health challenges. To continue what we've started: Improving human health.
We are driven by thousands of ambitious, passionate people worldwide who are willing to fight like warriors to earn the trust of our customers by listening, serving with integrity, thinking big, and being dependable. We've already changed millions of lives and we're ready to change millions more. Our future ambition is to become a leading consumer health technology company while continuing to develop solutions for serious health conditions. We'll get there by constantly reinventing unique biosensing-technology experiences. Though we've come a long way from our small company days, our dreams are bigger than ever. The opportunity to improve health on a global scale stands before us.
Meet the team:
The Dexcom R&D Electronics Team is a group of highly motivated and talented engineers responsible for developing industry-leading continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems that improve the lives of millions of people worldwide. Our team designs high-volume wearable medical devices with a focus on low-power electronics, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) communication, precision sensing technologies, reliability, and manufacturability.
We support existing commercial products, drive continuous product improvements, and develop next-generation technologies that continue to expand the capabilities of glucose sensing and wearable medical devices. This role is ideal for a highly experienced engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, uncovering system-level behavior through data, and influencing the design of life-changing medical technologies. As a senior technical leader within the Electronics Characterization Team, you will help define characterization strategies, drive engineering decisions, and ensure robust product performance from concept through commercialization.
Where you come in:
You will provide technical leadership across multiple product development programs, influencing engineering decisions and helping ensure robust product performance throughout the product lifecycle.
You will define and execute characterization strategies, design verification activities, and test methodologies that establish product performance, reliability, and design margins across complex wearable medical device systems.
You will develop comprehensive test plans, characterization frameworks, and experimental protocols to evaluate analog, digital, wireless, sensing, and power management subsystems.
You will lead complex root cause investigations and failure analysis efforts spanning product development, manufacturing, reliability testing, and post-market performance.
You will collaborate closely with hardware, firmware, systems, quality, reliability, manufacturing, and regulatory teams to drive effective technical solutions.
You will analyze large data sets, identify key insights, and provide data-driven recommendations that influence product design and business decisions.
You will support sustaining engineering activities for commercial products, including issue investigation, corrective actions, risk assessments, and design improvements.
You will participate in architecture reviews, design reviews, and technical risk assessments, helping improve reliability, manufacturability, testability, and overall product quality.
You will champion engineering best practices, test automation, and continuous improvement initiatives that increase team efficiency and product robustness.
You will serve as a technical mentor and subject matter expert, helping develop junior engineers while fostering engineering excellence across the organization.
What makes you successful:
You are recognized as a technical leader with extensive experience in electrical system characterization, validation, debug, and root cause analysis.
You have demonstrated success developing and executing complex test strategies, design verification plans, and characterization studies for electronic products.
You bring strong hands-on laboratory expertise using oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, logic analyzers, digital multimeters, current analyzers, and other advanced electronic test equipment.
You have significant experience troubleshooting mixed-signal electronic systems, including analog, digital, power, wireless, and sensing technologies.
You are highly proficient in experimental design, statistical analysis, and data-driven decision making.
You possess excellent written and verbal communication skills and can effectively present technical findings to engineers, cross-functional stakeholders, and senior leadership.
You have experience supporting products throughout the full product lifecycle, including new product development, design verification, commercialization, and sustaining engineering.
You have demonstrated success leading cross-functional technical initiatives and influencing engineering decisions without direct authority.
You have experience mentoring engineers and helping teams improve technical rigor, problem-solving approaches, and engineering best practices.
Ideally, you have experience developing FDA-regulated medical devices and working within design control environments.
Ideally, you have experience with Design for Reliability (DFR), Design for Test (DFT), Design for Manufacturing (DFM), and Design for Cost (DFC) methodologies for high-volume products.
Ideally, you have experience with wearable electronics, battery-powered devices, wireless communication systems, and high-volume consumer or medical products.
What you'll get:
A front row seat to life changing CGM technology. Learn about our brave #dexcomwarriors community.
A full and comprehensive benefits program.
Growth opportunities on a global scale.
Access to career development through in-house learning programs and/or qualified tuition reimbursement.
An exciting and innovative, industry-leading organization committed to our employees, customers, and the communities we serve.
Travel Required:
0-5%
Education and Experience:
Typically requires a Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline, and a minimum of 13+ years related experience or a Master's degree and 8+ years equivalent industry experience or a PhD and 5+ years of experience.
Please note: The information contained herein is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job, nor are they intended to be an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Management may, at its discretion, assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. The duties and responsibilities in this job description may be subject to change at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. Dexcom's AAP may be viewed upon request by contacting Talent Acquisition at
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Salary:
$172,400.00 - $287,300.00
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