
Systems Architect- Medical Ultrasound Hardware (Cambridge, MA or Bothell, WA)
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Job overview
The Systems Architect shapes Philips ultrasound imaging platforms by integrating hardware, software, imaging, transducers, and clinical needs. The role defines platform architectures and system requirements, leads trade studies and technology evaluations, and guides integration and verification strategies. It also communicates architecture decisions across technical and business teams and mentors engineers. The position is office-based, with in-person work at least three days per week.
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Full job description
In this role you will help shape the future of Philips Ultrasound imaging platforms. As a Systems Architect, you will integrate hardware, software, imaging, transducers, and clinical needs to create safe, reliable, and scalable solutions that advance clinical performance and care.
Your role:
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Create and evolve imaging platform architectures for diagnostic ultrasound products, defining clear boundaries, interfaces, assumptions, and design rationale. Translate clinical, user, business, service, manufacturing, quality, and regulatory needs into architecture drivers and measurable system requirements.
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Lead system-level trade studies that balance image quality and performance with thermal and power constraints, reliability, cybersecurity, cost, supply continuity, serviceability, sustainability, and platform reuse. Use modeling, prototyping, and focused experiments to reduce uncertainty and make evidence-based recommendations.
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Evaluate emerging compute, GPU, acquisition, signal-path, display, control, power, connectivity, and transducer-interface technologies against real product and clinical needs. Contribute to reusable platform enablers and technology roadmaps that accelerate innovation across the ultrasound portfolio.
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Define integration and verification strategies that uncover interface issues and retire the most important technical and patient-safety risks early. Maintain design and requirement integrity while guiding decisions across hardware, software, imaging, transducers, clinical science, design quality, manufacturing, and service.
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Communicate architecture intent, alternatives, evidence, risks, and decisions clearly to technical teams and business leaders. Mentor engineers and strengthen systems thinking, architecture quality, and engineering rigor across your program teams.
You're the right fit if:
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You have a Master’s Degree in a related discipline; PhD preferred.
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You’ve acquired 5+ years of industry and/or academic experience in Ultrasound System Architecture, System Design, Hardware Engineering, or equivalent.
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Your skills include Product Development Lifecycle Management, Verification and Validation Testing, Technical Documentation, Regulatory Requirements, Requirement Analysis, Business Acumen, Strategic Planning, Systems Architecture, and Risk Management.
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You combine curiosity and invention with engineering discipline. You are energized by new technology and equally committed to patient safety, reliability, quality, and responsible product realization.
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You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position .
How we work together
We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.
This is an office role.
About Philips
We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help improve the lives of others.
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Learn more about our business (https://www.philips.com/a-w/about.html) .
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Discover our rich and exciting history. (https://www.philips.com/a-w/about/our-history.html)
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Learn more about our purpose. (https://www.philips.com/a-w/about/environmental-social-governance/our-purpose)
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Learn more about our culture. (https://www.careers.philips.com/na/en/our-culture-philips-careers)
Philips Transparency Details
The pay range for this position in Bothell, WA and Cambridge, MA is $115,000 to $182,000.
The actual base pay offered may vary within the posted ranges depending on multiple factors including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, and internal equity.
In addition, other compensation, such as an annual incentive bonus, sales commission or long-term incentives may be offered. Employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive Philips Total Rewards benefits program, which includes a generous PTO, 401k (up to 7% match), HSA (with company contribution), stock purchase plan, education reimbursement and much more. Details about our benefits can be found here (https://www.philipsusbenefits.com/) .
At Philips, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top end of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each case.
Additional Information
US work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work-authorized visa, now or in the future.
Company relocation benefits will not be provided for this position. For this position, you must reside in or within commuting distance to Cambridge, MA or Bothell, WA.
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As an equal opportunity employer, Philips is committed to a diverse workforce. In order to ensure reasonable accommodation for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Veterans' Readjustment Act of 1974, and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, applicants that require accommodation in the job application process may contact 888-367-7223, option 5, for assistance.
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How this job compares
Set against the 869 open Systems Architect jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$115–182K/yr
- Washington median$163–270K/yr24 salary ranges
- US median$150–253K/yr686 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $149K, is 27% below the Washington median midpoint ($203K) — in the lowest quarter of Systems Architect salary ranges in Washington.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 27 open Systems Architect jobs in Washington and 869 across the US. 12% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Systems Architect postings that state a minimum ask for 8 years at the median (662 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a master's degree; 22 of the 869 open Systems Architect jobs (3%) ask for a master's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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