Change people’s lives and love what you do! Cochlear develops world-leading medical devices that help people hear. As a top 100 medical device company and market-leader in implantable hearing devices, more people choose a Cochlear-branded cochlear implant system than any other. Our employees tell us that the number one reason they enjoy working for Cochlear is the opportunity to make a difference to people’s lives.
The Opportunity
Based in Kuala Lumpur, the Manager, Verification & Validation and Product Lifecycle Engineering plays a critical leadership role within Cochlear’s Sound Processors product vertical.
You will lead teams responsible for embedded software, product and system V&V, and lifecycle engineering, ensuring V&V and lifecycle engineering activities are efficient, effective, compliant, and tightly aligned to global release priorities.
This role works in close partnership with local and global stakeholders across Verification & Validation, Systems Engineering, Embedded Software, Quality, Project Management and R&D. You will champion verification and lifecycle engineering thinking, grow local technical capability, and contribute to the continuous improvement of Cochlear’s global V&V and lifecycle engineering disciplines.
Responsibilities include:
People Leadership & Capability Building
Lead, mentor and manage V&V team leaders and product lifecycle engineers within the product vertical.
Build a high‑performing, inclusive and feedback‑rich team culture using Cochlear people practices.
Coach and develop team members through clear technical and leadership career pathways.
Drive recruitment, onboarding and succession planning to build future capability.
Advocate for team needs, ensuring access to the tools, resources and support required for success.
Manage team engagement, communication and conflict effectively.
Verification, Validation & Lifecycle Engineering Delivery
Lead and govern V&V and lifecycle engineering delivery to enable high‑quality, releases within quality management system.
Set clear expectations for V&V quality, coverage, traceability and evidence completeness.
Provide escalation leadership for complex V&V or lifecycle engineering challenges, ensuring timely resolution.
Ensure consistent application of platform and variant V&V strategies, balancing reuse, efficiency and coverage.
Global Stakeholder Partnership & Alignment
Build strong, trusted partnerships with local and global stakeholders across V&V, Systems Engineering, Quality, R&D and Project Management.
Act as the primary interface for V&V and lifecycle engineering in KL within the sound processor systems department.
Provide transparent communication on delivery status, risks, capacity and dependencies.
Align local deliverables, mechanisms of operation, and long-term vision and strategies for teams in KL with global V&V strategies, processes and standards while contributing local insights.
Represent KL in global planning, prioritisation and continuous improvement forums.
About You. As we grow our operations, we are looking for people who share our passion delivering safe, effective, and high-quality hearing solutions. To add value to Cochlear in this role, you'll be able to demonstrate the following skills and experience:
Degree in Engineering (Electrical or Electronics preferred), with embedded software exposure.
Experience in systems, product, electrical, electronics, firmware design, development or testing within R&D environments.
Proven people leadership experience, including leading senior technical teams.
Strong understanding of verification and validation principles, methods and tools.
Experience operating in regulated, quality‑driven.
Experience operating in cross‑functional, matrixed and global environments.
Clear and effective written and verbal communication skill.
Experience working in medical devices or other highly regulated industries, combined with exposure to Product Lifecycle Engineering and platform or variant‑based V&V strategies.
Experience working in design, development or testing using product family engineering methodology.
Demonstrated experience with successfully developing and shaping a high-performing technical team under uncertainty, change and challenge.
Role model and cultural champion in line with Cochlear’s mission and HEAR behaviours.
Why this role is for you?
This role offers the opportunity to influence product quality and patient outcomes at scale. You’ll lead teams, shape V&V strategy, and work globally to ensure Cochlear’s sound processors meet the highest standards of safety, quality and performance — while continuing to grow your leadership and technical impact.
How we recognise your contribution
We want Cochlear to be a place where our people enjoy coming to work. Through our internal programs and employee benefits we aim to create an environment where our people will feel valued and supported. Whether your focus is on continuous learning, professional development or simply finding an environment which enables you to thrive whilst balancing family or personal life commitments, then we have several programs in place to support you.
Cochlear Malaysia provides shared services to support Cochlear’s global operations. The growing team of professionals in Malaysia provides critical support in areas such as IT infrastructure and applications, development and testing, business intelligence development and support, procurement, customer service, service and repairs and returned device analysis engineering.
If you feel that you have the skills and experience to be successful in this role and take on new challenges to build your career with Cochlear, please start your application by clicking the apply button below.
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Hear now. And always
As the global leader in implantable hearing solutions, at Cochlear (ASX: COH) we are committed to our mission to help people hear and be heard. Our story started more than four decades ago when Professor Graeme Clark pioneered the world's first multi-channel cochlear implant and created an entirely new treatment for hearing loss.
Since our formation in 1981, we continue Professor Clark’s work to help people with moderate to profound hearing loss experience a life full of hearing.
We have provided more than 650,000 implantable devices. Each recipient helps form a global community of millions, through families, friends, colleagues, teachers and more. And they’re not just connected to their own community — each shares a link with each other and to Professor Clark’s childhood desire to help people hear.
We aim to give people the best lifelong hearing experience and access to innovative future technologies. We understand the privilege of connecting people to a life lived with hearing. And we listen, respond and move with the times – to continue to bring hearing within reach of all those who need it.
That's how we live our mission every day. Our global workforce of more than 4,000 people shares a collective determination to give more people the opportunity to enjoy a life of hearing.
Cochlear’s global headquarters are on the campus of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia with regional headquarters in Asia Pacific, Europe and the Americas. Through our offices in over 180 countries we help people of all ages to hear.
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