Business Analyst, Engineering (Life Sciences)

Location: Hybrid, 4 days per week onsite in Billerica, Massachusetts, United States; occasional travel of less than 10% may be required.

Salary: $74,000–$92,000 USD annually.

Company

hirify.global Life Sciences develops automated biosample management solutions, genomic services, laboratory analysis, sample management and storage services, informatics software, and consumables for pharmaceutical, biotech, academic, and healthcare institutions.

What you will do

• Elicit, analyze, document, validate, and maintain product, customer, business, operational, and engineering requirements.
• Translate high-level product needs into detailed software, system, functional, interface, data, and operational requirements.
• Develop use cases, workflows, business rules, process flows, acceptance criteria, boundary conditions, error conditions, and operational constraints.
• Create, organize, decompose, and maintain engineering backlog items with dependencies, supporting documentation, and traceability.
• Clarify requirements for Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Quality, Product Management, and other stakeholders.
• Support defect analysis, design verification, software qualification testing, validation activities, technical documentation, and ISO 13485-compliant artifacts.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• At least 3 years of experience in business analysis, systems analysis, requirements engineering, software development support, quality engineering, or a related technical role.
• Ability to write clear, detailed, feasible, unambiguous, and testable software, system, or product requirements.
• Experience producing acceptance criteria, use cases, workflows, business rules, or functional specifications.
• Experience maintaining and refining engineering backlog items.
• Ability to understand technical concepts and communicate effectively with software engineers and other engineering disciplines.
• Strong analytical, written communication, facilitation, and organizational skills.
• Ability to identify ambiguity, missing information, dependencies, conflicts, assumptions, and inconsistencies in requirements.

Nice to have

• Experience with Azure DevOps, Jira, or a similar application lifecycle-management platform.
• Experience maintaining requirements traceability and supporting change-impact analysis.
• Familiarity with software development lifecycles and Agile practices.
• Experience supporting software verification and validation activities.
• Experience with laboratory systems, scientific instruments, life sciences, medical devices, industrial automation, or other multidisciplinary products.
• Experience collaborating across software, systems, electrical, or mechanical engineering teams.
• Experience with NPI and PDI processes.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement with 4 days per week onsite in Billerica.
• Occasional project-dependent travel of less than 10%.
• Equal opportunity employment regardless of race, color, age, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
• The role manages requirements and backlog content but does not own product strategy, roadmaps, priorities, architecture, or personnel management.