Sr. R&D Engineer

Description

The primary objective of this role is to advance HF-OCT catheter products through the product development lifecycle, from concept and design through verification, design transfer, and commercialization, resulting in best-in-class clinical and technical performance.

SUMMARY OF PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Makes significant contributions to the product development of single-use intravascular devices, components, and related manufacturing methods with internal and external partners.

• Lead and/or support activities such as, design optimization, verification and validation testing, and design transfer.

• Drive technical decision making with internal and external teams, resolving design, manufacturing, supplier, and testing challenges as they arise, to ensure successful product development and company objectives are met.

• Support the creation and review of design verification test protocols and reports, design of experiments, and risk management file deliverables such as hazard analyses, FMEAs, etc.

• Ensure adherence to established design control processes, good engineering practices, and the company quality policy.

Other duties as assigned

Requirements

Minimum of 8+ years of technical design and medical product development experience with a four-year technical degree or 4-6 years with an advanced degree. A working knowledge in the following areas:

· Experience developing single use medical devices through design verification, validation, design transfer, and commercial release.

· Management of external partnerships for development and manufacturing

· Development of engineering drawings, specifications, tolerance analyses, and manufacturing documentation.

· Medical device design controls or equivalent via work in highly regulated industries

· Risk management processes including d/pFMEA, specification traceability, hazards analysis and statistical treatment of risks

· Development and execution of verifications strategies, test methods, protocols, statistical justifications, and technical reports.

· Application of statistical methods to verification planning, capability assessment, tolerance allocation, and design decision making.

· Catheter, balloon, and guidewire manufacturing processes including injection molding, extrusions, RF and ultrasonic welding, adhesives, laser processing, etc.

· Leadership/mentorship

· Analytic approach to design development including first principles analyses, finite element simulations, statistical modeling, etc.