Leads hands-on innovation, design, prototyping, testing, verification, validation, manufacturability, and commercial transfer of interventional neurovascular and vascular medical devices. Collaborates with marketing, clinical, manufacturing, quality, regulatory, and contract manufacturing teams to define requirements, develop CAD designs, conduct preclinical testing, validate manufacturing equipment and processes, and improve production efficiency, yield, quality, and reliability.
Title: Staff R&D Engineer, Devices
Location: This position is based in our Campbell, California offices. This position is on-site and full-time with some travel.
Why Imperative Care?
Do you want to make a real impact on patients? Imperative Care is changing the way stroke and vascular diseases are treated. As part of our team, you’d be developing breakthroughs that will revolutionize the future of stroke care. Every day, the technologies that we develop at Imperative Care directly impact human lives. Our focus is on the needs of the patient, and they come first in everything we do.
What You’ll Do
This role is for a hands-on, individual contributor to lead technical innovation, design, development, manufacturability, and testing/verification/validation of new medical devices, including specialty devices used in the interventional neurovascular and vascular markets from early stage through commercial release and transfer to manufacturing according to established Design Control procedures.
Salary Range: $160,000 - 185,000 annually
Please note that the salary information is a general guideline only. Imperative Care considers factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, key skills, and internal equity, as well as location, market and business considerations when extending an offer.
Join Us! Apply Today
Location: This position is based in our Campbell, California offices. This position is on-site and full-time with some travel.
Why Imperative Care?
Do you want to make a real impact on patients? Imperative Care is changing the way stroke and vascular diseases are treated. As part of our team, you’d be developing breakthroughs that will revolutionize the future of stroke care. Every day, the technologies that we develop at Imperative Care directly impact human lives. Our focus is on the needs of the patient, and they come first in everything we do.
What You’ll Do
This role is for a hands-on, individual contributor to lead technical innovation, design, development, manufacturability, and testing/verification/validation of new medical devices, including specialty devices used in the interventional neurovascular and vascular markets from early stage through commercial release and transfer to manufacturing according to established Design Control procedures.
- Work closely with Marketing, Clinical Engineering, and physician partners to define product requirements, create designs using CAD software (Solidworks), and lead prototyping and bench and other preclinical testing and experiments to ensure product performance, reliability, and safety.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Process Development, Quality, Regulatory, Marketing, and Mfg/Ops teams within Imperative Care and contract manufacturer(s) to ensure new product manufacturability (DFM) and robust process control and alignment with design specifications, quality systems, operational capabilities, and cost targets and to optimize and scale existing processes to improve efficiency, yield, and product quality, working with outside partners as needed.
- Support and work collaboratively with contract manufacturing partners for the design, implementation, and validation of the related manufacturing equipment and processes needed for scalable, high-accuracy medical device production.
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, or related discipline and a minimum of 8+ years of related experience driving innovation in the development of flexible medical device instruments; or equivalent combination of education and work experience in related regulated industry.
- The ideal candidate will have a strong background in intravascular medical device design, development, prototyping, executing design verification and test method validations, and manufacturing methods and controls, with a focus on guidewires, stents, stent delivery devices, catheters, and/or similar devices.
- Familiarity with special-purpose machine design, automation, precision machining (e.g., centerless grinding and CNC Swiss and laser micromachining), equipment and manufacturing methods used for device fabrication, as well as process development and validation within a regulated manufacturing environment to support activities both in-house and in collaboration with contract manufacturer(s).
- Experience with advanced materials such as polymers, stainless steel, platinum, hydrophilic coatings, and nitinol, as well as related precision fabrication and processing/machining techniques (e.g., tube drawing, coil winding, braiding, laser processing, grinding, EDM, CNC).
- Must be able to travel domestically and internationally, as necessary.
Salary Range: $160,000 - 185,000 annually
Please note that the salary information is a general guideline only. Imperative Care considers factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, key skills, and internal equity, as well as location, market and business considerations when extending an offer.
Join Us! Apply Today
Imperative Care Campbell, California, USA Office
Dell Ave, Campbell, CA, United States, 95008
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