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Principal R&D Engineer – Spine NPI
| Company | Medtronic |
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| Location | Carlsbad, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $123200 – $184800 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s |
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| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or technical related degree – Mechanical Engineering preferred
- Minimum of 7 years of engineering design and development experience or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of medical device experience – in spine, trauma, orthopaedics, or dental
Responsibilities
- Plans and implements all aspects of multiple simultaneous designs and development of new medical device products from initial design to market release in accordance with agreed project timelines and NPI Development processes.
- Defines medium to high complexity spinal systems and conceptualizes designs that meet the needs and uses of the customer, regulatory agencies, and the business under the guidance of the NPI Engineering Program manager and the Therapy Technical Leader
- Provides technical leadership in the definition, evaluation, and mitigation of risk of system designs. This includes understanding system interfaces, use cases and conditions, investigating and resolving system and design issues, making improvements to address customer feedback and requests, and leading testing activities.
- Engages with customers (internal and external) to understand and prioritize their needs and apply feedback to improve designs
- Translates customer needs into stakeholder and system requirements
- Optimizes designs by designing and conducting relevant tests, experiments, and evaluations, including numerical verification
- Defines and performs verification and validation activities ensuring products meet user needs, system requirements, and intended use
- Writes engineering reports and creates presentations as required to document and communicate results
- Contributes and builds domain knowledge around spinal systems, their clinical use and application via customer and field visits, pre-clinical in vivo labs, literature searches and training
- Documents tradeoffs, rationales, and potential solutions
- Supports documentation throughout all phases of research and development
- Participate in with outside suppliers and consultants to ensure timely delivery
- Investigates and evaluates existing technologies
- Contributes inventions, new designs, and techniques regarded as advances in the medical and technical/scientific community
- Provides training, and mentorship to less experienced team members and learn from more experienced team members
- Maintains training and ensures personal understanding of all quality policy/system items that are applicable. Follow all work/quality procedures to ensure quality system compliance and high-quality work
Preferred Qualifications
- Engineering MS degree preferred
- Clinical knowledge for uses of products
- Knowledge of spinal anatomy relative to surgical procedures
- Experience in use of systems engineering methodologies including requirements development, analysis, allocation, review, tracing, and verification/validation
- Ability to effectively communicate and work collaboratively with others as member of a team
- In-depth knowledge and wide application of technical principles, theories, and concepts in related field of expertise to develop innovative approaches to work
- Knowledge of manufacturing processes including machining and 3D printing
- Understanding of spinal medical device industry and competitor products. Working knowledge of other disciplines.
