Our client a leading Medical device start up is hiring a Principal R&D Engineer
Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:
- Lead the development of the Company's novel device from clinical stage through to large scale manufacture
- Lead the product brainstorming sessions to resolve design challenges and generate new responses to user needs.
- Utilise CAD tools such as CREO and SolidWorks to realize complex product designs and manufacturing fixtures.
- Review detailed 2D CAD drawing specifications to control design and for manufacture.
- Develop concepts through to manufacture-readiness using techniques such as injection moulding by considering design for manufacture principles.
- Oversee design transition to production and scale-up.
- Lead the design and execution of testing to support product release
- Design testing programmes to support verification of design against product requirements.
- Analyze test data to support compliance with product requirements.
- Review prototype test data and completing statistical analyses to support design decisions.
- Oversee the documentation of design inputs to design outputs to ensure compliance with relevant standards
- Identify and documenting user needs in collaboration with Clinical, Marketing and Quality colleagues.
- Translate user needs into product requirements.
- Complete literature reviews and technical reports to support documentation of design inputs, test method designs, and product features.
- Owning risk management documents and leading cross-functional design reviews.
- Lead an R&D team through complex medical device design projects to deliver products
- Work closely with the Project Management team to identify goals, track progress, and highlight project technical risks.
- Oversee the work of a team of direct reports and managing inputs from cross-functional collaborators.
- Personally contributing novel and inventive ideas to support patent applications and enhance the company’s IP portfolio.
