Staff R&D Engineer

Working Location: MASSACHUSETTS, WESTBOROUGH 

Workplace Flexibility: Hybrid

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Job Description

The Staff R&D Engineer ia responsible for all aspects of product development acting as a individual contributor, or where applicable, as a Core Team Member.  In this role, the Staff R&D Engineer will execute all aspects of product development for Olympus’s Westborough Development Center. In this dynamic role, the Staff R&D Engineer will have the ability to work on a variety of products, supporting multiple Business Units, with successful product launches over time and as project demands warrant. The Staff R&D Engineer will lead or contribute to efforts to define user and product requirements, collaborate with project managers and other Core Team Members on project execution strategy, timelines and costs, lead product design and prototyping efforts, execute product feasibility testing, technical risk reduction planning, design verification and validation testing strategy and testing efforts, lead or contribute to design analysis testing, and ultimately the generation of all design controls documentation in collaboration with external and/or internal development and manufacturing/quality partners. The Staff R&D Engineer is expected to drive design/concept trade-off decisions while taking costs, technical risk, reliability and User Needs into consideration. She / He must fully understand medical device design control requirements, have experience leading technical development efforts, and be effective at communicating advancements and issues to all levels of the organization. 

Job Duties

• Provides technical leadership on product development and/or technology development efforts.
• Envisions, collaborates/communicates, and documents detailed product development strategies while mindful of the interests of all Core Team Members.
• Experienced in developing products utilizing the Core Team Model and skilled with stage gate development processes.
• Experienced in providing technical updates to R&D manager, and/or to an R&D Core Team Member, through weekly discussions and monthly updates.
• Capable of prioritizing and organizing work/efforts based on project priorities.
• Experienced in developing User and Product Requirements.
• Experienced in planning Design Verification and Validation efforts to ensure the product effectively meets all requirements and applicable standards.
• Capable of effectively communicating with Core Team and Extended Team Members, while ensuring all R&D deliverables are completed with a high degree of quality, and attention to detail.
• Collaborates on the development of the technical development schedule and monitors advancement in collaboration with the Project Manager. Reports advancement to Core Team and to R&D Leadership.
• Accountable for all aspects of product development activities and associated deliverables, such as: Design Inputs, specification development, ideation / prototyping and feasibility testing, technical risk mitigation, verification and validation, phase specific readiness review, design reviews, compliance to applicable regulations and standards, compliance to Corporate Product Branding, etc.
• Experienced in robust design analysis, such as tolerance stack-ups, edge of failure testing, high/low specification evaluations, risk analysis, and statistical evaluations as necessary to ensure performance and quality.
• Capable of ideating product designs, and collaborating with manufacturing partners and suppliers, to ensure designs are cost effective and manufacturable.
• Proactively ideates and leads technical risk reduction activities and contingency planning.
• Consults with the Marketing core team member and clinicians to ensure a thorough understanding of the procedure, products use, and environmental factors to ensure appropriate design decisions.
• Manages, directs, and supports suppliers involved in product development and ongoing production, including external design and development partners.
• Helps prepare, and acts as a consultant t