Senior Quality Engineer

Job Title

Senior Quality Engineer

Job Description

As a Senior Quality Engineer, you will play a critical role in ensuring the quality and compliance of life-saving medical devices by leading investigations, driving continuous improvement, and strengthening the quality system. You’ll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including Manufacturing, Research and Development, Regulatory, and Supplier Quality, serving as a key voice in sustaining product quality. This role offers the opportunity to deepen expertise in risk management, test method validation, and regulatory compliance, with potential for cross-site collaboration and occasional travel, all while contributing to a high-impact, patient-focused mission.

Your role:

• Serve as the primary Quality representative for sustaining activities, including assessment of change notifications, support for design modifications to released products, resolution of quality issues, and identification of continuous improvement opportunities.

• Author, revise, and coordinate the implementation of Quality System procedures to ensure ongoing compliance with regulatory and internal requirements.

• Manage the Nonconforming Material process and lead the Materials Review Board (MRB); support related quality system activities including CAPAs (corrective and preventative action), SCARs (supplier corrective action request), complaints, equipment events, and out-of-specification (OOS) findings.  Facilitate and lead cross-functional teams in structured problem-solving efforts, from root cause analysis to implementation and verification of corrective actions.

• Ensure risk management activities remain effective throughout the product lifecycle by leveraging data from validations, post-market surveillance, manufacturing trends, CAPAs, NCRs (nonconformance report), and internal investigations.

• Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) and mentor in Quality System elements, with particular expertise in design and production process controls, and test method validation (TMV).

You're the right fit if:

• You’ve acquired 5+ years of experience in the medical device or other regulated industry.

• Your skills include experience with FDA requirements 21 CFR 820, knowledge of regulations such as GMP, ISO 13485 and other international regulatory requirements as well as experience with class III permanent implantable medical devices or combination product.

• You have a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering, life sciences, or another related field.

• You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position.

• You’re a go-getter with proficiency in a statistical software package (such as Minitab).

How we work together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

This is an office role.

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