Senior R&D Engineer

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Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.           

 

About the role:

In this exciting role, you will work in the Interventional Spine space to provide expert material science support for new and existing products. Mitigate technical and budgetary risks. Set up, operate, and/or maintain the Engineering Sciences Lab. Conduct and supervise a broad range of experiments from discovery to formal verification/validation testing. Utilize expert experimental methods and statistical techniques. Lead studies for preclinical work including protocol development, scheduling development, planning, test execution, report generation, and assuring compliance to applicable standards. This position will be helping to advance the company’s minimally invasive low back pain technology, Intracept.

 

Work Mode 

This role follows a hybrid work model, requiring employees to be in our Sunnyvale, CA office at least three days per week. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday are the onsite days. The address for the Sunnyvale office is the following: 1230 Midas Way, Suite 200, Sunnyvale, CA 94085.

 

Visa Sponsorship 

Boston Scientific will not offer sponsorship or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.

 

Your responsibilities will include:

• Successful completion of complex engineering work in one or more of the following: technology development, product design and development, test of materials or products, preparation of specifications, process study, research investigation (animal and clinical studies), and report preparation.
• Design of single use disposable medical instruments using injection molding, metals, and special processes.
• Utilizing SolidWorks (or similar) CAD packages for 3D design work
• Leveraging knowledge of sterilization, biocompatibility, shelf life, & packaging to inform design decisions and accelerate project schedules.
• Establishing and maintaining development efforts with leading research universities as required.
• Meeting with global thought leaders in discipline or technology. Studying and understanding relevant published articles and works for application to company projects and initiatives.
• Selection techniques to solve complex problems and make sound design recommendations.
• Summarizing, analyzing, and drawing conclusions from complex test results.
• Designing and preparing complex reports to communicate results to technical community.
• Designing and coordinating complex engineering tests and experiments.
• Coordinating, managing, and documenting project goals and progress and recommending appropriate revisions.
• Assessing the feasibility and soundness of proposed engineering evaluation tests, products, or equipment.
• Translating customer needs into product requirements and design specifications.
• Responsibility for engineering documentation.
• Working cooperatively with process development, quality, manufacturing, regulatory, clinical, and marketing on complex projects to ensure project success.
• May provide training and/or provide work direction to technicians and entry-level engineers.