Senior R&D Engineer Sustaining

Innovation - Diversity - 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.           

R&D Senior Engineer, Peripheral Interventions Sustaining Engineering

Arden Hills, MN Onsite

The Implantable Hardware R&D team is looking for an experienced Mechanical Engineer with extraordinary potential to apply their expertise in the definition, design, and development of active implantable medical devices. As a member of the implantable mechanical hardware design team, you will make important contributions to the development of first-of-a-kind, life-changing medical devices through the design and testing of electromechanical implantable devices.  As a Senior Engineer, you will have the opportunity to own and drive portions of the design while being part of an experienced design team providing significant technical and career growth opportunities. 

Purpose 

This role is for an innovative technical contributor who shall sustain technology, products, materials, processes or equipment of moderate complexity for BSC’s Implantable R&D division.  As a member of a team, you will develop, direct and execute plans for a segment of complex projects. Under limited supervision/guidance, you will compile, analyze and report operational, test and research data to establish/verify performance standards for products, processes and materials.

Key Responsibilities

• Successfully contributes to project teams typically including the following activities: sustaining engineering, design change strategy, test of materials, preparation of specifications, process capability studies, research investigations, report preparation and test documentation.
• Leads design change to ensure the proposed changes are systematically and thoroughly analyzed to verify that the design intent is still met.
• Maintain product performance through support of Quality Investigations
• Works independently to plan and schedule own activities necessary to meet timelines
• Designs and coordinates standard engineering tests and experiments
• Designs, procures and fabricates tooling and fixtures
• Performs troubleshooting on products/process problems as related to design, material or process
• Summarizes, analyzes and draws conclusions from test results
• Prepares standard reports/documentation to communicate results to technical community
• Responsible for engineering documentation
• Invents/creates concepts and designs for new products/processes, and submits idea disclosures
• May train and/or provide work direction to technicians