Director, Software Dev Eng, R&D

Expected Travel: Up to 25%

Requisition ID: 13527

 

About Teleflex Incorporated

As a global provider of medical technologies, Teleflex is driven by our purpose to improve the health and quality of people’s lives. Through our vision to become the most trusted partner in healthcare, we offer a diverse portfolio with solutions in the therapy areas of anesthesia, emergency medicine, interventional cardiology and radiology, surgical, vascular access, and urology. We believe that the potential of great people, purpose-driven innovation, and world-class products can shape the future direction of healthcare. 
 
Teleflex is the home of Arrow™, Barrigel™, Deknatel™, LMA™, Pilling™, QuikClot™, Rüsch™, UroLift™ and Weck™ – trusted brands united by a common sense of purpose.
 
At Teleflex, we are empowering the future of healthcare.  For more information, please visit teleflex.com.

 

Vascular Access – Built on a history of innovation, our Arrow™ brand of technically advanced vascular access devices are renowned throughout the world. Many of our vascular access products have antimicrobial and antithrombogenic protection designed to reduce vascular-related complications and include long and short dwell central venous catheters (CVC), sheath introducers, arterial lines, peripherally inserted central catheters (PICC), as well as specialty devices and an advanced vascular positioning system to facilitate precise placement of a PICC or CVC near the heart. Join a dynamic, growing team that offers healthcare providers an array of medical technology solutions that make a difference in patients’ lives.

Position Summary

This leadership position is responsible for leading both new product development and sustaining project efforts forthe Hardware/Software program in alignment with the Vascular Marketing team and in conjunction with VascularAccess product lines. Responsibilities include team development and leadership, technical creation, and executionmanagement of a pipeline of new products, aligned to the strategic plan for the overall business. This role alsosupports the lifecycle management of current navigation technology systems. This role includes the training anddevelopment of personnel (internal and external) and activities associated with requirements planning and productdevelopment of medical devices, electronics, hardware, software, and systems (SaMD and SiMD), in accordancewith medical device including regulatory and international standards. This position is responsible to ensurecompliance with all quality system requirements, as well as the company’s Design Control and ProductDevelopment processes.

Principal Responsibilities

• Lead a multi-site team of Mechanical, Electrical, and Software R&D engineers that support the development ofthe Vascular navigation system.
• At a senior leadership level, this role partners with Global Strategic Marketing on Hardware & Softwarestrategic roadmap development and owns the execution of aligned objectives to support the business objectives.
• Oversee all aspects of new product development from concept through commercialization, including the use ofappropriate tools, standard operating procedures, and testing approaches to build and maintain highly reliable andeffective navigation systems including developing a global strategy of next generation products and services fornavigation devices. Demonstrate strong technical expertise and ability to mentor others in both hardware andsoftware development of connected devices in the healthcare environment (including cybersecurity concerns).
• Develop intuitive product design that allows users easier and earlier adoption and use of Human FactorsEngineering principles.
• Demonstrate strong clinical understanding in the utilization of ECG technology for navigation of medicaldevices in the human circulatory system.
• Project planning, system design, prototyping, hazards/risk/DFMEA/PFMEA, verification, validation, and designtransfer.
• Utilize resource team to execute system development, including 3rd party resources, with current state of theart development approaches, to efficiently prototype and refine development alternatives.
• Ability to effectively balance new product development and current portfolio lifecycle management throughassessment of risks and priority.
• Partner with Design assurance to effectively manage requirements through testing for complex products.
• Contribute to and make recommendations for strategic plans in support of key objectives in a timely andfiscally responsible manner.
• Support and nurture strategic vendor relationships; recommend ways to influence vendors that align to domain,portfolio, and enterprise strategic objectives.
• Provide subject matter expertise to the business to continue to refi