Sr. Principal Engineer, Verification & Validation, R&D

Expected Travel: Up to 10%

Requisition ID: 13073

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.

Interventional - The Interventional business unit at Teleflex offers innovative medical devices that are used to diagnose and treat coronary and peripheral vascular diseases. We place a strategic emphasis on complex coronary and peripheral interventions, vascular access, bone access, specialty biologic treatments and cardiac assist.  Our current Interventional products include a broad range of clinically relevant solutions, such as our GuideLiner™ and Turnpike™ Catheters, Ringer™ Perfusion Balloon Catheter, AC3 Optimus™ and AC3 Range™ Intra-Aortic Balloon Pumps and the OnControl™ Powered Bone Access System. Teleflex’s product portfolio now also includes Passeo™-18 Lux™ Peripheral Drug-Coated Balloon Catheter, Pantera™ Lux™ Drug-Coated Balloon Catheter, Orsiro™ Mission™ Drug-Eluting Stent, the PK Papyrus™ Covered Coronary Stent, and more.  With a strong R&D footprint and pipeline, our fast-growing Interventional business unit is poised to continue the development of new technologies to serve critically ill patients for years to come. Join a dynamic, growing team that offers healthcare providers an array of medical technology solutions that make a difference in patients’ lives.

Position Summary

The Sr. Principal Verification and Validation (V&V) Engineer serves as a technical authority and strategic leader across the organization. This role defines and advances V&V strategy and standards across multiple product lines, ensuring that methods, processes, and DHF deliverables drive product excellence, safety, and compliance.  The Sr. Principal Engineer influences design and verification architecture, establishes new test technologies, and guides technical leaders across programs to ensure product alignment with Teleflex’s capabilities and goals.

Principal Responsibilities

Statistical and Problem-Solving Expertise:
•    Design and execute complex statistical studies, including DOE, Gage R&R, and capability analysis.
•    Address non-normality and variability issues, providing actionable insights for product improvement.
•    Conduct test data analysis, identifying outliers, generating data plots, and interpreting statistical outputs.
•    Where gaps between performance and targets exist, lead team in execution of DMAIC problem solving to identify and address root cause.
V&V Leadership:
•    Provides technical leadership across multiple product lines & defines best practices and technology roadmaps.
•    Review and provide feedback on product specifications, user needs and design inputs to ensure requirements are verifiable/validateable and contribute to product safety and efficacy.
•    Where assigned, own the creation of new methods for design characterization to allow selection of optimal design concepts and process technology.
•    Design the structure of flows of testing to optimize cost, time, and accuracy of the data generated, and own the submission of lab requests based on these designs.
•    Develop robust, statistically sound test methods, including tensile, friction force, bending, leak, simulated use, fatigue, and dimensional measurement methods, that minimize sources of variability and product risks.
•    Working with engineers and technicians, lead execution, review, and optimization of test flow design, test method training, execution, and documentation, and statistical analysis (DOE, Gage R&R, TMVs).
•    Serve as the accountable owner for key V&V deliverables such as Test Method Development and Validation, DV plans and protocols, statistical analysis of data, V&V reports, Statistical Sampling Requirements, and Characterization Testing.
Leadership, Mentorship, and Training:
•    Represents Teleflex in cross BU, regulatory, or standards forums.
•    Provides thought leadership & guidance to support