Senior R&D Engineer

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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:

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior R&D Engineer supporting Structural Heart projects within the Interventional Cardiology division. Structural Heart is an exciting growth driver for BSC.  This role will utilize a variety of new and proven technologies to deliver life-changing medical devices to patients and clinicians in support of BSC’s mission.  This role supports a major product line with high visibility which will provide the right candidate with excellent growth potential.

 

The R&D role will work with a team to develop new delivery system products for our left atrial appendage occlusion franchise.  The role will include developing design solutions, prototyping new innovations, designing and executing experiments..  These investments in new technology will drive a robust pipeline for left atrial appendage occlusion that will keep BSC in a market leadership position.

 

Your responsibilities include:

• Providing clear communication to stakeholders at key technical updates

• Leading the design & execution of structured experimental plans to drive data-based decisions.

• Understanding the anatomy, clinical use cases and user interface requirements to drive design decisions.

• Leveraging internal/external partners as necessary to achieve project objectives

• Support and successfully contribute to project teams through the following activities: product design and development, test of materials, preparation of specifications, process capability studies, research investigations (animal and clinical studies), report preparation, and process/test documentation.

• Interfacing with Physicians/Cath Lab personnel to obtain feedback on concepts and performance of new devices.

• Providing work direction to technicians/entry-level engineers

• Actively collaborating with process development, quality, manufacturing, regulatory, clinical, and marketing on complex projects to ensure project success.

 

What we’re looking for:

• BS in Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering or similar

• Required minimum years of work experience (primarily in medical device or related field): 5+ Years with BS, 3+ Years with MS

• Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership on a large-scale development program

• Experience in design simulation tools and analysis techniques

• Solid clinical knowledge and experience in cardiovascular anatomy.

• Experience managing technical aspects of projects as a member of a large cross-functional core team

• Ability to draw conclusions and make recommendations based on technical inputs from multiple and varied sources.

• Excellent organizational, communication and collaboration skills.

 Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated product development leadership and communication skills

• Catheter design and delivery system experience

• Ability to research literature and develop clinical understanding with technical credibility to develop a strategy for regulatory submission

• Class II or Class III Medical Device product development experience

• Solid experimental design and statistical analysis knowledge

• Prior material selection experience for implantable cardiac devices

 

 

 

Requisition ID: 573703

Among other requirements, Boston Scientific maintains specific prohibited substance testing requirements for safety-sensitive positions.  This role is deemed safety-sensitive and, as such, candidates will be subject to a drug test as a pre-employment requirement.  The goal of the drug testing is to increase workplace safety in compliance with the applicable law.  

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