Staff Mechanical Engineer, R&D

Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we're developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments.

Are you passionate about improving and expanding the possibilities of Cardiovascular? Ready to join a team thats reimagining how we heal? Our Cardiovascular team develops leading solutions for heart recovery, electrophysiology, and stroke. You will join a proud heritage of continually elevating standards of care for stroke, heart failure and atrial fibrillation (AFib) patients.

Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness.

Purpose: The Staff Research & Development Engineer will be supporting project teams in the development of electrophysiology catheters and systems at Biosense Webster and provides advice and mentorship to less experienced personnel. Project support includes overall design, requirement development, design for manufacturing, test method development, and product verification and validation testing.

You will be responsible for:

• Leading the design of new or existing components and/or devices while ensuring that all design requirements are met.
• Developing customer requirements and product specifications with validated test methods.
• Supporting or leading quality improvement initiatives such as process and product characterizations that lead to continuous / cost improvements.
• Studying specifications, engineering blueprints, tool orders, and shop data and conferring with engineering and shop personnel to resolve design problems.
• Interface between external vendors and core team.
• Presenting project work across management levels and to customers and authoring scientific publications and patents in support of key technologies.
• Traveling to customer sites, domestic and international, to gather VOC, perform testing and/or perform troubleshooting activities.
• Performing design reviews and pre-validation assessments to ensure the safe and environmentally sound processes and designs.
• Providing technical mentoring to less experienced engineers and technicians.
• Responsible for the purchase or design of equipment that meets health, safety and environmental standards set by the company.
• Ensuring personal and company compliance with all Federal, State, local and company regulations, policies and procedures for Health, Safety and Environmental compliance.

Qualifications:

• A bachelor's degree in mechanical or biomedical engineering with 6 years of experience, or a Master's degree with 4 years of experience, or PhD with 2 years of industrial experience.
• 3 years' experience in early stage (pre-design freeze) catheter and/or cardiovascular device development preferred.
• Minimum 1 year as team or project technical lead.
• Experience with CAD software such as SolidWorks required.
• Strong understanding of engineering materials, component selection, and design for reliability and manufacturability required.
• Knowledge and experience in product development processes preferred.
• Strong understanding of data analysis and statistics including design of experiments, Gage R&R, capability, etc. preferred.
• Must possess strong communication skills, written and verbal.
• Ability to solve complex problems.
• Ability to travel up to 10% domestic and international is required.

The anticipated base pay range for this position is: $105,000-$165,000.

The Company maintains highly competitive, performance-based compensation programs. Under current guidelines, this position is eligible for an annual performance bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan. The annual performance bonus is a cash bonus intended to provide an incentive to achieve annual targeted results by rewarding for individual and the corporations performance over a calendar/performance year. Bonuses are awarded at the Companys discretion on an individual basis. Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance. Employees may be eligible to participate in the Companys consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)). This position is eligible to participate in the Companys long-term incentive program. Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits: Vacation up to 120 hours per calendar year Sick time - up to 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington up to 56 hours per calendar year Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays up to 13 days per calendar year Work, Personal and Family Time up to 40 hours per calendar year.

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