Lead Mechanical Engineer - Integrated Clinical System Development (m/f/d)

Entangled Future; Ulm; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Stock options

Annual health budget (Allianz bKV)

EGYM Wellpass

Onsite work with home-office options

Job summary

NVision Imaging Technologies seeks a Lead Mechanical Engineer to take technical ownership of mechanical development for our Clinical Polarizer. You will lead design decisions, prototype critical solutions, and work across mechanics, fluidics, thermal management, and automation to deliver robust, manufacturable medical devices.

You will drive verification, industrialization, and transfer to manufacturing while maintaining a strong focus on regulatory compliance and product quality.

Qualifications

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience developing complex, integrated technical products and systems.
• Experience in a regulated environment (medical devices, diagnostics, pharma equipment) is a must.
• Experience with structured product development processes (V-model or equivalent).
• Strong hands-on mechanical development and CAD expertise with complex assemblies and BOMs.
• Design for Manufacturing and Design for Assembly to enable industrialization.
• Strong product design judgement balancing performance, usability, manufacturability and quality.
• Experience working across interdisciplinary teams and with external partners.

Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end technical ownership of mechanical development and product design from concept to series introduction.
• Act as technical lead for mechanical and product engineering, guiding architecture and design decisions.
• Develop critical mechanical solutions, assemblies, and subsystems with CAD drawings and BOMs.
• Translate requirements into robust mechanical architectures and designs.
• Solve complex technical challenges with rapid prototyping, testing and iterative development.
• Lead design reviews and engineering decisions balancing performance, cost and regulatory needs.
• Apply DFM and DFA to ensure designs can be manufactured and transferred to production.
• Define and maintain mechanical requirements, specs, and Design History File contributions within a V-model.
• Define and execute mechanical verification activities and support regulatory testing.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve system-level challenges.

Skills

Mechanical design

CAD

Prototyping

Cross-disciplinary teamwork

Product architecture

Education

Degree in Mechanical Engineering / Mechatronics

Job description

• The posting mentions relocation support.

About the role

We are looking for an exceptional Lead Mechanical Engineer (m/f/d) to take technical ownership of the mechanical development and product design of our Clinical Polarizer.

This is a strongly hands-on technical leadership role. You will combine deep mechanical engineering expertise with responsibility for key technical decisions while personally developing, designing and prototyping critical solutions. You will work at the interface of mechanics, fluidics, thermal management, automation and process technology and play a key role in shaping the overall technical direction of the product.

From early concepts and stakeholder requirements through detailed development, verification, industrialization and transfer to manufacturing, you will help turn highly complex technical challenges into robust, manufacturable and clinically outstanding products.

Why us?

• Attractive compensation package, including a competitive base salary and stock options
• Key role in a highly advanced and fast-growing startup company
• Impactful product promoting better understanding and treatment of cancer
• International team, from over 30 different nationalities
• Positive work environment with open communication and a collaborative mindset
• Onsite work at state-of-the-art facilities with home-office opportunities
• Annual health budget (Allianz bKV)
• EGYM Wellpass
• Relocation support if needed

What you'll do

• 01 Take end-to-end technical ownership of the mechanical development and product design, from early concept through industrialization and series introduction.
• 02 Act as the technical lead for mechanical and product engineering, driving key decisions on product architecture, design concepts and critical engineering trade-offs.
• 03 Stay deeply hands-on by developing critical mechanical solutions, assemblies, and subsystems, including CAD designs, technical drawings, and Bills of Materials.
• 04 Translate stakeholder, user and system requirements into robust mechanical architectures and detailed design solutions.
• 05 Solve complex and ambiguous technical challenges through rapid ideation, prototyping, testing and iterative development.
• 06 Lead technical design reviews and engineering decisions, balancing performance, reliability, usability, manufacturability, cost, regulatory requirements and overall product quality.
• 07 Apply Design for Manufacturing and Design for Assembly principles to ensure designs can be reliably industrialized and transferred into production.
• 08 Define and maintain mechanical requirements, specifications, design documentation and Design History File contributions within a structured V-model development process.
• 09 Define and execute mechanical design verification activities and support system-level verification, validation and regulatory testing.
• 10 Work closely with Single-Use Fluid Path Engineering, Process Development, Systems Engineering, Pharma & Regulatory, the Technical Project Manager and external manufacturing and development partners to resolve system-level challenges.

What they're looking for

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related technical field.
• Minimum of 8 years' experience developing complex, integrated technical products and systems, in a senior or technical leadership role.
• Proven track record of taking physical products from early concept and stakeholder requirements through development, verification, validation, industrialization and series introduction is a must-have.
• Experience in a highly regulated environment, ideally medical devices, diagnostics, pharma/biopharma equipment or another regulated industry is a must-have.
• Experience working within structured product development processes such as the V-model or comparable systems engineering frameworks.
• Strong hands-on mechanical development and CAD expertise, including complex assemblies, integrated systems, detailed design, technical drawings and Bills of Materials.
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex, ambiguous and multidisciplinary engineering challenges through rapid prototyping, testing and iterative development.
• Experience with Design for Manufacturing, Design for Assembly and the successful transfer of products into Manufacturing and Operations.
• Strong product design judgement, with the ability to balance technical performance, usability, aesthetics, manufacturability and overall product quality.
• Experience working across interdisciplinary teams and with external development, manufacturing and technology partners, providing clear technical direction where needed.

Interested in this role?

NVision Imaging Technologies, a spin-off from Ulm University's quantum institutes, applies quantum spin control of organic molecules to two platforms: POLARIS, a hyperpolarization system for metabolic MRI, and PIQC, a quantum computing platform built on molecular qubits with photonic interfaces.

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