Senior Discovery Engineer - Digital

Ambu; Augsburg; Hybrid; EUR 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Ambu is seeking a Senior Discovery & Digital Innovation Engineer to join the Discovery organization and help identify and mature future growth opportunities beyond the current product portfolio.

The role sits at the intersection of healthcare, technology, business creation, and digital capabilities, translating insights into strategic recommendations, prototypes, and business cases.

Qualifications

• Educational background in engineering or a related technical field.
• Significant experience in medical devices or healthcare technology.
• Ability to identify, evaluate, and mature opportunities into strategic recommendations.
• Strong mix of technical understanding and commercial curiosity.
• Ability to influence across diverse stakeholders and communicate clearly.
• Master's degree or higher in engineering, medical tech, life sciences, healthcare tech, or related field.
• Experience in digital health, AI/ML, computer vision, data analytics, or software-enabled medical devices is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Identify and evaluate adjacent business opportunities and emerging digital technologies.
• Translate insights into opportunity assessments, strategic recommendations, and early-stage business cases.
• Build relationships with clinicians, researchers, hospitals, startups and innovation ecosystems.
• Evaluate and mature technologies including AI, ML, computer vision, data analytics, automation, robotics, imaging.
• Develop proof-of-concept solutions and feasibility assessments.
• Collaborate across functions to assess customer value, market potential, feasibility, and fit.
• Drive opportunities through Discovery processes from insight to validated recommendations.

Skills

Engineering background

Commercial curiosity

Stakeholder engagement

Communication

Education

Master's degree in engineering or related field

Job description

Senior Discovery & Digital Innovation Engineer

If you're excited by emerging technologies, enjoy exploring new ideas, and want to help shape the future of healthcare, this could be the opportunity for you.

You will join Ambu's Discovery organization and play a key role in identifying and maturing future growth opportunities beyond our current product portfolio. Working at the intersection of healthcare, technology innovation, business creation, and digital capabilities, you will help uncover and evaluate ideas that could become Ambu's next generation of products, services, and business platforms.

Collaborating with colleagues across engineering, clinical, commercial, and innovation functions, you will engage with clinicians, researchers, hospitals, startups, and innovation ecosystems to understand unmet needs, explore technology trends, and translate insights into opportunity assessments, business cases, prototypes, and strategic recommendations.

This is a unique opportunity to combine technical curiosity, commercial thinking, and stakeholder engagement in a role that offers significant visibility and the chance to influence future strategic decisions. If you thrive in an environment where innovation, creativity, and collaboration are valued, we'd love to hear from you.

We believe the best ideas come from a mix of in-person collaboration and focused individual work. That's why this role is based in Augsburg or Ballerup and follows a hybrid working model, with three days per week in the office and two days working from home.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify and evaluate adjacent business opportunities, changing clinical practices, unmet needs, reimbursement developments, future healthcare trends, and emerging digital technologies.
• Translate clinical, market, and technology insights into actionable opportunity assessments, strategic recommendations, value propositions, and early-stage business cases.
• Build relationships with clinicians, key opinion leaders, researchers, hospitals, startups, and innovation ecosystems to gain early access to emerging needs, technologies, and opportunities.
• Evaluate and mature emerging technologies and digital capabilities, including AI, machine learning, computer vision, healthcare data analytics, automation, robotics, imaging, and software-enabled medical devices, through fast prototypes and demos to make the idea tangible
• Develop proof-of-concept solutions, innovation demonstrators, and feasibility assessments to support strategic decision-making.
• Collaborate across engineering, clinical, commercial, and innovation functions to assess customer value, market potential, competitive landscape, technical feasibility, and strategic fit.
• Drive promising opportunities through Discovery processes and decision gates, from early insight to validated recommendations and development readiness.

Suggested candidate profile

• Have an educational background in engineering or a related technical field and be comfortable applying engineering principles to evaluate emerging technologies, technical feasibility, and future product opportunities.
• Have significant experience within medical devices, healthcare technology, software, digital health, or other innovation-driven industries, combined with practical experience working in product development, innovation, or business creation environments.
• Have demonstrated the ability to identify, evaluate, and mature new opportunities and to develop strategic recommendations, value propositions, business cases, or innovation initiatives.
• Combine strong technical understanding with commercial curiosity and an interest in how emerging technologies can create future business value.
• Are comfortable navigating complex organizations and collaborating with stakeholders across technical, clinical, commercial, and leadership functions.
• Communicate and influence effectively across diverse audiences and can explain complex concepts in a clear and compelling way.
• Bring a strong understanding of healthcare, innovation processes, and commercial considerations, supported by a master's degree or higher in engineering, medical technology, life sciences, healthcare technology, business, or a similar field.
• Ideally bring experience in one or more of the following areas: digital health, AI or machine learning, computer vision, healthcare data analytics, software-enabled medical devices, in innovation management, product management, workflow automation, robotics, or emerging imaging technologies.

Ambu - a visionary and international workplace where your efforts matter

Ambu is a company that expands rapidly and has ambitious growth targets. We meet these targets through interdisciplinary teamwork between motivated and highly skilled employees. Your contributions and efforts are crucial to our success, and by joining us you will get the opportunity to work in an international environment with an informal working culture.

We offer great opportunities for personal development. Furthermore, we offer a wide range of professional, social and financial employee benefits in addition to exciting job challenges and continuous professional and personal development.