Senior Discovery Engineer: Healthcare Innovation & Growth

Ambu

Ballerup

Hybrid

DKK 900,000 - 1,800,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Ambu invites applications for a Senior Discovery & Digital Innovation Engineer to explore future growth opportunities at the intersection of healthcare and technology. You will assess clinical needs, market trends, and emerging digital tech, shaping strategic recommendations and business cases.

Based in Augsburg or Ballerup with a hybrid model (three days in the office, two days remote), you will interact with clinicians, researchers, hospitals, startups, and other ecosystems to turn insights

Qualifications

Educational background in engineering or a related technical field.
Significant experience in medical devices, healthcare technology, or digital health.
Ability to identify, evaluate, and mature new opportunities with strategic recommendations.
Combine technical understanding with commercial curiosity and stakeholder engagement.

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.