SonicPrecision: Technical Project Lead

HightechXL; Eindhoven; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Ownership of a programme

Stock Appreciation Rights

Founding team collaboration

Salary commensurate with experience

Holiday allowance 8% + 25 days

Access to ecosystem

Flat international team

Flexible hours

Job summary

SonicPrecision is seeking a Technical Project Lead to convert our technology strategy into a practical development program, backed by evidence. You will align people, technology, suppliers, and experiments to hit milestones on time and within budget, with clear regulatory support.

You will coordinate cross-disciplinary teams, manage partners (CARIM / MUMC+), and ensure ISO 13485 and EU MDR requirements are addressed from day one. English is the working language; Dutch is a bonus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s in an engineering field related to the role.
• 1-3 years experience; graduation project counts.
• Experience in regulated industries is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Turn the product and technology roadmap into a milestone-driven plan with workpackages and owners.
• Keep the programme schedule up to date and raise risks early.
• Organise milestone reviews and ensure regulatory documentation (ISO 13485, EU MDR).
• Connect R&D Engineer, Clinical Scientist, System Engineer and founding team.
• Manage suppliers, CROs and academic partners; translate agreements into deliverables.
• Coordinate technical input for grant reporting and investor updates.
• Keep a risk register, track budget spend, and present make-or-buy options.
• Maintain structured, audit-ready documentation from day one.

Skills

Milestone planning

Risk management

Cross-functional coordination

Regulatory awareness

English communication

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in industrial engineering

Bachelor’s or Master’s in systems engineering

Bachelor’s or Master’s in biomedical engineering

Bachelor’s or Master’s in technical medicine

Job description

About SonicPrecision

SonicPrecision is a spin-out from Philips. We build near-field ultrasound sensing into the tip of a cardiac ablation catheter. This lets heart-rhythm specialists see, during the procedure itself, whether the treated tissue is fully and permanently treated. Today they cannot, and that is the main reason why so many patients with ventricular tachycardia, one of the hardest heart-rhythm disorders to treat, have to come back for a second procedure.

We hold an exclusive licence to the underlying Philips technology and patents. Our pre-clinical programme runs with CARIM at Maastricht University; our technical programme with TU Eindhoven. The next milestone is our first study in patients. Everything between now and then has to go according to plan, and that is where you come in.

The role

As Technical Project Lead, you turn our technology strategy into a development programme that works in practice and is backed by evidence. You bring people, technology, suppliers, and experiments together so that every milestone is reached on time, within budget, and with the proof to back it up.

You will:

• Turn the product and technology roadmap into a milestone-driven plan: workpackages, owners, dependencies, resources, timelines
• Keep the programme schedule up to date and raise risks, blockers, and delays early, while there is still time to act
• Organise milestone reviews and make sure each phase produces the regulatory documentation that ISO 13485 and EU MDR require
• Connect the R&D Engineer, Clinical Scientist, System Engineer, and founding team, and keep the technical, clinical, and regulatory workstreams aligned
• Manage suppliers, contract research organisations, and academic partners (CARIM / MUMC+): translate agreements into clear deliverables and make sure partners deliver
• Coordinate technical input for grant reporting and investor updates, together with the founders
• Keep a risk register, compare spending against the budget, and prepare “make or buy” decisions with the facts and options laid out clearly
• Keep technical documentation structured, version-controlled, and audit-ready from day one, and set up the project management basics a CE-marking programme needs

What we are looking for

• Education: Bachelor’s or master’s in industrial engineering, systems engineering, biomedical engineering, technical medicine, or a related technical discipline
• Experience: 1-3 years. A graduation project in medical device development, R&D project coordination, or systems integration counts. Experience in a regulated industry (medical devices, aerospace, semiconductors) is a plus
• Technical grounding: You do not need to be an expert in ultrasound or catheter design, but you need enough engineering understanding to run a critical path, spot gaps in plans, and challenge assumptions
• Structured working style: You think in milestones, dependencies, and risk, and you write things down clearly without being asked
• Regulatory awareness: Knowing ISO 13485, IEC 62304, or the EU MDR lifecycle is a plus; wanting to grow into our in-house expert on this is what really counts
• Communication: Clear written and spoken English. Our working language is English, so Dutch is a bonus and not a requirement
• Mindset: You make sure that things which need to happen, actually happen. You take ownership without needing a formal title

What we offer

• Ownership of a programme that matters: the bridge between technology and patients
• Stock Appreciation Rights: you build the programme, you share the upside
• Direct collaboration with the founding team and technical leads across engineering and clinical science
• Salary in line with your experience and our stage as a start-up, reviewed once a year
• 25 holiday days, 8% holiday allowance, and a travel allowance
• Access to the HighTechXL venture builder ecosystem, the MUMC+ clinical research environment, and TU/e innovation facilities
• A flat, small, international team, flexible hours, and a 40-hour week in which results count, not hours logged

Practical details

• Location: Eindhoven, mainly on site
• Contract: Full-time. A one-year contract to start, with the clear intention to extend
• Start date: Q1 2027, or sooner by mutual agreement
• Application deadline: 1 November 2026; applications reviewed on a rolling basis
• Right to work: You must already have the right to work in the Netherlands; we are not able to act as a recognised sponsor at this stage