Lead, Enabling Technologies - Medical Devices

Encore Medical LP; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Spending and Savings Accounts

401(k) Plan

Vacation, Sick Leave, and Holidays

Income Protection Plans

Discounted Insurance Rates

Legal Services

Job summary

Enovis is seeking an Enabling Technologies Technical Lead in Austin, TX. You will provide technical leadership across multidisciplinary medical device development, drive architecture and robust solutions, and collaborate with regulatory, clinical, and manufacturing teams to ensure safe, effective products.

The role requires guiding design reviews, leading engineering teams, and advancing innovations in navigation, visualization, and sensor technologies within a compliant lifecycle framework.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related technical discipline; Master's degree preferred.
• Minimum 7 years of experience developing complex medical devices or related technology products.
• Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Strong systems engineering background integrating software, electronics, mechanical systems, and algorithms.
• Experience with medical device design controls and product development processes.
• Strong understanding of system architecture, risk management, verification/validation, and product lifecycle management.
• Excellent analytical, organizational, leadership, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across multidisciplinary product development programs from concept through commercialization.
• Define and maintain overall system architecture, ensuring seamless hardware/software integration.
• Lead technical design reviews covering architecture, software, embedded systems, algorithms, electronics, mechanical designs, manufacturability, usability, and clinical workflow.
• Drive development of navigation, visualization, computer vision, sensor fusion, image processing, automation, and other enabling technologies.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Clinical, Systems Engineering, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Manufacturing, and Program Management to translate requirements into robust solutions.
• Provide technical leadership throughout the medical device development lifecycle, ensuring FDA, MDR, IEC, and ISO compliance.
• Mentor multidisciplinary engineering teams while fostering technical excellence and sound engineering practices.
• Identify technical risks across hardware, software, instrumentation, algorithms, manufacturing, and clinical workflows and mitigate.
• Support verification, validation, usability engineering, and design transfer activities.
• Evaluate emerging technologies for future product roadmaps.
• Partner with Manufacturing to ensure designs are robust, manufacturable, serviceable, and scalable.
• Drive innovation through invention disclosures, patent development, and technology roadmaps.

Skills

Systems engineering

Leadership

Multidisciplinary teams

Medical device design

Regulatory compliance

Communication skills

Software/hardware integration

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Master's degree preferred

Job description

Enovis is seeking an Enabling Technologies Technical Lead in Austin, TX. You will provide technical leadership across multidisciplinary medical device development, drive architecture and robust solutions, and collaborate with regulatory, clinical, and manufacturing teams to ensure safe, effective products.

The role requires guiding design reviews, leading engineering teams, and advancing innovations in navigation, visualization, and sensor technologies within a compliant lifecycle framework.