Sr R&D Test Engineer

Imperative Care; Campbell (CA); On-site; USD 132,000 - 158,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health benefits

401k plan

Generous PTO

Parental leave

Job summary

Imperative Care in Campbell, CA is seeking a Senior R&D Test Engineer for an on-site, full-time role with up to 10% travel. You will measure device performance and develop robust test methods that support concept selection, design verification, and reliability.

Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you will design fixtures, analyze data, document procedures, and help advance our medical devices to improve patient outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering with 5+ years of related experience, or Master’s degree with 2 years in medical devices or related regulated industry.
• Experience with product testing, test method development, test method validation and automated data collection.
• Ability to design and document test fixtures including generation of technical drawings.
• Working knowledge of laboratory equipment such as mechanical test frames, load cells, pressure sensors, environmental chambers, scales.
• Use of statistical techniques, gage R&R, and DOE.
• Strong fundamentals in fluid mechanics; CFD a plus.
• Experience with GMPs, ISO 13485/9001, and MDD.
• Travel up to 10%.

Responsibilities

• Measure and quantify the device's physical characteristics through experimental design.
• Develop test methods and equipment for evaluating and comparing performance of devices for concept selection, design optimization, and design verification with cross-functional teams.
• Maintain effective communication with peers and management in a continuous feedback loop between design, preclinical, and testing teams.
• Develop and maintain bench testing technologies and competencies, including test method validation and training.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to identify opportunities, implement new solutions, and incorporate improvements from technology, FDA feedback, and standards.

Skills

Test method development

Automated data collection

Fixture design

Statistical analysis

Gage R&R

DOE

Fluid mechanics

Regulated quality systems

Experimental design

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Master’s degree in engineering

Tools

Mechanical test frames

Load cells

Pressure sensors

Job description

Senior R&D Test Engineer

Location: This position is based in our Campbell, California offices. This position is on-site and full-time with some travel.

Why Imperative Care?

Do you want to make a real impact on patients? Imperative Care is changing the way stroke is treated. As part of our team, you’d be developing breakthroughs that will revolutionize the future of stroke care. Every day, the technologies that we develop at Imperative Care directly impact human lives. Our focus is on the needs of the patient, and they come first in everything we do.

What You’ll Do

The Senior R&D Test Engineer plays a key role in developing safe and effective devices. Working from the customer and design requirements, this position has a critical eye on the physical behavior of the Company’s products. Together with cross-functional partners, you will share the responsibility of developing and realizing the full potential of our technology. The successful candidate will have entrepreneurial spirit, the required persistence to succeed in a start-up environment, and the ability to work in a self-directed manner with minimal direction and supervision. This position is responsible for designing and documenting test methods and associated fixturing/automation to support both explorative, characterization, and formal verification testing of the Company’s products.

• Your key responsibility is to measure and quantify the physical characteristics and performance of the device by experimental design. Your knowledge of solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, engineering statistics, and other areas of testing and analysis should translate into hardware and software implementations of repeatable test methods.
• Develop test methods and equipment for evaluating and comparing performance of devices for concept selection, design optimization, and design verification in close collaboration with the preclinical and design groups.
• Good communication with peers and management in the continuous feedback loop between device design, preclinical, and testing is essential.
• Develop and maintain the company’s bench testing technologies & competencies. Including test method validation and training.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to identify opportunities, implement new solutions, and incorporate continuous improvements stemming from technology advancement, FDA feedback, and/or applicable standards.

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, or related discipline and a minimum of 5 years of related experience or master’s degree in engineering with 2 years of related experience in the medical device or related regulated industry; or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Experience with product testing, test method development, test method validation and automated data collection.
• Ability to design and document test fixtures including the generation of technical drawings.
• Working knowledge of standard laboratory equipment such as mechanical tests frames, load cells, pressure sensors, environmental conditioning chambers, scales, etc.
• Use of statistical analysis techniques, gage R&R, & DOE.
• Strong fundamentals in fluid mechanics and/or experience with computational fluid dynamics is a plus.
• Experience working under regulated quality systems such as GMPs, ISO 13485/9001, and the MDD.
• Must be able to travel up to 10% of the time.

Employee Benefits

Employee Benefits include a stake in our collective success with stock options, competitive salaries, a 401k plan, health benefits, generous PTO, and a parental leave program.

Salary Range: $132,000 – 158,000 annually

Please note that the salary information is a general guideline only. Imperative Care considers factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, key skills, and internal equity, as well as location, market and business considerations when extending an offer. As part of our total rewards package, Imperative Care offers comprehensive benefits including a 401k plan, health benefits, generous PTO, a parental leave program and emotional health resources.