Sr R&D Test Engineer

Imperative Care; Kentucky; On-site; USD 132,000 - 158,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

stock options

competitive salaries

a 401k plan

health benefits

generous PTO

parental leave program

Job summary

Imperative Care in Campbell, CA is seeking a Senior R&D Test Engineer to advance safe, effective medical devices. You will design and document test methods and fixtures, perform exploratory and verification testing, and collaborate with design and preclinical teams.

Ideal candidates have a solid background in mechanical testing, CFD or fluid mechanics, experience with GMP/ISO13485 quality systems, and the ability to work independently in a startup environment; travel up to 10% is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering and 5+ years of related experience in medical devices or equivalent.
• Experience with test method development, validation, and automated data collection.
• Ability to design and document test fixtures including technical drawings.
• Working knowledge of GMPs, ISO 13485/9001 and related quality systems.
• Willingness to travel up to 10%.

Responsibilities

• Design and document test methods and fixtures to support exploratory, characterization, and verification testing.
• Develop and maintain bench testing technologies and validation processes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement new testing solutions and improvements.
• Measure physical characteristics and performance of devices using experimental design.

Skills

Test method development

Automated data collection

Test fixture design

Statistical analysis

Fluid mechanics

CFD knowledge

GMP/ISO quality systems

Travel up to 10%

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Master’s degree in engineering (optional)

Tools

Mechanical test frames

Load cells

Pressure sensors

Environmental conditioning chambers

Scales

Gage R&R

DOE

Job description

Job Title: 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

• stock options
• competitive salaries
• a 401k plan
• health benefits
• generous PTO
• 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.