Imperative Care · 1 month ago
Staff R&D Engineer, Sustaining
Campbell, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$153K/yr - $164K/yr
8+ years expImperative Care is revolutionizing stroke treatment through innovative technologies. The Staff R&D Engineer, Sustaining will be responsible for the design, development, and manufacturability of new and existing endovascular/neurovascular products, while also mentoring junior engineers and leading cross-functional project teams.
Health CareMedicalMedical Device
Responsibilities
Drive innovation and ensure products achieve best-in-class performance while promoting manufacturability and meeting cost targets
Use advanced expertise to work directly with customer representatives, marketing, physicians, pre-clinical engineering, and regulatory affairs to understand user interactions, identify product opportunities, and develop comprehensive product requirements
Lead design-focused risk analysis activities, product verification and validation test planning, and oversee product test development and execution
Research and advise on new vendors, materials, and/or processes
Play a key technical role in a project team, evaluating assigning appropriate R&D engineering resources to meet project milestones
Lead cross-functional project team to ensure products are designed, developed, and manufactured in compliance with customer needs, company quality systems, budget, schedule and regulatory requirements of the countries into which the products will be marketed
Oversee that technical activities are properly documented and work together with process development to create manufacturing processes for a successful product transfer to manufacturing
Travel to third-party facilities and industry conferences as required
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in engineering, or related discipline and a minimum of 8 years of related experience developing flexible medical device instruments; or equivalent combination of education and work experience in related regulated industry
Statistical analysis Software (Minitab or similar) and CAD (Solidworks, ProE, similar)
Demonstrated knowledge of and exposure to product testing and data collection
High level of expertise with Product Lifecycle Management from proof of concept through manufacturing transfer including documentation control systems and design
Experience working under quality systems designed to meet governmental regulations such as FDA, GMPs, QSR, ISO 13485/9001, and the MDD
Experience leading a technical cross-functional team through all phases of product development. Strong understanding of braiding, laminating, coiling, and laser cutting design and process constraints
Ability to be self-directed with minimal direction and supervision and take initiative to discern from multiple priorities when guiding a technical project team toward efficient solutions and opportunities; ability to multi-task efficiently in a fast-paced environment
Entrepreneurial spirit, a strong foundation in documentation and communications skills required
Ability to work collaboratively in a team setting with strong interpersonal skills
Ability to travel domestically and internationally
Preferred
MS in Engineering and experience in medical device development in a start-up environment
Benefits
A stake in our collective success with stock options
Competitive salaries
A 401k plan
Health benefits
Generous PTO
A parental leave program
Company
Imperative Care
Imperative Care is singularly dedicated to finding meaningful answers to unsolved problems in stroke.
201-500 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (7)
2024 (3)
2023 (5)
2021 (1)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$558.97MKey Investors
Ally Bridge GroupD1 Capital Partners
2024-07-25Series E· $150M
2021-07-15Series D· $260M
2021-01-01Debt Financing· $40M
Leadership Team
Lara Abbaschian
Senior Director, R&D
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