Petal Surgical · 1 day ago
R&D Engineer (Acoustics, Imaging)
Redwood City, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years expPetal Surgical is on a mission to make incisionless surgery the standard of interventional care. The R&D Engineer will be responsible for all processes and results related to acoustic imaging, including strategy, architecture, and execution of ultrasound imaging systems, as well as fostering external partnerships and creating intellectual property.
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Responsibilities
Responsible and accountable for all things, processes, and results related to acoustic imaging as it pertains to incisionless surgery
Serve as the goto person for ultrasound imaging in house
Uphold the organization's vision, mission and culture
Inspire the relentless and rapid pursuit of audacious goals to enable revolutionary innovations in the domain of incisionless surgery
Set strategic initiatives, objectives and key results for the acoustic imaging function
Evaluate and track the Company’s success in meeting its ultrasound imaging goals
Responsible for the strategy, architecture and execution of ultrasound imaging systems from requirements to final validation
Responsible for leading ultrasound engineering decisions that take into account patient safety, effective clinical value, user needs, and usability/user experience
Responsible for delivering an ultrasound imaging platform that integrates with the system hardware, achieves all the clinical goals, and is scalable for future product growth
In conjunction with industry experts and leadership, identify and bring to product realization a state of the art technology that enables an entire new field of therapeutic intervention based on science and first principles, and powered by novel and unique imaging software and algorithms
Responsible for long term strategy, architecture and execution of ultrasound imaging initiatives tied with company level strategic initiatives in alignment with the Technology Lead's strategy
Responsible for external partnerships with ultrasound imaging vendors (research and OEM, universities) in alignment with the Technology Lead's strategy
Responsible for creation of intellectual property in the field of ultrasound imaging and image guidance with a focus on long term value creation in the field of incisionless surgery in alignment with the Technology Lead's strategy
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, software or related
At least 10 years of relevant ultrasound imaging experience in a regulated environment
Must be able to work independently within an environment rich with unsolved science and technology challenges, evolving requirements, and a dynamic team committed to changing the fundamentals of surgery
Must have successfully complied with IEC 60601-2-37, IEC 60601-X standards and other industry stands required to launch a medical device with ultrasound experience
Experience translating ultrasound imaging requirements into design input requirements that have passed design verification and validation
Experience developing and executing an ultrasound imaging test plan with a strategy to enable execution efficiency and a focus on risk analysis
Must have taken one medical ultrasound device through product launch
Experience directly developing products alongside a cross functional organization of clinical, mechanical, electrical and systems engineers
Preferred
Master's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or relevant working experience
At least 15 years of relevant software design and development experience in the medical device industry
Successfully launched three or more medical devices
Must be able to strategize, plan, budget and execute large and ambiguous objectives within their domain
Custom ultrasound imaging Tx/Rx circuit design
Beamforming algorithm development
Elastography, doppler and aberration correction
Company
Petal Surgical
It's time, to make healing human.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$27.68M2025-10-20Series A· $10M
2025-08-29Series Unknown· $8.02M
2025-08-29Debt Financing· $9.66M
Leadership Team
Prash Chopra
Founding CEO & Special Ops (Technology & Execution)
Bowen Jiang, MD
Co-Founder
Recent News
2025-04-11
2025-02-17
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