The Mission and Values of Treace Medical are the foundation of everything we do. Our mission is to advance the standard of care for the surgical management of bunion and related midfoot deformities. We are committed to operating our business with the highest standards of ethical conduct. We intend to exceed our customers’ expectations through an innovation-driven, high-velocity approach to solving treatment and surgical problems. Our products and services are designed to enable foot and ankle surgeons to improve patient outcomes and reduce healthcare costs, while providing rewarding experiences and opportunities for our employees and stakeholders.
Job DescriptionAs the Principal Design (R&D) Engineer, you will be a contributor that is effective at all activities in the early stages of product development to meet the company’s short and long-term goals.
What you will be responsible for:
Responsible for interpreting raw feedback/ideas into valuable input and appropriately weighing such input against competing factors to ensure that development projects progress toward success
Responsible for contributing to efforts on any project that encounters design related challenges at any point
Responsible for accurately understanding mechanical design and manufacturing problems and exploring a variety of potential solutions
Responsible for supporting the protection of intellectual property (utility patents, design patents, trade secrets)
Developing mechanical devices for surgical use by appropriately applying knowledge about mechanical interactions (motion ratios, controlling degrees of freedom, binding, buckling, toggle, flex, galling, stiffness, wear, fatigue, user-interface, spring members, mechanical advantage/disadvantage) and static/dynamic loading at relevant scales (human factors, hand tools, powered tools, anatomic loading, surgical instruments).
Daily, proficient use of CAD 3D modeling software such that concepts can be synthesized from raw thoughts to representative models in a timely manner.
- Education and Experience: Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent engineering discipline
- 7+ years’ mechanical design and manufacturing experience of which 3+ years are product development experience bringing innovative product to market from conception to launch in a regulated industry.
- Medical device experience preferred.
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Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. is a medical technology company with the goal of advancing the standard of care for the surgical management of bunion deformities and related midfoot correction. Bunions are complex 3-dimensional deformities that originate from an unstable joint in the middle of the foot and affect approximately 67 million Americans1, of which Treace estimates 1.1 million are annual surgical candidates. Treace Medical has pioneered and patented the Lapiplasty® 3D Bunion Correction® system – a combination of instruments, implants, and surgical methods designed to surgically correct all 3 planes of the bunion deformity and secure the unstable joint, addressing the root cause2,3 of the bunion. At Treace Medical Concepts, Inc., our mission is to advance the standard of care for the surgical management of bunions and related midfoot deformities. Treace Medical offers the Adductoplasty® System, the Hammertoe PEEK Fixation System, the SpeedPlate™ System, and other ancillary
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