About This Role:
As the Senior Device Quality Engineering Lead, you will hold a pivotal role in ensuring the quality oversight of design control and risk management activities for combination products and medical devices. This senior-level position requires you to work closely with device development teams, medical device suppliers, and testing partners during the design and development phases, extending your support throughout the device lifecycle. Your expertise will drive the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of device-related quality processes and procedures, ensuring compliance with relevant standards and regulatory requirements. By providing strategic guidance and oversight, your role will be integral to the product quality and integrity across all modalities within the organization.
This is a hybrid role that can be located either in Research Triangle Park, NC or Cambridge, MA.
What You’ll Do:
Lead quality engineering guidance and oversight for medical devices and combination products during feasibility, design control, risk management, and lifecycle management.
Define critical quality characteristics for device components and finished devices in collaboration with the device development team.
Support internal and external audits as a device or combination product Subject Matter Expert.
Oversee the quality review and approval of technical documentation, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
Provide input to process manufacturing design and design transfer for robust product realization.
Support asset team strategies for regulatory filings, design control, and risk management.
Lead continuous improvement initiatives for the Quality Management System and lifecycle processes.
Function as the quality representative on cross-functional initiatives and device development programs.
Manage quality assurance interfaces with medical device suppliers and testing partners in collaboration with External Quality.
Who You Are:
You are a detail-oriented and dedicated professional with a passion for quality assurance in the medical device industry. Your analytical mindset allows you to identify areas for improvement and implement effective solutions. You thrive in collaborative environments and are skilled at building strong relationships with internal teams and external partners. Your commitment to regulatory compliance and product quality ensures that you consistently deliver high standards. You have a proactive approach to problem-solving and a continuous improvement mindset that drives you to seek innovative solutions.
Required Skills:
Minimum of a BS in Biomedical/Mechanical Engineering or related technical or scientific discipline.
At least 7 years of experience in medical device and/or combination product industries.
Extensive knowledge of design control and risk management for medical devices.
Strong understanding of regulatory requirements and quality standards.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and initiatives.
Experience in leading continuous improvement initiatives within a Quality Management System.
Familiarity with medical device supplier and testing partner management.
Additional Information
Base salary offered is determined through an analytical approach utilizing a combination of factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills & experience, job location, and internal equity.
Regular employees are eligible to receive both short term and long-term incentives, including cash bonus and equity incentive opportunities, designed to reward recent achievements and recognize your future potential based on individual, business unit and company performance.
In addition to compensation, Biogen offers a full and highly competitive range of benefits designed to support our employees’ and their families physical, financial, emotional, and social well-being; including, but not limited to:
- Medical, Dental, Vision, & Life insurances
- Fitness & Wellness programs including a fitness reimbursement
- Short- and Long-Term Disability insurance
- A minimum of 15 days of paid vacation and an additional end-of-year shutdown time off (Dec 26-Dec 31)
- Up to 12 company paid holidays + 3 paid days off for Personal Significance
- 80 hours of sick time per calendar year
- Paid Maternity and Parental Leave benefit
- 401(k) program participation with company matched contributions
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Tuition reimbursement of up to $10,000 per calendar year
- Employee Resource Groups participation
Why Biogen?
We are a global team with a commitment to excellence, and a pioneering spirit. As a mid-sized biotechnology company, we provide the stability and resources of a well-established business while fostering an environment where individual contributions make a significant impact. Our team encompasses some of the most talented and passionate achievers who have unparalleled opportunities for learning, growth, and expanding their skills. Above all, we work together to deliver life-changing medicines, with every role playing a vital part in our mission. Caring Deeply. Achieving Excellence. Changing Lives.
At Biogen, we are committed to building on our culture of inclusion and belonging that reflects the communities where we operate and the patients we serve. We know that diverse backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives make us a stronger and more innovative company, and we are focused on building teams where every employee feels empowered and inspired. Read on to learn more about Biogen.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, race, color, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. Biogen is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.
Skills Required
- BS in Biomedical, Mechanical Engineering, or related technical/scientific discipline
- At least 7 years of experience in medical device and/or combination product industries
- Extensive knowledge of design control and risk management for medical devices
- Strong understanding of regulatory requirements and quality standards
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and initiatives
- Experience leading continuous improvement initiatives within a Quality Management System
- Familiarity with medical device supplier and testing partner management
Biogen Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Biogen and has not been reviewed or approved by Biogen.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is generally positioned as competitive and often perceived as fair across roles, with total compensation framed as strong when bonus and equity are included. Compensation sentiment is described as above-average overall, though it varies by function and business cycle.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity programs are repeatedly highlighted as a meaningful part of the total package, including stock programs and an employee stock purchase plan. Equity and bonus elements are portrayed as important contributors to feeling well rewarded beyond base pay.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits are described as distinctive, including a year-end shutdown and a paid sabbatical after extended tenure. Vacation, holidays, sick time, and personal-significance days are also presented as supportive of work-life needs.
Biogen Insights
What We Do
Through cutting-edge science and medicine, Biogen discovers, develops and delivers innovative therapies worldwide for people living with serious neurological and neurodegenerative diseases. Founded in 1978, Biogen is a pioneer in biotechnology and today the Company has the leading portfolio of medicines to treat multiple sclerosis, has introduced the first and only approved treatment for spinal muscular atrophy, and is at the forefront of neurology research for conditions including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Biogen also manufactures and commercializes biosimilars of advanced biologics. With approximately 7000 people worldwide, we are truly a global organization, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which is also home to our research operations. Our international headquarters are based in Zug, Switzerland and we have world-class manufacturing facilities in North Carolina and Denmark. We offer therapies globally through direct affiliate presence in 30 countries and a network of distribution partners in over 50 additional countries. For more information, please visit www.biogen.com. Follow us on social media – Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube.








