The Role
Lead and support lifecycle management of endovascular products, including design development, verification/validation, manufacturability assessments, prototyping, requirements/specifications, and testing. Investigate field issues and perform root-cause analysis. Collaborate cross-functionally, engage suppliers and manufacturing partners, refine designs from market feedback, and support commercialization, training, and supporting materials.
Summary Generated by Built In
Job Title: Sr R&D Engineer, Sustaining
Location: This position is based in our Campbell, California offices. This position is onsite & 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
As a senior professional, this position will lead and support the design and on-going life cycle management of endovascular products through design development, verification/validation, and manufacturability assessments. This role will deliver ideation and prototyping, establishing requirements/specifications and verification of inputs and outputs.
What You’ll Bring
Employee Benefits include a stake in our collective success with stock options, bonus, competitive salaries, a 401k plan, health benefits, generous PTO, and a parental leave program.
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Salary Range: $132,000 - 150,000/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.
Location: This position is based in our Campbell, California offices. This position is onsite & 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
As a senior professional, this position will lead and support the design and on-going life cycle management of endovascular products through design development, verification/validation, and manufacturability assessments. This role will deliver ideation and prototyping, establishing requirements/specifications and verification of inputs and outputs.
- Serve as technical team member or lead projects based on value improvement, line extensions, and compliance on commercialized products
- Respond to technical field inquiries and perform root-cause investigations on product failures.
- Establish and/or tune detailed requirements including product specifications and appropriate test methods through activities such as competitive testing, literature review and KOL engagement. And refine designs in response to market and customer feedback
- Collaborate cross-functionally to support development and commercialization of the product platform and facilitate user training and create supporting materials required.
- Identify, establish, and maintain partnerships with OEM component suppliers, manufacturing partners and/or testing vendors as the project requires.
What You’ll Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, or related discipline and a minimum of 5 years of related experience in the medical device or related regulated industry; or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
- Experience in endovascular or neurovascular techniques and devices preferred.
- Developing knowledge of product design from concept to regulatory marketing approval.
- Statistical analysis Software (Minitab or similar) and CAD (Solidworks, ProE, similar).
- Ability to complete projects individually as well as part of a team, exercising judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
Employee Benefits include a stake in our collective success with stock options, bonus, competitive salaries, a 401k plan, health benefits, generous PTO, and a parental leave program.
Join Us! Apply Today.
Salary Range: $132,000 - 150,000/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.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or related discipline and a minimum of 5 years related experience in the medical device or regulated industry (or equivalent combination).
- Experience in endovascular or neurovascular techniques and devices.
- Developing knowledge of product design from concept to regulatory marketing approval.
- Experience with design development, verification/validation, and manufacturability assessments.
- Statistical analysis software (Minitab or similar).
- CAD experience (SolidWorks, ProE, or similar).
- Ability to complete projects individually and as part of a team, exercising judgment within defined procedures.
Imperative Care Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Imperative Care and has not been reviewed or approved by Imperative Care.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Posted salary bands for multiple roles are explicit and compare favorably to U.S. norms in several functions. Publicly listed ranges help anchor expectations and indicate a market‑competitive stance.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Stock options are consistently included as part of offers and total rewards. Equity is positioned as a meaningful component alongside base pay and, in some roles, bonus.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Company materials highlight generous PTO and a parental leave program as standard benefits. Multiple postings reiterate these time‑off elements across roles.
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The Company
What We Do
Imperative Care is a Silicon Valley-based medical technology company focused on developing the next generation of innovative solutions to address the vast and urgent needs in stroke intervention and peripheral thrombectomy. With a physician-driven approach and a culture of rapid innovation, we are working to improve every aspect of the stroke procedure with the goal of bringing patients the best care possible. We have two 510(k) cleared product platforms, as well as an expansive technology development pipeline. Follow us for updates as we work to change the way stroke is treated. For important safety and risk information, visit bit.ly/3yWkfEJ.
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