The Role
The Senior R&D Test Engineer develops test methods and maintains testing technologies to evaluate medical devices, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
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Job Title: Senior R&D Test Engineer
Location: This position is based in our Campbell, California offices. This position is on-site and 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
The Senior R&D Test Engineer plays a key role in developing safe and effective devices. Working from the customer and design requirements, this position has a critical eye on the physical behavior of the Company’s products. Together with cross-functional partners, you will share the responsibility of developing and realizing the full potential of our technology. The successful candidate will have entrepreneurial spirit, the required persistence to succeed in a start-up environment, and the ability to work in a self-directed manner with minimal direction and supervision. This position is responsible for designing and documenting test methods and associated fixturing/automation to support both explorative, characterization, and formal verification testing of the Company’s products.
Salary Range: $129,000 – 140,000 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. As part of our total rewards package, Imperative Care offers comprehensive benefits including a 401k plan, health benefits, generous PTO, a parental leave program and emotional health resources.
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Location: This position is based in our Campbell, California offices. This position is on-site and 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
The Senior R&D Test Engineer plays a key role in developing safe and effective devices. Working from the customer and design requirements, this position has a critical eye on the physical behavior of the Company’s products. Together with cross-functional partners, you will share the responsibility of developing and realizing the full potential of our technology. The successful candidate will have entrepreneurial spirit, the required persistence to succeed in a start-up environment, and the ability to work in a self-directed manner with minimal direction and supervision. This position is responsible for designing and documenting test methods and associated fixturing/automation to support both explorative, characterization, and formal verification testing of the Company’s products.
- Your key responsibility is to measure and quantify the physical characteristics and performance of the device by experimental design. Your knowledge of solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, engineering statistics, and other areas of testing and analysis should translate into hardware and software implementations of repeatable test methods.
- Develop test methods and equipment for evaluating and comparing performance of devices for concept selection, design optimization, and design verification in close collaboration with the preclinical and design groups.
- Good communication with peers and management in the continuous feedback loop between device design, preclinical, and testing is essential.
- Develop and maintain the company’s bench testing technologies & competencies. Including test method validation and training.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners to identify opportunities, implement new solutions, and incorporate continuous improvements stemming from technology advancement, FDA feedback, and/or applicable standards
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, or related discipline and a minimum of 5 years of related experience or master’s degree in engineering with 2 years of related experience in the medical device or related regulated industry; or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
- Experience with product testing, test method development, test method validation and automated data collection.
- Strong SolidWorks CAD skills or similar experience.
- Ability to design and document test fixtures including the generation of technical drawings.
- Working knowledge of standard laboratory equipment such as mechanical tests frames, load cells, pressure sensors, environmental conditioning chambers, scales, etc.
- Use of statistical analysis techniques, gage R&R, & DOE.
- Excellent problem-solving abilities and mathematical aptitude.
- Programming experience in Matlab, Simulink, Python, C++, or other applicable languages is a plus.
- Experience designing automated equipment is a plus.
- Strong fundamentals in fluid mechanics and/or experience with computational fluid dynamics is a plus.
- Must be self-directed and motivated and able to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience working under regulated quality systems such as GMPs, ISO 13485/9001, and the MDD.
- Familiar with Design Control procedures and requirements.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills required.
- Must be able to travel up to 10% of the time.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office products.
Salary Range: $129,000 – 140,000 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. As part of our total rewards package, Imperative Care offers comprehensive benefits including a 401k plan, health benefits, generous PTO, a parental leave program and emotional health resources.
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Top Skills
C++
Matlab
Python
Simulink
Solidworks
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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.
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