The Role
The Sr Supplier Quality Engineer leads quality engineering support across medical device development and supplier performance improvements, ensuring compliance with regulations and driving supplier quality enhancements.
Summary Generated by Built In
Job Title: Sr Supplier Quality Engineer
Location: This position is based in our Campbell, California offices. This position is full time.
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 quality professional, this role provides Quality Engineering support (may focus on product or supplier quality) across the development, manufacture, and distribution of Imperative Care’s medical device products. This position applies to Quality Engineering principles to ensure compliance with applicable regulations (FDA, ISO 13485) and internal Quality System requirements, while driving continuous improvement across either product or supplier performance.
What You’ll Bring
Employee Benefits include a stake in our collective success with stock options, competitive salaries, a 401k plan, health benefits, generous PTO, and a parental leave program.
Join Us! Apply Today.
Salary Range: $120,000 -151,000
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.
The posted salary range reflects compensation for employees based in the local Bay Area market. For candidates hired outside of this geographic area, compensation may vary and be adjusted based on location, local market conditions, and other factors
Location: This position is based in our Campbell, California offices. This position is full time.
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 quality professional, this role provides Quality Engineering support (may focus on product or supplier quality) across the development, manufacture, and distribution of Imperative Care’s medical device products. This position applies to Quality Engineering principles to ensure compliance with applicable regulations (FDA, ISO 13485) and internal Quality System requirements, while driving continuous improvement across either product or supplier performance.
- Collaborate with suppliers, contract manufacturers, and business partners to ensure robust materials, components, and processes.
- Lead supplier qualification, audits, requalification, and supplier quality agreement activities.
- Own and drive Supplier Quality projects, initiatives, and continuous improvement efforts.
- Partner with Procurement, R&D, Operations, and Supply Chain to resolve supplier-related issues and prevent disruptions.
- Monitor supplier performance metrics, identify risks, and drive improvement actions.
- Manage supplier corrective action processes (SCARs), including tracking, aging metrics, and effectiveness.
- Support and/or lead supplier-related CAPAs, NCRs/NCMRs, and investigations.
- Conduct deep failure analysis on supplier components and drive root cause and corrective actions.
- Implement and manage supplier change control processes, including impact assessment and approvals.
- Lead component and supplier qualification and change projects.
What You’ll Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in business engineering or related discipline and a minimum of 5 years of related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Advanced degree and experience with catheters, endovascular/neurological devices is highly desired
- Experience in medical devices (catheters, endovascular, or neurological) preferred.
- Experience in both product and supplier quality engineering strongly preferred.
- Experience addressing supplier or process issues (CAPAs, NCMR/NCRs, SCARs, etc)
- Demonstrated knowledge of quality system requirements (FDA 21 CFR Part 820, ISO 13485 or ISO 9001), risk management standards (ISO 14971) and good manufacturing practices
- Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal)
- Proven ability to provide thorough and meticulous review of documents
- Proven ability to write clear, concise, and well thought out technical documentation with focus on failure investigations and inspection procedures
Employee Benefits include a stake in our collective success with stock options, competitive salaries, a 401k plan, health benefits, generous PTO, and a parental leave program.
Join Us! Apply Today.
Salary Range: $120,000 -151,000
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.
The posted salary range reflects compensation for employees based in the local Bay Area market. For candidates hired outside of this geographic area, compensation may vary and be adjusted based on location, local market conditions, and other factors
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in business engineering or related discipline
- Minimum of 5 years related experience
- Advanced degree in engineering or highly related field
- Experience with catheters, endovascular or neurological devices
- Experience in medical devices
- Knowledge of quality system requirements (FDA 21 CFR Part 820, ISO 13485)
- Excellent communication skills
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.
