The Role
Lead design and lifecycle management of endovascular medical devices, driving design development, verification/validation, and manufacturability. Serve as R&D lead on cross-functional teams, mentor junior engineers, liaise with clinicians and regulatory, research vendors/materials, and ensure products meet quality, cost, schedule, and regulatory requirements.
Summary Generated by Built In
Job Title: Staff 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 an advanced 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 position uses advance expertise and deep technical knowledge to design innovative new products and solutions that advance product development initiatives. This role determines best course of action to solve complex situations and serves as the R&D lead on cross-functional project teams, mentoring other junior R&D engineers to contribute to their development.
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.
Join Us! Apply Today.
Salary Range: $160,000 - 185,000 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.
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 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 an advanced 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 position uses advance expertise and deep technical knowledge to design innovative new products and solutions that advance product development initiatives. This role determines best course of action to solve complex situations and serves as the R&D lead on cross-functional project teams, mentoring other junior R&D engineers to contribute to their development.
- Drive innovation and ensure products achieve best-in-class performance while promoting manufacturability and meeting cost targets
- Use advanced expertise to work directly with customer representatives, marketing, physicians, pre-clinical engineering, and regulatory affairs to understand user interactions, identify product opportunities, and develop comprehensive product requirements
- Research and advise on new vendors, materials, and/or processes.
- Play a key technical role in a project team, evaluating assigning appropriate R&D engineering resources to meet project milestones
- Lead cross-functional project team to ensure products are designed, developed, and manufactured in compliance with customer needs, company quality systems, budget, schedule and regulatory requirements of the countries into which the products will be marketed
What You’ll Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, or related discipline and a minimum of 8 years of related experience developing flexible medical device instruments; or equivalent combination of education and work experience in related regulated industry.
- Statistical analysis Software (Minitab or similar) and CAD (Solidworks, ProE, similar).
- High level of expertise with Product Lifecycle Management from proof of concept through manufacturing transfer including documentation control systems and design.
- Experience leading a technical cross-functional team through all phases of product development. Strong understanding of braiding, laminating, coiling, and laser cutting design and process constraints.
- Ability to be self-directed with minimal direction and supervision and take initiative to discern from multiple priorities when guiding a technical project team toward efficient solutions and opportunities; ability to multi-task efficiently in a fast-paced environment.
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: $160,000 - 185,000 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.
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 engineering or related discipline (or equivalent) and minimum of 8 years related experience developing flexible medical device instruments
- Experience with statistical analysis software (Minitab or similar)
- Experience with CAD (SolidWorks, ProE, or similar)
- High level of expertise with Product Lifecycle Management from proof of concept through manufacturing transfer, including documentation control systems and design
- Experience leading technical cross-functional teams through all phases of product development
- Strong understanding of braiding, laminating, coiling, and laser cutting design and process constraints
- Ability to be self-directed, prioritize multiple tasks, and work with minimal supervision in a fast-paced environment
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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