Sr Prin Scientist
Medtronic
- Boulder, CO
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Bachelors degree required
- Requires a University Degree and minimum of 10 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience
- Experience in taking medical devices to market (from opportunity definition to commercialization) while building key partnerships and working with clinicians, vendors, key external partners.
- Demonstrated aptitude to understand, condense and distill key issues of complex clinical problems while at the front-line (ORs, clinics, field) and through customer discovery processes.
- Experience in setting up and running animal studies, clinical research studies, and clinical trials across multiple locations (within the US and internationally)
- Track record of successful fund-raising for different med-tech projects
- At least 3 years of experience in determining impactful clinical needs that meet the strategic and organizational goals of the unit.
- 3 – 5 years of experience working in a matrix management structure
- Flexibility in working hours to accommodate collaboration across geographies.
- Qualifications:
- The degree should be in Physics, Applied Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related areas.
- The degree should showcase practical work in front-end engineering through solving significant clinical gaps in current and novel markets.
- Management
- Experience managing junior and senior engineers including vendors, and manufacturers – creating a mission driven culture across groups.
- Experience in financial modeling, budget management and forecasting
- Experience in assembling and managing a team of experts with varied domain expertise.
- Experience mentoring reports to nurture their interest, understand their strengths, ,areas of improvement and goals
- Clinical expertise
- Strong background in clinical study development and execution
- Experience in rigorous iterative product development tied with clinical experimentation, validation, and feedback.
- Strong interest in human anatomy and physiology
- Understanding of the human cardiovascular and respiratory systems
- Ability to grasp medical concepts with ease and depth.
- Business acumen
- Familiarity with business model and plan development and iteration
- Successfully facilitated funding from donor organizations or within the organization for personal or corporate projects
- Track record of conducting market analysis and customer discovery leading to new project areas
- Experience in value-based healthcare models
- Expertise in patent landscape analysis and the patent application process.
- Familiarity with FDA regulations and ISO standards in medical device development and IEC standards for software development
- Technological expertise
- Strong background in human-centered design and user-centered design
- Ability to distill core engineering principles for application in early concepts
- Prowess with rapid prototyping and design of experiments for a rigorous data-driven approach to product development
- Experience with model development and simulation studies
- Experience in lean product development and agile development methods
- Firm understanding of mathematics and linear algebra used in computational modeling.
- Experience with Machine Learning, and Deep Learning networks
- Experience with digital signal processing
- Experience with Python, C++, and Matlab coding
- Experience in medical device productization – quality system management, regulatory submissions, manufacturing, and iterative product development
- Application of techniques such as Reinforcement Learning, Transferred Learning, Computer Vision, Image Segmentation, and PCA
- Organizational and soft skills
- Proven track record in developing relationships and collaborating with an international set of varied partners.
- Communication skills that bridge varying roles within the company, hierarchy within the organization, and external partners
- Posting Date: Apr 2, 2024
- Travel: No
- Salary Min: 150,800
- Salary Max: 226,200