Principal Electrical Engineer

Veranex is the leading service provider for medtech companies. Our global team of experts help clients anticipate challenges and find solutions throughout the development and commercial lifecycle. Together, we accelerate new technologies to market and improve patient outcomes.

About This Role:

Veranex has an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Principal Electrical Engineer. You will be part of a team working to improve lives globally through medical technology innovation. reporting to the Director of Electrical Engineering, the Principal Electrical Engineering role serves as a lead engineer on programs, providing technical leadership, oversight, targeted engineering execution, and support of business development activities.

What You Will Do

• Provides leadership to internal resources and manages external development partners.
• Leads electrical engineering projects through all phases of the medical product development process
• Ensures compliance with medical device regulations and standards per Veranex QMS
• Assists to develop the team to ensure performance meets and/or exceeds business and personal goals and objectives
• Provides leadership, training, guidance, and support to electrical engineering peers
• Provides feedback to management during the project quoting and project planning process OR Participates in business development activities by providing technical expertise for proposal content and sales calls
• Functions as electrical engineering lead on product development programs
• Manages and reports on metrics that measure the impact of their technical team on the larger organization
• Works with peers in the organization to identify and execute on improvements to capabilities within their purview.

Qualifications

Required skills:

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or similar field and 5-8 years of related experience.

• Expertise in one or more of the following applications:
• Robotics or motion control systems
• Microfluidics, disposable cartridge design, fluid or pneumatics systems
• Thermal control systems (TEC, resistive, PID control)
• Optical detection
• Energy delivery (e.g. RF, laser)
• Drug delivery
• Medical device sensor technologies
• Battery powered devices, wearables, IoT, home healthcare devices
• Wireless technologies (BLE, WiFi, LTE, NFC)
• EMC design practices
• Working knowledge of Embedded Programming Languages and Tools (C/C++, Python, BitBucket, etc)
• A broad range of electrical engineering experience, including expertise in one or more of the following areas:
• PCB Schematic and Layout (Altium Required, Cadence/Allegro in addition, a plus)
• Analog and digital design (MCU/MPU, FPGA based development)
• FPGA design Experience preferred
• Simulation tools (circuit level - Spice and simulation level - Python, COMSOL, Matlab)
• Rapid prototyping, test, bring-up, and test automation
• Board level BOM management
• Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFM an dDFT)
• Design for adherence to standards (IEC 60601-1, IEC 61010, IEC 60601-1-2)
• Embedded hardware development (32/64 bit ARM-based uC, SOM, SBC, and understand of various OS.
• Best practice algorithms and sampling for closed loop systems

• Ability to work within and influence a multidisciplinary project team
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, business acumen, and assertive decision-making ability
• Experience with new product design and development
• Familiarity with risk management activities (e.g. FMEAs)
• Knowledge of FDA QSR Regulations (21 CFR 820), ISO 13485:2003 (Quality System) and ISO 14971:2007 (Risk Management)
• Knowledge with medical device, diagnostic, and EMC standards is desired (60601-1, 61010-1, 60601-1-2, 61326, and other relevant collateral and particular standards)

Preferred:

• 1-2 years of experience leading technical teams
• Specific experience in development of medical device and/or diagnostic products highly preferred
• Familiarity with requirements development, embedded system architecture design, and other system engineering activities
• Familiarity with test method development, quantitative analysis (simulated and empirical), and basic statistics
• Familiarity with requirements analysis is a plus; translating stakeholder needs (e.g. Customer, User) needs into functional design inputs and output documents, and contributing to design V&V traceability matrice

Veranex is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination of any kind. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard for race, color, religion or belief, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity or gender expression), sexual orientation, parental or marital status, disability, age, status as a protected veteran, national, social, or ethnic origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics.