Senior Principal Clinical R&D Engineer - Joints Robotics

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Job Function: R&D Product Development

Job Sub Function: R&D Digital

Job Category:
Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Warsaw, Indiana, United States of America

We are searching for the best talent for a Senior Principal Clinical R&D Engineer - Joints Robotics to join our Orthopaedics team. This is a hybrid position that can be based in Boston, MA or Warsaw, IN.

This role will act as a senior technical and clinical leader who bridges medical device design, patient safety, regulatory compliance, and real‑world clinical applications for joint robotics. You will provide hands‑on engineering and clinical input across the product lifecycle to ensure safe, effective, and compliant device development.

Key Responsibilities:

• Help Gather and Translate Voice of Customer (VoC) insights into clinical and engineering scope proposals.
• Support "train the trainer" and R&D roll outs.
• Support surgeon and clinical staff interactions and demos.
• Support high‑tired clinical investigation at times of need.
• Advise on usability.
• Partner with Regulatory to draft and support technical and clinical documentation for regulatory submissions and post market reporting.
• Review field actions, product complaints, health hazard assessments (HHAs), and recall decisions; provide technical/clinical risk assessments and remediation recommendations.
  
  - Interface directly with physicians, clinical staff, quality assurance, regulatory affairs, and external testing laboratories to resolve technical and clinical questions.
• Support preparation of technical sections for scientific manuscripts, clinical summaries, and internal technical reports at need.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (mechanical, biomedical, electrical, or related) or equivalent technical degree.
• 12+ years’ experience in medical device R&D, clinical engineering, or related roles supporting product development.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across engineering, clinical, quality, and regulatory teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and practical problem solving ability. Preferred / desired qualifications
• Direct experience in orthopedics, joint replacement, or surgical robotics.
• Knowledge of regulatory pathways (FDA, EU MDR)
• Experience with field actions, complaint investigations, HHAs, and recall processes.
• OR exposure and strong clinician relationships.
• Technical leadership with clinical focus
• pragmatic
• data driven decision maker.
• Collaborative communicator and cross functional influencer.
• Patient outcomes and risk management oriented.

Preferred / desired qualifications

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