Distinguished Scientist

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 17 Jun 2026

At Mini Med, you can begin a lifelong career of exploration and innovation, while helping make a difference in the lives of people living with diabetes around the globe. You'll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation for a more connected, compassionate world.

About the Role This Distinguished Scientist is responsible for providing senior technical and scientific leadership for the research, design, and development of next-generation continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) sensors.

The Distinguished Scientist will serve as a glucose sensor expert with deep first-principles understanding of electrochemical sensing, enzyme systems, membrane design, diffusion and mass transport, tissue interface, signal generation, sensor stability, and system-level design tradeoffs.

This individual will help define and advance the Mini Med sensor technology roadmap by translating scientific insight into practical sensor architectures, materials, experiments, design requirements, and product concepts. The role will focus on technologies that enable longer wear, improved accuracy, multi-analyte sensing, improved reliability, lower cost, better manufacturability, and scalable commercial execution.

The Distinguished Scientist will partner across engineering, chemistry, algorithm, clinical, regulatory and other cross functional teams to solve complex technical problems and move promising technologies from ideation through feasibility and product development. This role is intended for a recognized technical leader who can mentor strong teams, influence senior decisions, and help strengthen Mini Med’s culture of innovation, collaboration, and patient impact.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

Provides technical leadership for next-generation CGM sensor design, research, and development.

Leads ideation, feasibility, and development of new sensor technologies that may enable multi-analyte sensing, longer wear, improved accuracy, improved reliability, lower cost, and improved manufacturability.

Applies first-principles understanding of glucose sensor behavior, including electrochemistry, enzyme-mediated sensing, mass transport, membrane design, tissue interface, interferents, drift, and stability.

Designs, guides, and interprets benchtop, in-vitro, pre-clinical, clinical, and product-level experiments to evaluate sensor performance and design feasibility.

Recommends new materials, chemistries, electrode designs, enzyme systems, membranes, manufacturing approaches, and external technologies to strengthen future sensor platforms.

Leads technical aspects of solving complex sensor performance issues, root cause investigations and risk assessments.

Partners with engineering, algorithm, clinical, regulatory, quality, and manufacturing teams.

Supports design reviews, verification and validation strategy, and product improvement activities.

Contributes to intellectual property strategy through invention disclosures, patent support, publications, technical reports, and external technology assessments.

Serves as a principal technical expert for sensor science and sensor design with senior leaders, cross-functional teams, suppliers, and external collaborators.

Mentors scientists and engineers to promote rigorous experimental design, and strengthens first-principles technical decision making across Sensor R&D.Ensures work is performed in compliance with applicable quality system requirements, design controls, medical device standards, and regulatory expectations.

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree with 15+ years of relevant experience; or advanced degree with 13+ years of relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

Significant experience in glucose sensor, biosensor, electrochemical sensor, or related medical device sensor development.

Demonstrated expertise in sensor design, first-principles problem solving, structured experimentation, and data-driven decision making.

Knowledge of medical device product development, design controls, risk management, quality systems, and regulated development environments.

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