Principal R&D Engineer, Innovation

Working

Location:

Minnesota, Brooklyn Park;
Massachusetts, Westborough

Workplace Flexibility: Hybrid

For more than 100 years, Olympus has focused on making people’s lives healthier, safer and more fulfilling. Every day, we live by our philosophy, True to Life, by advancing medical technologies and elevating the standard of patient care so people everywhere can fulfill their desires, dreams, and lives. Our five Core Values empower us to achieve Our

Purpose:

Patient Focus, Integrity, Innovation, Impact and Empathy.

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The Principal R&D Engineer, Innovation leads and/or supports all Systems Engineering aspects on innovation of new product development efforts within the R&D organization. The major responsibilities of the position are performing and overseeing others perform activities such as defining needs, product requirements, and associated specifications, making system architecture decisions, outlining design inputs, product design implementation, verification testing, and supporting design validation studies.

The ideal candidate is a hands‑on project and multi-disciplinary technical leader with a strong systems design and integration background. The Principal R&D Engineer, Innovation is a subject matter expert (SME) and provides project and engineering leadership in all phases of complex med‑device development, as well as ensures compliance to applicable Design Controls policies. The individual may serve as a core or extended team member on PRP/NPD projects.

Areas of focus also include systems aspects of identification of user needs, risk assessments as well as product. This position is expected to provide leadership to cross functional teams, and less experienced engineers/technicians.

• Provide project and technical leadership as it relates to innovation to cross functional teams including external partners for projects through conceptualization, development, product registration and commercialization.
• Establish and foster strong collaborative relationships with internal and external design/development partners, manufacturing partners and service providers. Provide critique and design guidance to ensure proper implementation and traceability of design outputs as compared to design inputs.
• Work closely with Product Managers in collection of user needs/feedback on product requirements and concepts
• Lead the requirements development and management process, incorporating risk management elements as required.
• Support the optimization of design control elements to comply with medical device regulations.
• Implement product design with the intention of optimizing design for manufacturability and testability.
• Consider Cost of Goods and lifecycle when selecting components for device designs.
• Develop engineering solutions, investigate competing technologies while considering the patent landscape, and protect engineering solutions by filing timely invention disclosures and working closely with the IP Legal team as needed.
• Establish and maintain detailed project plans, define risks and recommend contingency plans as required.
• Provide support of Risk Management activities, working with Design Assurance.
• Lead all technical project execution activities and oversee the development of innovation investigations.
• Lead the system safety certification process to standards such as EN60601-1, EN60601-1-2.
• Provide technical support to Marketing for technical brochures, training programs, and technical presentations to customers and the sales force.
• Maintain knowledge of technical product landscape, competitive products and procedural trends for target procedural areas.

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Software or Systems Engineering.
• Minimum years of…