Senior Manager, Emerging Tech – Consumer Health and Medical Equipment Technologies

Lab Summary

Samsung Research America's Emerging Technologies Group identifies and incubates innovative external technologies that accelerate Samsung's development and market position of its industry-leading consumer devices and medical equipment. We proactively research and create incubation, partnership & investment opportunities with breakthrough technologies that lay the foundation for the future of Samsung's core products & services across smartphones, tablets, wearables, PCs, TVs, appliances, and more.

In addition to driving both the technical and business processes to validate and commercialize new technologies in Samsung's existing products, we maintain a strong pulse on the market to find the next big opportunity.

The Sr. Manager, Emerging Tech – Consumer Health and Medical Equipment Technologies is a senior individual contributor responsible for researching and developing collaborations with external innovations in consumer health technology and formulating strategies to deliver differentiated solutions through Samsung's device ecosystem. This role is primarily focused on the consumer health experiences delivered through Samsung's smartphone and wearable platforms, with exposure to Samsung's Health and Medical Equipment portfolio — including ultrasound systems, digital X-ray, and CT imaging — as an additional dimension of the role.

The ideal candidate brings deep familiarity with Health AI and novel sensor technologies with an understanding of how advances in AI-driven sensing, digital biomarkers, and on-device health intelligence can elevate Samsung's consumer health products. They will operate as an individual contributor who drives impact through influence — building alignment across internal R&D and product teams, external partners, and senior leadership without direct organizational authority over any of these stakeholders.

In this role, you will track the leading edge of health technology research, navigate the North American startup ecosystem and top university research programs, build compelling cases for Samsung leadership, and foster the external partnerships needed to advance Samsung's position in consumer health innovation.

• Domain Intelligence & Technology Foresight:
  Maintain deep, continuously updated expertise in consumer health and digital health technology — including digital biomarkers, AI-powered health sensing, biosensor technologies, and remote health monitoring — and synthesize insights from academic publications, startup activity, and clinical research to inform Samsung's technology strategy; stay broadly informed on medical equipment technology trends as a supplementary area of awareness.
• Health AI as a Core Lens:
  Apply strong working knowledge of Health AI — including AI/ML for health sensing and wearables, digital biomarker development, on-device inference, and multimodal health data analysis — to evaluate external innovations and identify where AI-enabled breakthroughs can most meaningfully advance Samsung's consumer health roadmap.
• Concept Development & Opportunity Framing:
  Identify and articulate new technology opportunities in consumer health, developing structured opportunity assessments that connect external innovations to Samsung's strategic priorities across its wearable, mobile, and home device platforms; develop awareness of adjacent opportunities within Samsung's Health and Medical Equipment business unit and engage that team directly to explore potential alignment.
• External Ecosystem Engagement:
  Actively navigate the North American startup ecosystem and engage leading university research groups in consumer health, wearable sensing, clinical AI, and adjacent domains; build and maintain a broad, trusted network of founders, researchers, VCs, and technology transfer offices to ensure Samsung has early visibility into breakthrough innovations; depth and quality of this network is a highly valued attribute for this role.
• Partnership Development & Management:
  Serve as the primary liaison between external partners and Samsung's internal R&D and product teams; lead technology evaluations, structure and drive…