Simulation Education Specialist ; m​/f​/d

Virta Med develops advanced surgical simulators using hyper-realistic digital twins, AI, and customized hardware. We support Med Tech and pharma partners from accelerated product development to scalable, structured product training. Our solutions also enable hospitals, educators, and societies to train and assess practitioners through performance-based programs.

Maximize the impact of simulation in healthcare by helping clinicians to become proficient sooner, accelerating utilization and adoption, and enabling better outcomes for patients and Med Tech partners.

Virta Med helps healthcare providers and Med Tech partners to accelerate progress toward OR-readiness and measurable proficiency through high-fidelity simulation solutions, outcome-driven education, actionable insights, and trusted partnership.

At Virta Med, we believe the best solutions are created together. By working closely with our customers and treating them as partners, we ensure that our medical training and simulation technologies meet real-world needs and drive meaningful improvements in healthcare. This is what makes up our company culture. Read about our culture

Location: This position can be based in Europe or the United States.

We are looking for a “Simulation Education Specialist 100% (m/f/d)” to define and advance Virta Med’s approach to simulation-based education across our portfolio. You will translate surgical training needs and educational best practices into effective simulation exercises, proficiency-based curricula, assessments, performance metrics, and product-development requirements.

Virta Med’s ambition is to advance simulation from optional practice to a recognized component of surgical training and assessment. The role will help develop the educational rigor, assessment capabilities, and supporting evidence needed for Virta Med content to be adopted by institutions and, over time, considered within formal pathways established by professional societies, boards, and governing bodies.

You will partner across Product Development, Clinical Content, Customer Success, and Commercial teams, contributing simulation-education expertise to jointly develop effective and scalable solutions. The role will connect educational strategy, product development, and customer needs to support adoption, customer value, and product differentiation without directly owning commercial accounts or sales targets.

Your responsibilities include:

• Define and maintain Virta Med’s approach to simulation-based education, including standards for exercise design, curriculum structure, assessment, feedback, and proficiency-based progression.
• Translate surgical competencies and training needs into measurable learning objectives, intended learner behaviors, and actionable product requirements.
• Lead the educational design and review of simulation exercises, cases, assessments, performance metrics, and instructor guidance.
• Evaluate whether exercises reliably train or assess their intended skills, identify unintended strategies, and guide improvements through expert review, learner testing, and data analysis.
• Educate and influence product managers, developers, engineers, and other stakeholders so educational requirements inform development decisions.

• Establish a standardized proficiency-based training framework that can be applied across Virta Med’s portfolio.
• Organize exercises into structured curricula with appropriate sequencing, practice, progression criteria, and completion rules.
• Distinguish between training and assessment use and ensure that guidance, feedback, metrics, and scoring are appropriate to the intended purpose.
• Define meaningful performance metrics and proficiency criteria that reflect intended learner behaviors and distinguish between performance quality, errors, and efficiency.
• Identify curriculum, exercise, assessment, and evidence gaps and translate them into a prioritized development roadmap.

• Analyze simulator performance and study data to evaluate exercises, metrics, curricula, and learner…