Senior Clinical Scientist

• Ways of Working:
  Onsite - This job is fully onsite.
• Employee Type:
  Employee
• Min. Salary Region 1: 144300 USD
• Global Job Level (HCM):
  Professional 4 (11)
• Min. Salary Region 2: 122700 USD

At Intuitive, we are united behind our mission: we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. Through ingenuity and intelligent technology, we expand the potential of physicians to heal without constraints.

As a pioneer and market leader in robotic-assisted surgery, we strive to foster an inclusive and diverse team, committed to making a difference. For more than 25 years, we have worked with hospitals and care teams around the world to help solve some of healthcare's hardest challenges and advance what is possible.

Intuitive has been built by the efforts of great people from diverse backgrounds. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere. We strive to foster an inclusive culture built around diversity of thought and mutual respect. We lead with inclusion and empower our team members to do their best work as their most authentic selves.

Passionate people who want to make a difference drive our culture. Our team members are grounded in integrity, have a strong capacity to learn, the energy to get things done, and bring diverse, real world experiences to help us think in new ways. We actively invest in our team members to support their long-term growth so they can continue to advance our mission and achieve their highest potential.

Join a team committed to taking big leaps forward for a global community of healthcare professionals and their patients. Together, let's advance the world of minimally invasive care.

Primary Function of Position

This position reports to Manger/Sr. Manager, Medical Sciences and requires a strong candidate with expertise in the analysis of medical literature, data from clinical trials and pre-clinical studies, and sound knowledge of applicable regulations and standards. The position will mainly focus on the development of Clinical Evaluation Plans (CEPs) & Clinical Evaluation Reports (CERs), with a potential for future additional responsibility in the development of other clinical evidence documents.

The purpose of this job is to work collaboratively to develop strategies for the creation of CEPs followed by the development of clinical evaluation reports (CERs) per EU MDR, to meet essential requirements in support of submission for CE Mark application to obtain Declaration of Conformity and EU market clearance, re-certification and proposed indication/labeling changes. Further, the responsibility includes the development of regular CEP and CER updates to maintain EU product conformance.

• Interact with internal cross-functional teams (engineering, product development, regulatory, post-market surveillance) to define and plan the strategy for the development of CEPs and CERs for new products requiring CE Mark.
• Develop and author clinical documentation for regulatory submissions, mainly key sections of the CEP, and the entire CER document.
• Develop and author responses to the requests and questions on the clinical documentation from the regulatory authority.
• Possess or acquire in-depth knowledge of therapeutic areas, competitor devices, current clinical/market developments, literature review processes and the ability to keep abreast of current literature.
• Participate in and/or perform comprehensive literature searches to develop and maintain in- depth knowledge and understanding of current scientific literature required to support identified product lines and related clinical studies; stay informed about applicable clinical landscapes and trends.
• Provide product guidance and expertise to the clinical librarian to facilitate conducting literature searches on products/product families.
• Review scientific literature and interpret and summarize published data on risks, alternate therapies and device-specific benefits; collect and summarize primary data to support risk assessment.
• Critically appraise scientific literature and write clinical summaries for products and surgical procedures.
• Conduct proofreading, editing, document formatting, review comment…