Development Engineer

ABOUT US

Cerapedics is a global, commercial-stage orthopedics company that is dedicated to redefining the path to bone repair by healing bones faster and at higher rates, so all patients can get back to living their fullest lives. Bone grafts, including Cerapedics’ products, are used in over four million annual spine, orthopedics, trauma, and interventional procedures worldwide. Cerapedics has two drug-device products approved by the FDA powered by Cerapedics’ proprietary P-15 Osteogenic Cell Binding Peptide:
Pearl Matrix™ Bone Graft for all major lumbar interbody surgical approaches and i-FACTOR® Bone Graft for single-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) in the cervical spine. Cerapedics is headquartered in Westminster, Colorado.

OVERVIEW

Healing lives through bone repair – this mission is what inspires us every day. If that is inspiring to you as well, consider joining us as a Development Engineer in our Westminster office.

In this role, you will contribute to our mission through developing innovative biomaterial, coating, and product technologies that support the advancement of bone graft solutions and improve patient outcomes. As a Development Engineer working on the Research and Development team, you will be empowered through meaningful work and career development to design and evaluate new products, develop novel materials and processes, create prototypes for field testing, optimize products for manufacturing, and support the successful transfer of new technologies into production.

A typical day will include conducting laboratory research and testing, analyzing materials and product performance, designing prototypes, collaborating with Commercial and cross-functional teams on new product concepts, documenting results, and supporting scale-up and technology transfer activities.

POSITION OBJECTIVES:

• Develop unique methods to process ceramic materials to generate a portfolio of potential materials with significant diversity in characteristics and surface properties.
• Acquire and analyze a diverse portfolio of soft tissue materials to identify unique properties to serve as platform for potential new products.
• Enhance and develop coating processes including coating of peptides.
• In conjunction with Commercial, configure the hard and soft components into a portfolio of product configurations with a large variety of products characteristics conducive to surgical products associated with bone graft.
• Develop unique test methods to demonstrate the required product properties.
• Produce a series of prototype product configurations for field testing.
• Optimize processing (design for manufacturing) for new products.
• Represent R&D in all stage-gate decision on new product pathways.
• Develop Quality release testing for new products.
• Perform as SME for technology transfer and scale-up activities.
• Design, execute, and evaluate process trials and performance testing; document results and standardize successful improvements.
• Ability to document work in compliance with standard good laboratory practices.
• Must be able to work independently, planning a reasonable course of action that incorporates published information and practices into the development program.
• Ability to communicate verbally sufficiently well to be able to interact with other team members and outside contract research organizations.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

• Experience with ceramics-based biomaterials.
• Experience with protein coating
• Experience with freeze-drying instrumentation and applications.
• Experience with analytical instrumentation.
• Experience with bone graft materials a plus.
• Solid problem-solving skills.
• Solid analytical knowledge of biomaterials.
• Strong decision-making skills.
• Excellent communication skills – both written and oral.
• Ability…