R&D Engineer I

Summary

The job description is for an R&D Engineer position at Penumbra, a global healthcare company focused on innovative therapies. The role involves designing medical devices to address challenging disease states, working collaboratively to design, prototype, and optimize these devices, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, creating test protocols, developing clinically relevant benchtop models, coordinating with suppliers, and originating robust documentation.

Requirements

• A passion and knack for solving hands-on and multi-disciplinary technical design problems
• A portfolio demonstrating strong engineering acumen and mechanical intuition
• The ability to communicate complex issues in a clear and compelling manner, both in writing and orally
• A high level of organization with the ability to navigate multiple tasks with competing priority

Responsibilities

• Design, prototype, and optimize meaningful medical devices that revolutionize treatment paradigms for a variety of challenging disease states
• Ensure that the medical device is in compliance with applicable regulatory requirements and quality control standards
• Create test protocols and conduct testing to mitigate clinical risk for a wide range of medical device concepts
• Develop clinically relevant benchtop models to simulate complex anatomy and disease states
• Coordinate with suppliers and other external resources to source components and refine component specifications
• Originate robust documentation, including CAD drawings, test protocols, test reports, studies, work instructions, etc

Benefits

• A collaborative teamwork environment where learning is constant, and performance is rewarded
• The opportunity to be part of the team that is revolutionizing the treatment of some of the world's most devastating diseases
• A generous benefits package for eligible employees that includes medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, short and long-term disability insurance, 401(k) with employer match, an employee stock purchase plan, paid parental leave, eleven paid company holidays per year, a minimum of fifteen days of accrued vacation per year, which increases with tenure, and paid sick time in compliance with applicable law