Associate Director, R&D - New Product Development

Becton Dickinson Medical Devices•San Diego, CA

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About The Position

The Associate Director of R&D serves as a technical leader for new product development within BD’s Infusion business. The role provides technical leadership for complex infusion systems, monitoring technologies, and integrated clinical solutions, with responsibility for significant portions of product development. It leads multidisciplinary engineering efforts spanning hardware, software, systems, and data integration, and defines technical architectures and product strategies for the evolution of infusion systems and associated monitoring capabilities. The Associate Director works with clinical, product management, regulatory, quality, and engineering teams to develop solutions addressing customer and patient needs. The position provides technical leadership to direct and indirect reports, supports deep technical investigation, implements R&D tools and standards, connects product development goals to business priorities and individual engineering responsibilities, and leads accelerated problem resolution. It also works with functional leaders to assign engineering disciplines, mentors and manages talent, and plans and administers the yearly platform budget.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science in an engineering field, such as mechanical, systems, physics, electrical, biomedical, or software engineering.
10 years of increasing responsibility in R&D technical engineering roles, with product development experience.
Understanding of quality management systems.
Experience in a regulated industry, such as FDA-regulated, automotive, or industrial.
Experience with design for manufacturing, process validation, and design transfer.
Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams across hardware, software, systems, and product development functions.
Project management experience with sophisticated systems.
Experience using a proven design process, such as DFSS, across multiple programs.

Nice To Haves

Master's degree or PhD in mechanical, systems, physics, electrical, biomedical, software engineering, or a related discipline, with extensive product development experience.
Experience with patient monitoring technologies, physiological sensing systems, or clinical decision-support capabilities.
Experience developing integrated medical device systems involving software, data, analytics, or intelligent monitoring solutions.
In-depth FDA and regulated medical device experience.

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership for complex infusion systems, monitoring technologies, and integrated clinical solutions, including significant portions of product development.
Lead multidisciplinary engineering efforts across hardware, software, systems, and data integration.
Define technical architectures and product strategies for the evolution of infusion systems and associated monitoring capabilities.
Collaborate with clinical, product management, regulatory, quality, and engineering teams to develop solutions addressing customer and patient needs.
Provide technical leadership to direct and indirect reports and investigate technical issues in depth.
Implement R&D tools, processes, and standards within the development platform.
Create product development goals linked to business priorities and trace them to individual engineering responsibilities.
Drive and lead innovative problem resolution at an accelerated pace.
Work in a development environment supporting organic and inorganic development opportunities.
Work with functional leaders to assign engineering disciplines to achieve platform goals.
Mentor, develop, and manage the performance of talent assigned to the platform.
Plan and administer the yearly platform budget to support delivery aligned with business strategy.