Biomedical Engineer / Clinical Engineer (Senior)

Aptive

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About The Position

Aptive seeks a Senior level Biomedical Engineer/Clinical Engineer to serve as a subject matter expert supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Office of Healthcare Technology Management (HTM). This role provides expert-level clinical engineering guidance to help strengthen and modernize medical equipment management programs across VA medical facilities nationwide, ensuring healthcare technology is safe, reliable, compliant, and available to support patient care.
The Senior Clinical Engineer will support national initiatives involving medical device lifecycle management, planned maintenance programs, and healthcare technology standardization. Responsibilities include contributing to policy and guidance development, supporting assessments of biomedical engineering programs, and providing technical recommendations that reduce risk and improve performance across a large healthcare system. The position requires strong experience in hospital biomedical engineering operations and the ability to collaborate with clinical, technical, and executive stakeholders.
This role also provides expertise in patient safety investigations, medical device hazard response, and recall management, including development of reports, corrective action recommendations, and communications for leadership and field teams. The ideal candidate has extensive experience managing medical equipment programs, strong written communication skills, and working knowledge of medical device networking and cybersecurity concepts impacting modern healthcare technology.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering and Certification as a Clinical Engineer (CCE).
• 20+ years of hospital and healthcare experience maintaining medical equipment and managing a hospital medical equipment program.
• 20+ years of experience and skill in communicating and working collaboratively with key stakeholders, including technical and professional staff at various levels of a healthcare organization.
• 10+ years of expertise in incident investigations involving medical equipment and setting associated national healthcare system guidance.
• Knowledge of concepts related to computer based medical systems, networking protocols, and information security as it applies to medical technology.
• Competency in conducting a medical equipment management program that is compliant with applicable healthcare standards and regulatory agencies.
• Ability to manage a recall and safety alert program for medical devices, including medical device hazard investigations, to assure compliance with patient safety goals, SMDA, and TJC requirements.
• Understanding of regulatory agencies’ requirements, industry regulatory requirements and International Standard Organization standards.

Responsibilities

• Support national initiatives involving medical device lifecycle management, planned maintenance programs, and healthcare technology standardization.
• Contributing to policy and guidance development
• Supporting assessments of biomedical engineering programs
• Providing technical recommendations that reduce risk and improve performance across a large healthcare system
• Expertise in patient safety investigations, medical device hazard response, and recall management, including development of reports, corrective action recommendations, and communications for leadership and field teams.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level