Senior Design Quality Engineer - Medical Devices - Carlsbad, CA

GILERO•Carlsbad, CA

9d•$100,000 - $140,000•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Design Quality Engineer at Gilero, A Sanner Company, you'll play a crucial role in ensuring the quality development of new medical device and combination products; from ideation through transfer to manufacturing. You will be responsible for quality oversight of the design, development, and production of medical devices and combination products with a focus in the areas of risk mitigation, requirements definition, and verification and validation strategy and implementation. Join us in a collaborative and innovative environment where your contributions will make a real difference on impacting the lives of patients and health care providers. You'll work with multiple disciplines and clients across a wide variety of products to help shape the future of healthcare technology, ensuring products meet the highest standards and positively impact patient outcomes across the globe.

Requirements

Able to work in the office at least 3 days a week
Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, or relevant field
5+ years relevant work experience
Proficiency with FDA 820 CFRs/ISO 13485/cGMP quality management system and requirements for medical devices and/or combination product development and manufacturing
Proficiency with ISO 14971 and application of risk management to the development of medical devices and/or combination products
Experience with electromechanical medical devices and IEC 60601 preferred
Strong preference for experience in pharma or medical device manufacturing and/or development environment; Strong preference for electromechanical systems based experience
Experience using risk analysis and continuous improvement concepts
Experience with GxP requirements
Experience supporting audits
Strong technical written and verbal communication skills
Excellent interpersonal, change management, planning, and organizational skills
Excellent oral, written, and presentation communication skills

Responsibilities

Represent Quality in cross-functional development teams, providing direction for development through transfer to production activities.
Author, maintain, and ensure compliance of Design History File documents during the development process in accordance with ISO 13485.
Translate user needs, intended use, regulatory inputs, and risk controls into measurable product requirements, specifications, and acceptance criteria.
Support design verification and validation activities, including statistical approach and analysis
Support project related efforts with quality system elements (CAPA, Complaints, Supplier Management, External Audits, etc.).
Participate in and facilitate risk management activities (hazard analysis, FMEAs, and risk assessments per ISO 14971)
Ensure traceability and testability of design requirements and risk controls.
Support manufacturing transfer, including review of preparation and execution of process validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) protocols, and development of production inspection plans.
Investigate, disposition, and resolve nonconforming material events during product development And pre-production phases; support production phases for transferred programs as needed.
Act as technical expert (including potential author) for new or revised QMS procedures; May include train team members, and release quality system procedures, as required.
Support internal and external audits (particularly for projects), as required with help of broader quality management team
Support supplier selection, qualification, and ongoing monitoring with help of broader quality management team.
Facilitate investigations to determine root cause and failure modes.
Execute quality event initiation, investigation, and closure for nonconformances, CAPA, change control, and complaints as required.