Staff Engineer / Staff Designer, Innovation

Becton Dickinson Medical Devices • Durham, NC

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Staff-level Innovation leader within BD’s Urology & Critical Care (UCC) organization, you will play a critical role in advancing opportunities through the UCC Innovation Process. This role is focused on transforming validated needs into differentiated, testable, and scalable concepts that are ready for development investment. This position is intended for an experienced engineer or industrial designer with a strong blend of medical device development discipline and consumer product design mindset. You will lead concept development, prototyping, and learning cycles that balance clinical performance, business viability, and consumer-grade usability. Your work will directly influence which innovation opportunities progress into the UCC portfolio, shaping next-generation solutions across continence care, infection prevention, monitoring, and home-based therapies.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required in Engineering, Industrial Design, Human Factors, or related field.
• Minimum of 7 + years experience in medical device development, healthcare innovation, or consumer product development.
• Demonstrated experience progressing concepts from early ideation through validation and down-selection.
• Experience applying structured innovation methods (e.g., Biodesign, Design Thinking, Jobs to be Done, DFSS).
• Hands-on experience with prototyping, user testing, and formative evaluation.
• Familiarity with regulatory, usability, and risk considerations for medical or health-adjacent products

Nice To Haves

• Experience designing or developing products intended for home care, self-use, or consumer health environments strongly preferred.
• Master’s degree preferred (Engineering, Industrial Design, Human-Centered Design, or equivalent).
• Familiarity with regulatory, usability, and risk considerations for medical or health-adjacent products

Responsibilities

• Identify focus areas for critical innovation projects
• Translate prioritized needs and value propositions into multiple concept directions, clearly articulating user benefits, technical approach, and business rationale.
• Define target customers and users (patients, caregivers, clinicians) and ensure concepts address distinct needs across care settings, including home use.
• Lead early concept prototyping (physical, digital, experiential) to explore usability, feasibility, and differentiation.
• Partner with engineering, industrial design, human factors, and clinical stakeholders to assess technical readiness and identify critical development gaps.
• Evaluate early IP landscape and contribute to invention disclosures and protection strategies.
• Clearly document assumptions, uncertainties, and learning plans required to advance concepts out of Innovation
• Refine value propositions and differentiation versus competitive and alternative solutions based on testing and stakeholder feedback.
• Drive concept down-selection using structured criteria including user desirability, technical feasibility, regulatory risk, and business attractiveness.
• Partner with technical to assess design space and critical functions
• Contribute to early technology and system architecture decisions to support scalable product development.
• Ensure concepts exiting Innovation are clearly defined, evidence-backed, and development-ready.
• Act as a central integrator across engineering, design, clinical, regulatory, quality, marketing, and commercial teams.
• Bridge consumer design principles with medical device development rigor, ensuring solutions are intuitive without compromising safety or compliance.
• Collaborate globally to incorporate regional insights and ensure concepts can scale across markets.
• Clearly communicate concept rationale, trade-offs, and recommendations to senior leaders and governance forums.
• Use compelling storytelling, visuals, and prototypes to drive understanding and alignment.
• Support innovation capability building within UCC by mentoring teams and contributing to best practices for concept development

Benefits

• We believe that when people connect in person, we learn faster, collaborate more deeply, and build a stronger culture.
• Join us and enjoy a culture where face-to-face collaboration supports your learning, your progress, and your success.

What This Job Offers

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