Materials Engineer Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• 10 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with 7+ years of relevant experience
• For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.
• U.S. work authorization sponsorship (H-1B, TN, J, etc.) is offered exclusively for Principal-level roles and above, where specialized expertise aligns with long-term business needs. Roles below the Principal level require candidates to possess unrestricted U.S. work authorization at the time of hire and for the duration of employment.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working in a regulated environment on medical devices
• Expertise in materials with the ability to identify and develop testing methods, correlate material properties with product performance, and predict various failure modes
• Experience working with multiple classes of engineering materials
• Experience performing failure analysis
• Awareness of biocompatibility testing in accordance with ISO 10993.
• Awareness of considerations related to Materials of Concern regulations, e.g. REACH, RoHS
• Knowledge of external standards, e.g., ASTM and ISO and their use, limitations, and applications
• Demonstrated ability to apply skills and knowledge of technical/operational theories and principles to resolve real-world biomaterials challenges
• Demonstrated ability to deliver quality technical work within project schedules and timelines
• Knowledge of Design, Reliability & Manufacturability (DRM), and Six Sigma improvement methodology
• Knowledge of statistical methods and Design of Experiments (DoE)
• Knowledge of Microsoft applications (Excel, Word, Outlook)

Responsibilities

• Leading workstreams of significant scope and urgency supporting materials selection, problem-solving, biostability, and materials regulations.
• Supporting released product reliability and new product development teams in the identification and mitigation of product-related risks, knowledge gaps and the communication of such issues to project and functional leadership teams and leading these workstreams to risk retirement and closure.
• Serving as a materials expert leading technical activities for materials selection, processing, characterization, analysis, material stability, biostability, as well as understanding of process-property-performance relationships for medical devices.
• Participating in convening technical reviews on high priority programs, ensuring risks are captured and a clear path to closure identified.
• Supporting scoping/planning of product strategy and identification of technologies and initiatives needed to develop innovative, reliable and cost-effective therapies.
• Developing and executing strategies to address those needs.
• Coordinating and conducting laboratory work and data analysis to drive data-driven technical decisions.
• Acting as a technical leader within functional and project teams, driving a focus on quality and technical rigor while mentoring less experienced personnel.
• Promoting the highest level of customer satisfaction, quality, reliability, performance, cost, and development predictability.
• Contributing to the design of products or processes based on business strategy.
• Developing strategies and preparing evaluation plans in consideration of gaps in materials, design and process to achieve optimal solutions that satisfy timeline, cost and technical requirements as they relate to patient safety and product reliability.
• Coordinating across the business and manufacturing to ensure mutually effective outcomes.
• Convening and leading teams to identify and burn down technical risks to support product safety, quality, and manufacturability.
• Engaging in sustaining engineering efforts to support post-commercial/legacy products.
• Thinking broadly across the entire project scope to address challenging and complex problems within a project spanning a wide range of difficulty and complexity.

Benefits

• Health, Dental and vision insurance
• Health Savings Account
• Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
• Life insurance
• Long-term disability leave
• Dependent daycare spending account
• Tuition assistance/reimbursement
• Simple Steps (global well-being program)
• Incentive plans
• 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match
• Short-term disability
• Paid time off
• Paid holidays
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Employee Assistance Program
• Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums)
• Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums)