Petal Surgical, Inc. R&D Engineer (Acoustics, Imaging) Redwood City, CA · Full time Company website

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[This posting is for candidate use only. No recruiters or staffing agencies. Unsolicited submissions will not be accepted or compensated.] For centuries now, surgery has been about invasive and painful manipulation of tissue with one or more tools. Even the most recent advances in the field have not been able to break this fundamental constraint. We are changing that. At Petal, we are on a mission to make incisionless surgery the standard of interventional care, for everyone, everywhere.

Responsibilities

Responsible and accountable for all things, processes, and results related to acoustic imaging as it pertains to incisionless surgery.

Administrative

• Serve as the goto person for ultrasound imaging in house.
• Uphold the organization's vision, mission and culture.
• Inspire the relentless and rapid pursuit of audacious goals to enable revolutionary  innovations in the domain of incisionless surgery.
• Set strategic initiatives, objectives and key results for the acoustic imaging function. 
• Evaluate and track the Company’s success in meeting its ultrasound imaging goals.

Product Development

• Responsible for the strategy, architecture and execution of ultrasound imaging  systems from requirements to final validation.
• Responsible for leading ultrasound engineering decisions that take into account patient safety, effective clinical value, user needs, and usability/user experience. 
• Responsible for delivering an ultrasound imaging  platform that integrates with the system hardware, achieves all the clinical goals, and is scalable for future product growth.
• In conjunction with industry experts and leadership, identify and bring to product realization a state of the art technology that enables an entire new field of therapeutic intervention based on science and first principles, and powered by novel and unique imaging software and algorithms.

Advanced Research & Development

• Responsible for long term strategy, architecture and execution of ultrasound imaging initiatives tied with company level strategic initiatives in alignment with the Technology Lead's strategy.
• Responsible for external partnerships with ultrasound imaging vendors (research and OEM, universities) in alignment with the Technology Lead's strategy.
• Responsible for creation of intellectual property in the field of ultrasound imaging and image guidance with a focus on long term value creation in the field of incisionless surgery in alignment with the Technology Lead's strategy.

Job Qualifications.

Minimum qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, software or related.
• At least 10 years of relevant ultrasound imaging  experience in a regulated environment. 
• Must be able to work independently within an environment rich with unsolved science and technology challenges, evolving requirements, and a dynamic team committed to changing the fundamentals of surgery.  
• Must have successfully complied with IEC 60601-2-37, IEC 60601-X standards and other industry stands required to launch a medical device with ultrasound experience.
• Experience translating ultrasound imaging requirements  into design input requirements that have passed design verification and validation.
• Experience developing and executing an ultrasound imaging test plan with a strategy to enable execution efficiency and a focus on risk analysis.
• Must have taken one medical ultrasound device through product launch.   
• Experience directly developing products alongside a cross functional organization of clinical, mechanical, electrical and systems engineers.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or relevant working experience.
• At least 15  years of relevant software design and development experience in the medical device industry. 
• Successfully launched three or more medical devices.
• Must be able to strategize, plan, budget and execute large and ambiguous objectives within their domain. 
• Custom ultrasound imaging Tx/Rx circuit design.
• Beamforming algorithm development.
• Elastography, doppler and aberration correction.

Level: Sr./Staff.