Boston Scientific

R&D Engineer II Job

Posted on: 18 Mar 2021

Maple Grove, MN

Job Description

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At Boston Scientific, you will find a collaborative culture driven by a passion for innovation that keeps us connected on the most essential level. With determination, imagination and a deep caring for human life, were solving some of the most important healthcare industry challenges. Together, were one global team committed to making a difference in peoples lives around the world. This is a place where you can find a career with meaningful purposeimproving lives through your lifes work.

Boston Scientific is seeking a highly motivated engineer to work in a biotechnology company. This R&D Engineer II will be a team member in new product development for a strategic product in our Venous business.

At Boston Scientific, our products and technologies are used to diagnose or treat a wide range of medical conditions. We continue to innovate in key areas and are extending our innovations into new geographies and high-growth adjacency markets. Within the Peripheral Interventions (PI) Division we design, develop, produce and sustain technologies for treating peripheral venous and arterial disorders, in addition to supporting evolving regulatory and standard requirements around product design. We provide solutions to patients that include: Drug-Eluting & Bare-Metal Stents, Catheters, Balloons & Drug-Eluting Balloons, Microspheres, Thrombectomy and Atherectomy. PI has a robust product line and pipeline, and we will continue to make an investment in Interventional treatments.

Key Responsibilities

* Fully participates in and successfully contributes to project teams typically including the following activities: product design and development, test of materials, preparation of specifications, process capability studies, research investigations (animal and clinical studies), report preparation, and process/test documentation
* Works independently to plan and schedule own activities necessary to meet timelines
* Designs and coordinates standard engineering tests and experiments
* Designs, procures, and fabricates tooling and fixtures
* Performs troubleshooting on new products/process problems as related to design, material, or process
* Summarizes, analyzes, and draws conclusions from test results
* Prepares standard reports/documentation to communicate results to technical community
* Responsible for engineering documentation
* Invents/ creates concepts and designs for new products/processes, and submits idea disclosures
* May train and/or provide work direction to technicians
* Works cooperatively with process development, quality, manufacturing, regulatory, clinical, and marketing to ensure project success
* Demonstrates PDP/TDP system knowledge through delivery of high quality deliverables

Basic Qualifications:

* BS or MS Degree in Engineering mechanical or biomedical
* 2 or more years of applied engineering experience

Preferred Qualifications:

* Medical device design and or process experience
* Desire for leadership with traits of being an independent thinker, self-starting, with strong communication skills
* Electrical or electro-mechanical device experience

About us

As a global medical technology leader for more than 35 years, our mission at Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX) is to transform lives through innovative medical solutions that improve the health of patients. If youre looking to truly make a difference to people both around the world and around the corner, theres no better place to make it happen.

Boston Scientific is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Disability, Veteran

Boston Scientific maintains a drug-free workplace. Pursuant to Va. Code 2.2-4312 (2000), Boston Scientific is providing notification that the unlawful manufacture, sale, distribution, dispensation, possession, or use of a controlled substance or marijuana is prohibited in the workplace and that violations will result in disciplinary action up to and including termination.

Requisition ID: 474865

Boston Scientific

Marlborough, MA

Boston Scientific Corporation, doing business as Boston Scientific, is a manufacturer of medical devices used in interventional medical specialties, including interventional radiology, interventional cardiology, peripheral interventions, neuromodulation, neurovascular intervention, electrophysiology, cardiac surgery, vascular surgery, endoscopy, oncology, urology and gynecology.

Boston Scientific is primarily known for the development of the Taxus Stent, a drug-eluting stent which is used to open clogged arteries. With the full acquisition of Cameron Health in June 2012, the company also became notable for offering a minimally invasive implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) which they call the EMBLEM Subcutaneous Implantable Defibrillator (S-ICD)