Senior Principal Clinical Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +3 more locations.

📋 Description

• Serve as a Procedural Workflow Architect responsible for defining and shaping comprehensive surgical procedure workflows throughout the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative phases of care.

• Convert clinical, operational, economic, usability, and adoption requirements into cohesive procedural specifications.

• Lead the development of implants, instruments, enabling technologies, digital solutions, biologics, and services.

• Design and outline integrated procedural workflows for prioritized surgical procedures.

• Transform stakeholder requirements into procedural specifications, user needs, use cases, design inputs, and development guidance.

• Analyze current and future workflows to pinpoint unmet needs, obstacles to adoption, usability issues, economic challenges, and opportunities for differentiation.

• Collaborate with R&D, clinical teams, medical education, regulatory bodies, quality assurance, marketing, commercial partners, and external clinical stakeholders.

• Assess concepts for usability, workflow compatibility, clinical significance, adoption risks, and value to end users.

• Provide guidance on clinical, technical, operational, and business trade-offs to enhance efficiency, consistency, usability, and adoption.

• Convert procedural needs and intricate inputs into specifications, recommendations, and development guidance.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree in engineering, biomedical engineering, life sciences, clinical discipline, health care administration, or a related field is required; an advanced degree is preferred.

• At least 8 years of pertinent experience in medical devices, orthopaedics, surgical innovation, product development, clinical workflow design, human factors, systems engineering, or a related healthcare technology environment.

• Expertise in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Figma, Miro, FigJam, and Polarion native.

• Experience with 3D visualization, CAD, KeyShot, Rhino, SolidWorks, NX, or rapid prototyping methods is an advantage.

• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement skills; capable of influencing without direct authority in a matrixed setting.

• Ability to navigate ambiguous, early-stage problem framing and translate insights into well-structured development priorities.

• Knowledge of medical device development, design controls, risk management, and regulated product development.

• Skills in visual storytelling and storyboard creation.

• Familiarity with industrial design and human-centered design principles.

• Proficiency in workflow mapping, journey mapping, and process visualization.

• Capabilities in concept sketching, ideation, and rapid visual prototyping.

• Competence in design communication for complex hardware, software, and procedural systems.

• Experience in cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder facilitation.

• Ability to connect and interpret user needs, clinical context, and design direction.

• Skills in developing presentations and communicating effectively at an executive level.

• Travel will be required to R&D sites, labs, surgeon engagement sessions, customer research activities, or project workshops.

• Must adhere to company policies, procedures, quality standards, confidentiality requirements, and regulatory guidelines.

🏝️ Benefits

• Retirement plan (pension).

• Savings plan (401(k)).

• Long-term incentive program.

• Vacation – 120 hours per calendar year.

• Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; employees residing in Colorado will receive 48 hours per calendar year; employees in Washington will receive 56 hours per calendar year.

• Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays – 13 days per calendar year.

• Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year.

• Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child.

• Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member; 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year.

• Caregiver Leave – 80 hours within a 52-week rolling period.

• Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year.

• Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year.

• Inclusive interview process and accommodations for disabilities.