Associate Principal R&D Engineer

Strivector Corp is a National Recruiting and Staffing agency established in 2012 and headquartered in Austin, Texas. We are a preferred partner for several Fortune 500 companies nationwide. Strivector has been consistently rated a rare 4.6/5 on Google, Indeed and Glassdoor by our candidates, customers, employees and contractors.
Elevate your professional journey with us. Strivector s premier client (a well-known market leader in their space) is hiring for the following full-time direct hire position.

POSITION OVERVIEW
As an Associate Principal R&D Engineer, your roles and responsibilities will include:

• Own the UCC Pump & Fluid Platform capability roadmap across pump/fluid evacuation, battery/power/charging, patient/device/canister interfaces, liquid level detection, leak and fault detection, odor mitigation, acoustic performance, reliability, serviceability, and platform test methods.
• Define technology maturity stages and align platform capabilities with product release schedules.
• Lead pump and fluid platform strategy reviews and establish roadmaps with clear deliverables, decision points, investment needs, and success metrics.
• Establish system-level architecture principles, modularity strategies, interface expectations, performance standards, and reusable design models.
• Serve as the technical authority for platform-impacting changes and participate in architecture reviews and technical assessments.
• Guide major platform architecture decisions involving pump mechanisms, motor/control architecture, fluid path design, battery/power systems, charging, sensing, and acoustic/odor mitigation.
• Establish performance expectations for pump and fluid evacuation systems, including vacuum/pressure targets, flow performance, canister and tubing compatibility, and filtration.
• Define power and charging architecture principles supporting runtime, charge time, battery life, safety, reliability, and user experience.
• Guide sensing and detection architecture, including liquid level, occlusion, leak/fault detection, alarm behavior, and nuisance alarm reduction.
• Partner with manufacturing, supplier quality, operations, and supply chain teams to ensure manufacturability, scalability, cost effectiveness, reliability, and supply continuity.
• Influence verification, validation, reliability strategy, accelerated life testing, environmental stress considerations, and release readiness.
• Collaborate with engineering, quality, regulatory, marketing, human factors, operations, service, supply chain, and program teams.
• Drive platform-level improvements using field data, customer feedback, complaints, service returns, manufacturing trends, and reliability data.
• Promote reuse through common platform modules, interface standards, reference architectures, test methods, and design patterns.

QUALIFICATIONS
Most importantly, you need to be a passionate Associate Principal R&D Engineer who enjoys your work and is considered to be one of the best within your organization. The ideal Associate Principal R&D Engineer would be someone with deep experience in many (if not all) of the following:

• BS/MS in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in electromechanical medical devices, portable pump systems, fluid management systems, regulated product development, or platform-based product development.
• Demonstrated success leading cross-functional technical strategy, not just subsystem design or program execution.
• Strong background in systems thinking, platform architecture, trade studies, risk management, design controls, verification strategy, reliability engineering, and supplier/technology evaluation.
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams across systems, mechanical, electrical, software, quality, regulatory, marketing, operations, human factors, service, supply chain, and program functions.
• Experience with portable pumps, fluid management, battery-powered devices, vacuum/pressure/flow systems, sensors, acoustics, odor control, and consumables ecosystems is preferred.
• Experience with pump mechanisms, motor/control strategies, battery/charging systems, liquid level sensing, occlusion detection, leak detection, fault detection, and alarm behavior is preferred.
• Experience with FDA-regulated medical devices, design controls, risk management, verification and validation, usability/human factors, complaint trending, and sustaining engineering is preferred.

We understand that even if you are a seasoned Associate Principal R&D Engineer, you may not have all the skills listed here.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Compensation: Based on Experience. One of the best in the industry
Minimum Education: Bachelor's/Master's Degree
Minimum Experience: 10+ years of electromechanical medical device, portable pump, fluid management, or regulated product development experience
Type of position: Full-time Permanent position with benefits
Location: Covington, Georgia
Remote / Hybrid: Hybrid Scheduled work-from-home days
Relocation accepted: Not specified in the job description