Sr. Principal Product Design Engineer

About the role

The Sr. Principal R&D Engineer – Technical Lead is a senior, product-oriented technical-clinical leader responsible for shaping and translating neurostimulation therapies for Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) from concept through early clinical validation.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical-clinical lead for innovation and development initiatives, defining and driving technical direction.
• Define and communicate technical strategy aligned with product, clinical, and business objectives.
• Balance clinical value, technical feasibility, and risk in decision-making.
• Serve as the escalation point for complex cross-domain design decisions.
• Maintain deep product and clinical understanding of therapy behavior, workflows, and user needs.
• Lead system architecture across hardware, software, sensing, stimulation, data, and clinical interfaces.
• Bring broad systems-level understanding spanning therapy, clinical workflows, sensing, software, human factors, and data-driven product capabilities while effectively integrating specialist expertise.
• Drive identification, evaluation, and mitigation of key technical risks using disciplined, evidence-based approaches.
• Generate and evaluate technical options to support informed decision-making at critical milestones.
• Translate clinical insights and unmet needs into viable technical solutions.
• Drive execution across multidisciplinary functions within the product core teams.
• Exercise judgment to balance technical rigor, risk, and program timelines.
• Accountable for technical quality, integration readiness, and architectural alignment of externally developed systems and components.
• Lead and oversee externally executed engineering work through direction, review, and integration oversight.
• Ensure external deliverables align with system architecture and overall product intent.
• Drive generation of intellectual property and future technology direction.

Requirements

• 15 or more years in medical device development with significant exposure to clinical-facing technologies.
• 3 years or more at Principal or Sr. Principal Engineer level is preferred.
• Strong background in neuromodulation, stimulation-based therapies, implantable medical devices, or related active implantable technologies.
• Demonstrated experience in system-level product development and clinical-facing technologies.
• Demonstrated experience applying clinical insight to product definition, system design, therapy development, or technology strategy.
• Proven ability to lead technical strategy, architecture, feasibility, and risk-based decision making.
• Track record of driving execution and alignment across multidisciplinary teams without formal authority.
• Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills.

Qualifications

• Direct experience with neuromodulation or stimulation-based therapies.
• Experience developing implantable medical devices and associated clinical workflows.
• Experience working closely with clinicians and translating clinical feedback into product design and clinical workflows.
• Familiarity with regulated product development environments and design control practices.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field with extensive industry experience; advanced degree (MS or PhD) preferred.