Technical Project Manager - College of Engineering - BioMedical Engineering

Core Responsibilities

• Build and maintain working relationships with the clinical collaborators - maternal-fetal medicine specialists, OB/GYN faculty, neonatologists, and pediatric anesthesiologists
• Engage with clinicians to understand current intrapartum monitoring practice, unmet needs, decision points, and the clinical context surrounding fetal hypoxia and labor management; surface insights to the PI and task leads.
• Identify clinically meaningful opportunities and directions for the solution platform and translate these into experimental questions, study aims, and validation priorities.
• Represent the technical team in conversations with clinical partners; communicate technical capabilities and constraints in language that clinicians can act on.
• Serve as the substantive technical point of contact between the CMU lead labs and external academic and industry partners.
• Develop a working understanding of sensor designs, signal processing approaches, software stacks, hardware integration plans, regulatory and manufacturing posture.
• Track partner progress against project deliverables, surface technical risks early, and flag where dependencies between partners are at risk.
• Synthesize partner activity into clear technical updates for the PI, task leads, and (when needed) funding agency.
• Provide high-level technical oversight across different tasks on the project and assess whether the overall technical strategy and the work plans of individual partners are coherent and on track.
• Identify technical risks, gaps, and over-investments early; recommend prioritization, scope adjustments, or additional collaborations to the PI.
• Maintain a current internal picture of the system architecture and ensure each partner’s effort plugs into that architecture cleanly.
• Support technical content for reporting, milestone reviews, FDA Q-submissions, and regulatory planning, in collaboration with the Program Manager (who handles program-level reporting logistics) and the task leads.

Qualifications

• PhD in biomedical engineering, electrical engineering, biophysics, neuroscience, applied physics, or a related field (or equivalent research experience).
• Multiple years of post-PhD research experience in a relevant laboratory or research-and-development setting.
• Demonstrated experience working in or coordinating multi-institutional and/or international research collaborations is strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with clinical research, human-subjects studies, IRB processes, and/or regulated medical device development (IDE, De Novo, PMA, 510(k)) is preferred.
• Prior experience interfacing with federal sponsors such as ARPA-H, DARPA, NIH, or DoD on milestone-driven programs is a plus.
• Significant prior research experience in biomedical engineering, biomedical optics, biomedical instrumentation, neuroengineering, or a closely related field — ideally several years of postdoctoral, staff scientist, or equivalent experience in an active research lab.
• Technical depth in one or more sensing modalities relevant to the project (diffuse optics, EEG/EMG/ECG, ultrasound, photoacoustics, or related), and the breadth to engage credibly with adjacent modalities and AI/ML work.
• A track record of substantive scientific output (peer-reviewed publications, conference presentations, and/or contributions to funded grants).
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate and lead across multiple stakeholders — academic collaborators, clinicians, and/or industry partners — and to translate between their distinct cultures and constraints.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to engage clinicians on clinically meaningful questions and engineers on technical detail, and to summarize either for the other.
• Strong interpersonal skills and a collaborative disposition; comfort operating across institutional and international boundaries.
• A clear interest in growing as a scientific leader / coordinator who stays engaged with the science.