Senior Research And Development Engineer

🚀 We’re Hiring: Associate Principal R&D Engineer!

📍 Location: Covington, Georgia (Hybrid – 4 days in-office/week)

💰 Base Salary: $180,000 – $190,000 annually

Are you ready to set the technical direction for pump and fluid platforms used in critical medical urine evacuation systems? We are looking for an Associate Principal R&D Engineer to own our multigeneration technology roadmap, helping product teams deliver measurable improvements in performance, power, sensing, reliability, and user experience.

This is a high-impact platform architecture role rather than day-to-day component design ownership. You will define the standards, interfaces, and technical decisions that engineering teams can reuse across multiple product releases.

💡 What You Will Do:

• Own the Technology Roadmap: Shape capability roadmaps across fluid evacuation, battery power/charging, patient/canister interfaces, sensing, leak/fault detection, odor mitigation, acoustics, reliability, and serviceability.
• Drive Platform Architecture: Establish modular architectures, interface standards, reference designs, reusable patterns, and platform test methods while leading architecture reviews.
• Guide Core Engineering Trade-offs: Direct pump mechanism selection, motor controls, fluid paths, power management, and vacuum/pressure/flow expectations under wet and dry operating conditions.
• Collaborate Across Functions: Partner with manufacturing, supplier quality, and supply chain teams to scale up operations, improve yields, manage costs, and secure supply continuity.
• Support Regulatory & Lifecycle Excellence: Shape verification, validation, and reliability testing (including accelerated life testing), while supporting design controls, risk management, human factors, and regulatory submissions.

🛠️ What You Bring (Required Experience):

• Education: BS or MS in Mechanical, Electrical, Systems, or Biomedical Engineering (or a related technical discipline).
• Experience: 10 years in electromechanical medical devices, portable pump systems, fluid management, regulated product development, or platform-based development with reuse across releases.
• Leadership: Demonstrated leadership of cross-functional technical strategy, reaching well beyond subsystem design or program execution.
• Core Competencies: Strong systems thinking, platform architecture, trade studies, risk management, design controls, verification strategy, reliability engineering, and supplier evaluation skills.
• Influence: Exceptional ability to influence engineering, quality, regulatory, manufacturing, commercial, and program teams without direct authority.

✨ Preferred Highlights:

• Deep background in portable pumps, vacuum/fluid systems, battery-powered clinical/consumer devices, wet-environment sensors, acoustics, and odor control.
• Experience with motor controls, power management, liquid-level sensing, occlusion/leak detection, and nuisance alarm reduction.
• Proficiency in FDA-regulated medical devices, platform governance (architecture review boards), manufacturing scale-up, and electromechanical lifecycle management.

📦 What We Offer: Full benefits package. (Note: Relocation assistance, visa sponsorship, and bonus/overtime eligibility are not available for this role).

👉 Ready to engineer platforms that impact patient care? Apply today or drop a message to learn more!