Job Description

MediView is building the future of surgical guidance and navigation with Augmented Reality (AR), telecollaboration, and data analytics such as Artificial Intelligence (AI). The Senior Research and Development Engineer is a motivated and well-organized individual with a passion for working across technical disciplines to develop compelling products and platforms that involve innovative technology and solving complex problems. This position requires an individual who has expertise working with early technology paths; ability to work collaboratively with non-technical and technical partners; experience managing system maturation, requirements and respective risks; and focus on execution while providing clear and effective communication to remove barriers across the entire team.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

General:

• Engage cross-functionally with other engineers, stakeholders, and program managers to develop user needs, design inputs, requirements, and specifications.
• Develop and support concepts to advance the technology product pipeline (hardware, software, integration, infrastructure, and applications).
• Work with stakeholders to develop charters, key questions, and risk burn down activities.
• Scout potential technological solutions, interpret publications and early research, and translate them into proof of concepts (PoC’s).
• Communicate technology and product strategy effectively to both internal and external stakeholders.

Key Project Specific:

• Must be proficient at working independently and in a hybrid research environment.
• Evaluate and prototype medical tracking and navigation solutions.

o Develop Pugh matrices for cross-functional criteria including user needs,

requirements, system configuration, regulatory strategy, etc.

• Develop, set-up, and implement benchtop models and testing for proof of concepts (PoC’s).
• Development requirements, protocols, and support pre-clinical/clinical studies such as animal, cadaver, and/or IRB’s for PoC.
• Document and develop intellectual property.
• Support development of systems to create new and useful XR/MR/AR experiences.
• Coordinate with team leaders to progressively advance technologies and integrate into prototype architectures.
• Support design control of applications (e.g. system requirements) containing mobile, cloud, and medical capital equipment particularly as it applies to imaging, tracking, and navigation.

Optional Preferred Duties:

• System and subsystem integration with XR platform and data flow.
• Develop data parsing and ingress workflow.
• Computational/advanced shader (or similar) work to visualize results.
• Work closely with various internal/external stakeholders to define and execute the long-term technology and product road maps.

o Communicate with vendors, execute non-disclosure agreements, execute

purchases.

• Facilitate and work with teams to identify, debug, and resolve technical project challenges.
• Participate in risk management and review to identify and define appropriate risk controls.
• Support document development, changes, and process in adherence to regulatory protocols.

QUALIFICATIONS:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience – Graduate Level Degree in biomedical engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, or similar discipline preferred. Five (5) or more years of experience with embedded systems, firmware, computer hardware, product development, or systems engineering. Experience working with highly regulated industries (Medical Device, Aerospace, Defense, or Automotive), particularly with image processing and tracking/navigation modalities. Experience working across technologies like C#, Unity, Visual Studio and UDP. Prior experience working in image Guidance and Navigation (computer-assisted surgery) systems, Virtual Reality (VR), Mixed Reality (MR), Augmented Reality (AR), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), or robotics is a plus.

Language Skills – Ability to read, analyze, and interpret scientific and technical journals. Ability to effectively present information to management or business prospects. Ability to interact clearly and effectively, in both written and oral communication, with supervisor, clients, staff, vendors, external partners, etc.

Mathematical Skills – The ability to apply ranges, means, standard deviations, conformity,

coordinate conversions, linear algebra, ANOVA, t-tests, linear regression, and Design of Experiments is a must. Experience with 3D computer graphics and coordinate transforms is a plus.

Computer Skills – Programming data communication protocols such as TCP, UDP, etc. Programming languages such as C+, C#, Python, and Java. Desired experience in mixed reality development environments (Unity, Unreal, etc.).

Other Qualifications - Valid driver’s license is required; Must be able to travel 20-30% of the time; Overnight stays may be necessary. Experience and ability to work in a fast-paced, tech startup environment where change is a constant and roles and tasks can be ambiguous at times.

Patent interpretation and submissions are a plus.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

While performing the duties of this job, the individual must be able to remain in a stationary position for 90% of the time while operating their computer and performing office work. The individual needs to occasionally move about inside the office. They must be able to exchange accurate information with customers and others in the office while interacting. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 15 pounds, occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

While performing the duties of this job, the individual is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts. The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate. The individual frequently works in a controlled climate. May be in clinical or hospital environments where health may be at risk due to exposure from patients that may have infectious diseases.