CooperSurgical is a leading fertility and women’s healthcare company dedicated to putting time on the side of women, babies, and families at the healthcare moments that matter most in life. As a division of CooperCompanies, we're driven by a unified purpose to enable patients to experience life's beautiful moments. Guided by our shared values – dedicated, innovative, friendly, partners, and do the right thing – our offerings support patients throughout their lifetimes, from contraception to fertility and birth solutions, to women’s and family care, and beyond. We currently offer over 600 clinically relevant medical devices to healthcare providers, including testing and treatment options, as well as an innovative suite of assisted reproductive technology and genomic testing solutions. Learn more at
This Engineer is a skilled professional responsible for contributing to engineering projects and collaborating with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and implement solutions. You will play an essential role in ensuring the successful execution of engineering tasks and projects to tight time scales and ensuring functional and non-functional requirements are met.
This opportunity to be a part of research and development workstreams, subsystems and/or specific products and deliverables in the domains ranging from simple disposable devices to complex thermos-fluidic system and sophisticated robotic solutions involving IT connectivity, machine learning and AI.
1. Technical Contributions:Design and develop components and assemblies using first principles, Lead development of electrical circuit schematics for complex electromechanical systems and analyze / simulate design to understand key parameters and sensitivities. Establish design feasibility by testing circuit and demonstrating statistical capability for critical functions.Design and de-bug electrical systems which complies to but not limited to 60601 EMC and Safety requirements.Define design inputs (., product requirements), develop design outputs (., product specifications), define technical strategies for an adequate verification and validation approach. Drive successful verification and validation testing.Ideate, conceptualize, and build concepts and prototypes to aid incubation of new opportunities or down-select wining solutions for new product developments, upgrades, or improvements.Create simulation and mathematical models as appropriate to demonstrate functional feasibility of technical solution based on experimental, numerical, statistical, and/or finite-elements tools and techniques.Participate in troubleshooting, root-cause analysis and devise solutions and approaches for solving technical problems (solution gameplan) and overcoming development challenges in an inclusive and collaborative fashion.Develop test methods and fixtures for products, components, and systems simulation, evaluation, and verification testing including creating formal Verification test protocols, run tests, and write Verification test reports.May communicate key technical content to parties within and outside of own function (R&D). May have responsibility for communicating with parties external to the organization and manage external development partners to meet project deliverables on time.
2. Highly Proficient in electronic design and creation of engineering drawings (Altium – required.
3. Medical device development experience with thorough understanding of design control guidelines including verification and validation methods – required.
4. Proficiency with engineering first principles and analytical methods including simulation modeling.
5. Understanding of Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA) – required.
6. Understanding of statistical methods including design of experiments – required.
7. Proficiency with developing firmware from initial stage - Required
8. Hands-on craft skills and experience with building, fixing, servicing and/or fabricating concepts, fixtures, prototypes or similar – required.
9. Experience in SPI, I2C, CAN buses -Preferred.
10. Experience with translating customer to product requirements, conducting harm-based risk analysis and defining acceptance criteria – preferred.
11. Experience with electro-mechanical, robotic, or digital systems – preferred.
12. Experience with FEA and/or simulation mathematical modeling – preferred.
13. Experience with Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) – preferred.
14. Experience in drafting testing protocols and reports. - required.
15. Experience with identifying latent user needs and front-end of innovation process – preferred.
Work Environment:
16. Office based with some travel
17. Prolonged sitting in front of a computer
18. Hands-on work in engineering lab (testing, prototyping, etc)
Experience:
19. Electronic and Firmware or biomedical engineering experience or combination with other related fields in medical device or related industries is required.
20. Cross-disciplinary education and/or experience such as mechatronic, electro-mechanical, electrical-biomedical, etc is highly desirable.