Medical Devices Inventor

Overview

In this role you will help invent and improve Medical Devices within a collaborative, multi-disciplinary environment in Cambridge. You’ll translate inventive ideas into practical devices across drug delivery, diagnostics, wearables, surgical systems, robotics, and electro-mechanical solutions. You will tackle complex problems through fault-finding and creative design, contributing to shaping next-generation medical technologies. This is a hands-on, high-impact role that connects engineering, physics and life sciences to advance the sector.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop novel medical devices and improve existing ones
• Work with engineers, physicists and scientists to explore concepts
• Identify and solve faults across diverse medical device platforms
• Contribute to cross-disciplinary development from concept to realization
• Support translation of ideas into manufacturable products

Key requirements

• Inventive and innovative mindset
• Experience across multiple medical devices (drug delivery, diagnostics, wearables, surgical systems, robotics, electro-mechanical devices)
• Strong problem-solving and fault-finding abilities
• Background from mechanical, physics, electronics, software, life sciences or related fields
• Previous hands-on design and development of medical devices

• Collaborative mindset
• Creative thinking
• Proactive communication
• Medical device design and development
• Fault-finding and troubleshooting
• Interdisciplinary collaboration across mechanical, electrical, software, and physics domains

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