Associate Director, R&D - New Product Development

BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us—from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year—to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities.

The Associate Director of R&D will serve as a technical leader for new product development within the Infusion business. 

• →Will act as the technical leader for complex infusion systems, monitoring technologies, and integrated clinical solutions, with responsibility for significant portions of the product development effort.
• →Will provide technical leadership for multidisciplinary engineering efforts spanning hardware, software, systems, data integration, and collaborate closely with the monitoring technologies.
• →Will define technical architectures and product strategies that support the evolution of infusion systems and associated monitoring capabilities.
• →Will collaborate with clinical, product management, regulatory, quality, and engineering teams to develop innovative solutions that address evolving customer and patient needs.
• →Will provide technical leadership, direct and indirect reports, with the ability to deep dive into technical issues. 

• →Will Implement best-in-class R&D tools, processes & standards within the development platform. 
• →Will create Product Development goals which are linked with business priorities and traced to individual engineering responsibilities. 

• →Will drive and lead innovative problem resolution at an accelerated pace. 

• →Will work in a development environment which supports both organic and inorganic development opportunities 

• →Will lead and work with Functional Leaders to assign engineering disciplines to achieve platform goals.  

• →Will work with other leaders to mentor, develop and manage performance of talent assigned to the platform. 

• →Will to plan and administer yearly platform budget to ensure proper execution of deliverables as aligned to business strategy 

• Bachelor of Science in an engineering field (Mechanical, Systems, Physics, Electrical, Biomedical, Software). 

• 10 years of growing responsibility in R&D technical engineering roles with experience in product development. 

• Understanding of quality management systems 

• Regulated industry experience (FDA, Automotive, Industrial, etc). 

• Experience with design for manufacturing, process validation and design transfer 

• Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams across hardware, software, systems, and product development functions.

• Project management experience for sophisticated systems. 

• Experience in a proven design process (e.g. DFSS) over multiple programs. 

• Master's degree or PhD (Mechanical, Systems, Physics, Electrical, Biomedical, Software Engineering, or related discipline) with extensive product development experience.
• Experience with patient monitoring technologies, physiological sensing systems, or clinical decision-support capabilities.
• Experience developing integrated medical device systems involving software, data, analytics, or intelligent monitoring solutions.
• In-depth FDA and regulated medical device experience.