Website bloom_life Bloomlife
Bloomlife is bringing long overdue innovation to maternal health.
Description
You are at the front lines of the digital health revolution. You’ll join a top talent, fun, diverse, tight-knit team of experienced professionals who have worked in healthcare and technology across multiple functions. We think big and bold, and relentlessly execute.
You own hardware for all Bloomlife products. Your focus is on the Bloomlife sensor and patch series, and related test equipment and accessories. You own the hardware design process from requirement definition to validation and manufacturing. You are the primary technical contact for design and engineering houses and our contract manufacturer. You work hand-in-hand with product managers and application engineers to efficiently implement and deploy new product features. You work closely with our firmware and embedded software team to release new sensor hardware+software features. You show creative thinking and proactively come up with ideas and strategies to improve patch, sensor and product performance.
Your responsibilities are:
- You own the hardware roadmap for existing and future Bloomlife products.
- You lead the design and development of all hardware components (electrical and mechanical), and interface with external engineering/design houses and manufacturers.
- You set up electrical and mechanical testing, as well as the necessary environment, equipment and tools to monitor hardware performance.
- You lead hardware design validation, and the interaction with certified test labs.
- You work in close collaboration with software engineering, quality and regulatory teams, with the goal to provide tested, validated, robust and well-documented hardware for securing regulatory clearance (FDA and CE marking) and deployment in products.
- You provide guidance on industry best practices in electrical and mechanical engineering.
Requirements
You’re a passionate and experienced medical device hardware engineer and hobbyist, with a track record of taking medical devices through FDA and commercial launch. You specialize in miniaturized wearable electronics for health monitoring, and have experience across all aspects of hardware design including electrical, wireless, mechanical, human factors and regulatory compliance. You embrace rapid prototyping in the early stage of development, and are able to transition to production quality when time is right. You work fast without compromising on quality. You’re curious. You embrace new challenges and challenge the status quo. You’re proud of your design, products and how they change people’s lives.
To succeed in this role, it will help to have:
- Background in Electrical Engineering or equivalent through experience
- 7+ year experience in medical device hardware engineering
- Expert in analog and digital electronics design for wearable sensors, with a solid knowledge of mechanical engineering
- Proven track record in getting medical devices through FDA or CE marking, and launching medical products
- Experience with IEC 60601-1, 60601-1-2, 60529 and ISO 14971 standards
- Experience with IEC 60601-1-6, 60601-1-11, 60601-2-47 and 62366-1 is a plus
Benefits
Bloomlife is a mission-driven company solving one of the most significant yet underserved challenges today, maternal and neonatal health. We are designing the future of prenatal care to improve the health of moms and babies, through the most advanced combination of technology, medical expertise, and data science. We seek to empower moms to have the healthiest pregnancy possible. We want to eradicate preterm birth and stillbirth. We want to deliver our solutions globally and ensure every baby gets a healthy start.
Bloomlife has been recognized for our vision to rethink prenatal care and impact the lives of families globally including winning Richard Branson’s Extreme Tech Challenge, J&J Quickfire Challenge Winner, MedTech Innovator Award, Best Health Startup LAUNCH 2016, Ideas from Europe Finalist, CLIO Award Finalist, and speaking at the White House Precision Public Health Summit.
You will join a young, dynamic and international team who’s passionate about using technologies for a better living. You are an early member of a growing start-up with recent successes, and get to experience first hand the excitement of start-up life. Your work will be highly visible to company founders, directly shape our products and impact people’s life. We offer a flexible work environment, remote work culture and a compensation package combining salary and stock options. We have teams in San Francisco, Liege (Belgium), Genk (Belgium) and Eindhoven (The Netherlands). This position can be on-site or fully remote.