Website LanceSoft Inc
LanceSoft Inc
Company : LanceSoft Inc
Job Description: Sr Materials Engineer (Metals/Semiconductors)
Careers That Change Lives
This position will work in a team environment providing technical leadership in materials science and engineering with a focus on metallic, semiconducting, and ceramic materials. Duties include materials selection, processing, problem-solving, biostability, and materials regulations. This position will focus on supporting released product reliability and improvement teams in the identification and mitigation of product-related risks, knowledge gaps, and the communication of such issues to project and functional leadership teams.
The individual will serve as a materials expert with an emphasis on metallic, semiconducting, and ceramic materials and interfaces by participating in technical activities for materials selection, processing, characterization, analysis, material stability, biostability, as well as understanding of process-property-performance relationships for medical devices.
This position will also support scoping/planning of product strategy and identification of technologies and initiatives needed to develop innovative, reliable, and cost-effective therapies. The candidate will develop and execute strategies to address those needs. You can grow your career with us; we hope you’ll consider joining our team!
A Day in A Life
As a leader in your professional discipline, you will serve as a materials expert by leading and participating in technical activities supporting sustaining engineering.
- Brings focus and technical depth to subsystems and components within a broader project scope to address challenging and complex problems and enable project success.
- Conducts and mentors junior team members on laboratory work and data analysis to drive data-driven technical decisions.
- Acts as a technical contributor within functional and project teams, driving a focus on quality and technical rigor while mentoring less experienced personnel.
- Possesses the necessary drive and determination to promote the highest level of customer satisfaction, quality, reliability, performance, cost, and development predictability.
- Contributes to the design of products or processes based on business strategy.
- Contributes to and develops strategies and prepares evaluation plans in consideration of gaps in materials, design, and process to achieve optimal solutions that satisfy timeline, cost, and technical requirements as they relate to patient safety and product reliability.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree
- 5 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with 3 years of relevant experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working in a regulated environment on medical devices
- Possesses proven expertise in the following business-critical skill sets with focus on metallurgical science:
- Metals Physics, Chemistry, Processing and Characterization
- Semiconductor processing, packaging, and manufacturing
- Electrochemistry, corrosion and stability.
- Expertise in materials with the ability to identify and develop testing methods, correlate material properties with product performance, and predict various failure modes.
- Experience working with multiple classes of engineering materials: metals, polycrystalline, and single crystal ceramics, and glasses as well as their interface to the product as a whole.
- Experience performing failure analysis
- Knowledge of external standards, e.g., ASTM and ISO and their use, limitations, and applications.
- Demonstrated ability to apply skills and knowledge of technical/operational theories and principles to resolve real-world biomaterials challenges.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver quality technical work within project schedules and timelines.
- Knowledge of Design, Reliability & Manufacturability (DRM), and Six Sigma improvement methodology. Knowledge of statistical methods and Design of Experiments (DoE).
- Knowledge of Microsoft applications (Excel, Word, Outlook).
About ***
Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At ***, we push the limits of what technology, therapies, and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.
We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations – but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let’s work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients’ lives. Help us shape the future.
Physical Job Requirements
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. The physical demands described within the Day in the Life section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.