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R&D Engineer 1

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R&D Engineer 1

At Boston Scientific, we'll give you the opportunity to harness all that's within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information, and training, we'll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you'll be supported in progressing - whatever your ambitions. About the role: We will consider qualified applicants of all ages who are starting (or restarting) their careers At Boston Scientific, we value collaboration and synergy. This role follows a hybrid work model, requiring employees to be in our local office at least three-four days per week. Relocation assistance is not available for this position. Boston Scientific will not offer sponsorship or take over sponsorship of an employment VISA for this position at this time. We are seeking an entry-level Research & Development (R&D) Engineer 1 to join our Interventional Cardiology Therapies (ICTx) division. In this role, you will leverage a variety of both innovative and proven technologies to help deliver life-changing medical devices to patients and clinicians, advancing Boston Scientific's mission to transform lives through medical solutions. You will collaborate with diverse R&D teams within ICTx-including Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Guidance (PCIG), Atherectomy, and Structural Heart-while contributing to new product development (NPD) initiatives. Your responsibilities will include: Support test methods, designs, and executes experiments, and prototypes for new and/or existing innovations. Support and successfully contributes to project teams through the following activities: product design and development, test of materials, preparation of specifications, process capability studies, research investigations, report preparation, and process/ test documentation. Support solutions to a variety of problems for simple scope and complexity where analysis of situations or data requires a review of identifiable factors. Summarizes, analyzes, and draws conclusions from test results. Assist in troubleshooting new products/process problems as related to design, materials of construction, or manufacturing processes. Apply the Technical Development Process (TDP)/Product Development Process (PDP) methodologies. Work cooperatively with process development, quality, manufacturing, regulatory, clinical, and marketing on projects of varying complexity to ensure project success. Assist the R&D teams with designs, procures, and aids with the fabrication of tooling and fixtures. Adhere to internal and external compliance standards, including related testing and documentation. Collaborate with a diverse set of cross functional stakeholders and global groups to define strategy for product material design and testing including processing aids, coatings, sterilization methods and in vivo and in vitro test methods. Identify and evaluates new materials or technologies for application to products. Assist with managing the development projects with internal and external testing facilities. Work with project teams to provide detailed instructions for the preparation of the devices for testing. Provide the expertise to aid the R&D team with the selection of materials for existing and new medical devices across the division. In all actions, demonstrate a primary commitment to patient safety and product quality by maintaining compliance to all documented quality processes and procedures. Some travel may be required, expected less than 10%. Required qualifications: Bachelor's or master's degree in biomedical engineering Must graduate between Fall 2025-Spring 2026 Must be eligible to work in the U.S. without company sponsorship, now or in the future, for employment-based work authorization Must have prior internship or co-op experience at Boston Scientific Must have at least 0-1 year of experience in R&D engineering at a med-tech company Preferred qualifications: Experience working in test labs with fixture design, test set ups, etc. Ability to research literature and develop clinical understanding Familiar with international standards (IEC, ISO 10993, EN, AAMI, etc.) Familiar with Regulated Materials (RoHS, WEEE, REACH) Familiar with EPA standards (specifically PFAS regulations) Personal drive, individual accountability & a strong bias for action Excellent organizational, communication and collaboration skills Ability to help draw conclusions and make recommendations based on technical input from multiple and varied sources Refer to ID 84525771 when applying