Remote Position
[Remote] Fractional Industrial Design and Mechanical Engineering Lead
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SciPro is seeking a Fractional Industrial Design and Mechanical Engineering Lead to provide strategic leadership for industrial design, mechanical engineering, and product development for a wearable neurotechnology platform. The role guides product development toward key milestones and coordinates external engineering resources and specialized consultants.
Responsibilities
- Lead industrial design and mechanical engineering strategy for a wearable neurological monitoring platform
- Guide product development activities through late-stage R&D, system integration, verification, validation, and design freeze
- Evaluate, select, and manage external engineering firms, product development partners, and specialized consultants
- Provide technical oversight to mechanical engineering, industrial design, and product development efforts
- Advise leadership on product architecture, design tradeoffs, manufacturability, reliability, usability, and risk mitigation
- Oversee development efforts related to wearable form factor optimization, comfort, durability, and long-term wearability
- Support collaboration across engineering, clinical, regulatory, quality, and manufacturing workstreams
- Drive decision-making related to materials, enclosure design, electrode integration, skin-contact interfaces, and reusable hardware systems
- Provide guidance on usability studies, human factors activities, and patient-centric design considerations
- Assist in preparing the product for manufacturing scale-up, design transfer, and commercialization
- Leverage industry relationships and professional networks to identify engineering resources, development partners, and subject matter experts
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor to company leadership during a period of rapid growth
Skills
- 10-20+ years of experience in medical device product development, mechanical engineering, industrial design, or related fields
- Prior experience with a successful wearable, on-skin medical device or sensor platform
- Demonstrated experience leading products through design freeze, verification, validation, and commercialization
- Strong understanding of regulated medical device development processes
- Experience managing external engineering firms, contract development organizations, and design partners
- Ability to operate strategically while providing practical technical leadership
- Proven success supporting multidisciplinary teams in startup or fast-paced product development environments
- Experience with wearable EEG, ECG, EMG, neuromodulation, biosensing, or neurological monitoring products
- Experience with continuous physiological monitoring systems
- Familiarity with skin-worn electronics and wearable health technologies
- Prior work supporting manufacturing scale-up and commercialization efforts
- Experience with human factors engineering and usability testing for medical devices
Benefits
- Remote / Flexible (U.S. Based)
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