R&d Director jobs at Boston Scientific in Costa Rica

Costa Rica-Heredia

About the role:

As a Principal Engineer, you will be part of a high-performance team dedicated to support the commercial phase of disposable medical devices in the electrophysiology space. This role is integral to best-in-class development practices and rigorous, holistic product design—collaborating closely with internal and external partners to bring innovative solutions to patients.

Your responsibilities include:

• As an individual researcher, drives complex or novel assignments requiring the development of new or improved techniques and procedures. Work is expected to result in the development of new or refined technologies, products, materials, processes, equipment, and or scientific methods.
• Uses knowledge and skills and is regarded as a knowledgeable and experienced resource who can quickly generate unique and creative solutions to technical challenges that the team cannot otherwise resolve.
• Assesses the feasibility and soundness of alternative engineering processes, products, or equipment when necessary data are insufficient or confirmation by testing is not advisable.

• Researching, designing, and evaluating mechanical and electro-mechanical materials, components, assemblies, and processes.
• Leading complex single-use device sustaining efforts including requirements, design, prototyping, testing, manufacturing transfer, V&V.
• Developing solutions to challenging engineering problems requiring ingenuity and collaboration across functions.
• Analyzing system-level issues and driving technical decision-making in cross-functional teams.
• Ensuring compliance with the Design Control deliverables throughout all the phases of the product life cycle.
• Esuring compliance with country specific regulatory requirements, such as FDA, EU MDR, among other.
• Integrating product-level documentation with broader system requirements.
• Organizing and planning project assignments with a focus on technical excellence and timely delivery
• Driving continuous improvement in product development and ensuring compliance with quality systems.
• Providing mentorship, technical guidance, and fostering a high-performance team culture.
• Drafting and submitting intellectual property.
• Maintaining detailed documentation throughout all research and development phases.
• Communicating effectively with internal stakeholders and external partners.
• Building strong cross-functional relationships to advance program goals.

What we are looking for:

• Bachelor’s/Licenciature Degree: Mechatronics, Electronics, Electrical, Mechanical, Materials Science, or related field.
• English level: +90%.
• Experience: Minimum of 7 years' experience in the medical device industry with a BS/Licenciature, Master/PhD degree is a plus.
• Knowledge of ISO 13485, EU MDR, and FDA medical device requirements, including design controls, product life cycle, validation/verification activities, and process improvement.
• Experience with Design Controls and Product Development Process in medical devices
• Proven experience managing technical aspects of cross-functional project teams
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across functions and influence without authority
• Strong passion for understanding and solving problems for end users
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to travel internationally.
• Work Mode: Onsite.

Additional Preferred qualifications:

• Proven self-starter with ability to navigate ambiguity and lead teams through complex challenges
• Experience with electrophysiology devices and/or Class II or Class III medical device development
• Background in catheter design and understanding of cardiovascular anatomy
• Demonstrated leadership in product development and technical team management
• Ability to synthesize diverse technical inputs and drive holistic solutions
• Systems engineering mindset with the ability to define unmet needs and translate them into solutions

Benefits • Life-Work Integration • Community • Career Growth

Early Careers Programs:Create and oversee initiatives focused on recruiting early career professionals, including internships, co-op programs, and entry-level positions. Build strong partnerships with local colleges and universities to be seen as an employer of choice. Continue to build upon the early career program to drive hiring and establish strong talent pipelines for the future.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs):Establish and monitor KPIs to measure the success of recruitment efforts, ensuring continuous improvement and achievement of targets.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in talent acquisition within a large, matrixed organization, including at least 5 years in a leadership role.
• Exceptional leadership skills with a track record of managing and developing high-performing, large teams.
• Experience in developing proactive talent strategies to support a high-growth company in a competitive market.
• Proven track record of developing and implementing early career recruitment strategies and programs.
• Demonstrated proficiency in recruitment software and AI platforms, with the ability to leverage data analytics for informed decision-making.
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to influence key stakeholders and drive organizational change.
• Experience leading teams through periods of transformation, demonstrating resilience and adaptability in fast-paced environments.
• Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities, with a passion for continuous improvement and innovation.
• Ability to build collaborative relationships across business units and functions, promoting an agile and unified approach to talent acquisition.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated ability to understand the business and the critical role that the talent acquisition function plays in driving top-line growth and operational income.
• Proven experience in developing strong relationships with key stakeholders across the organization.
• Disruptive mindset and a demonstrated passion for championing change initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and execute talent strategies that drive organizational success.
• Proficiency in using recruitment software and tools.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to travel as needed.

Costa Rica-Heredia

About the role:

Support the design and development of products, materials, process changes, or new technology for projects with moderate to high complexity. Under minimum supervision/guidance, research data, compiles, analyzes, and reports testing to establish technical specifications for designing or modifying products, processes, and materials.

Your responsibilities include:

• Successfully completes complex engineering work in one or more of the following: product design and development, complex engineering tests and design experiments, preparation of specifications, product capability studies, research investigations, and process/test documentation through the product lifecycle.
• Develop solutions to a variety of problems of high complexity and scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of identifiable factors.
• Summarizes, analyzes, and draws conclusions from test results. Designs and prepares complex reports to communicate results to the technical community.
• Translates customer needs into product requirements and design specifications.
• Responsible for engineering documentation.
• Works cooperatively with process development, quality, manufacturing, regulatory, clinical, and marketing on complex projects to ensure project success.
• May train, provide work direction, and supervise technicians and entry-level engineers.
• Works under general direction or within a team to complete projects and special assignments.
• Establishes and cultivates a range of business relationships to facilitate the completion of assignments. Influences project team and peers on business solutions.
• Cooperate in determining goals and objectives for projects. May lead projects within the function or department and/or represent the role in larger project teams.
• Performs troubleshooting on product problems related to design, material, or process.

What we are looking for:

• Bachelor's/Licenciature Degree: Mechatronics, Electronics, Electrical, Mechanical, Materials Science, Biomedical, Industrial, Chemical Engineering or related field.
• English level: +90%.
• Experience: +2 years in related positions.
• Knowledge of ISO 13485, MDR, and FDA medical device requirements, including design controls, product life cycle, validation/verification activities, and process improvement.
• Ability to travel internationally.

Work Mode: Onsite

Benefits • Life-Work Integration • Community • Career Growth

Francisco Munoz Munoz

About the role:

Executive for a group of product lines, technology or specialized functions. Primary responsibilities include the identification, development, and implementation of strategic initiatives, franchise structure, management development.

Your Responsibilities Include:

• Identifies new strategies and projects for the investigation, design, and implementation of new or improved products and/or applications.
• Creates and champions improvement efforts.
• Identifies future technology and intellectual property critical to future business growth and drives implementation. Active participant in the due diligence process.
• Leads technology advancements for the department.
• Develops and ensures budgets and schedules meet corporate requirement.
• Ensures that new product and processing technologies are ready for new product development efforts.
• Have extensive internal contacts across BSC and external contacts with physicians and/or industry specialists.
• Collaboratively determines short and long term product strategies and technologies.
• Ensures implementation of functional excellence initiatives.
• Encourages problem-solving processes leading to solutions that can be leveraged across divisions.
• Ensure sharing of initiatives/ideas and accomplishments across the divisions.
• Responsible for succession planning and the development and implementation of retention strategies.
• Proactively reviews future technologies and plans needed resources with appropriate technical skills either through external search or training to prepare.

What we're looking for:

• Bachelor or Licenciature degree in Mechanical, Electromechanical, Electronic, Mechatronic, Electrical Industrial Maintenance or related field.
• Experience: minimum of 8 years in R&D or product development, preferably in the medical device industry.
• Experience managing cross-functional teams and product development cycles.
• Exposure to regulatory submissions and audits is a plus.
• Understanding of design for manufacturability and reliability.
• Experience with regulatory frameworks: ISO 13485, FDA 21 CFR Part 820, EU MDR.
• Strong project management and communication skills.

Costa Rica-Heredia

Hybrid Roles:

Your responsibilities include:

• Recruiting, coaching, and developing organizational talent
• Prioritizing resource and budget needs across competing projects
• Fostering a diverse workplace that enables all participants to contribute to their full potential in pursuit of organizational objectives
• Keep the organization's vision and values at the forefront of decision-making and actions
• Demonstrate effective change leadership
• Build strategic partnerships to further departmental and organizational objectives
• Develop and execute organizational and operational policies that affect one or more groups by utilizing technical/professional knowledge and skills
• Provide technical directions to the team to ensure the best engineering principles are utilized for product development
• Make decisions regarding work plans and schedules to achieve department objectives

Minimum Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above in Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or related field
• 5+ years of hardware development-related work experience
• 2+ years of experience in direct management of hardware engineers or responsibility for overseeing technical employees’ work
• Experience with a company that makes a physical product (medical device, wearable device, aerospace, automotive, electrical components, or equipment) rather than a service.
• Strong understanding of digital circuit design, analog design experience related to power management systems, wireless receivers and transmitters, battery charging circuits, oscillators, tuned circuits, filters, matching networks, and embedded systems.
• Experience with common lab equipment such as power supplies, source meters, Oscilloscopes, data scopes, Spectrum analyzers, and Network analyzers etc.
• Proficiency in electrical design tools (e.g., Altium, OrCAD, AutoCAD Electrical).
• Excellent communication, leadership, and organizational skills.
• Knowledge of requirement verification
• Knowledge of design Controls with a particular focus on requirements, design, verification, and traceability. Experience writing documents, reports, memos, and change requests
• Hands-on experience with product development lifecycle.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• English Advanced 90-99% (C1/C2)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing in a regulated product industry (medical device, aerospace, automotive, or defense)
• Experience working with a global R&D team
• Experience prioritizing resource needs across competing projects
• Experience in leading change management initiatives
• Strong communication skills, including technical discussions at all levels
• Experience with medical equipment regulatory standards (IEC 60601, ISO 14708)
• Medical device experience in implantable systems (e.g., pacemaker or defibrillator) development with hardware/Firmware integration

Costa Rica-Heredia

About the role:

• The Principal Project Manager role will play an integral part in leading Sustaining/product integration projects within the Peripheral Interventional (PI) and/or Interventional Cardiology (IC) Division. Scope of projects includes all product support activities from initial launch to product end of life across PI business units and manufacturing sites. Project size ranges from small one-off tasks to large process improvement, design change, design transfers, line extension and projects/Corporate initiatives driving global productivity.
• Work directly with supporting cross-functions across business units and manufacturing sites. Cross-functional teams include, but not limited to, Research & Development, Design Assurance, Packaging, Regulatory, Process Development, Operations, Supplier Engineering/Quality, Supply Chain and Clinical.

Project/Program Management:

• Develops and implements overall project plan, including cost, schedule, risk and performance and monitors progress against business key objectives and goals.
• Identify prioritization and resource needs for assigned projects and activities with supporting cross-functions.
• Identify, communicate and manage technical challenges and business risks.
• Drive and influence results by acting with speed, agility and adaptability, assigning clear authority and accountability while integrating and aligning efforts across manufacturing sites and cross-functions.

• Provides structured thinking to project team on overall approach and delegates as appropriate.
• Directs and trains key project management processes.
• Leads the team in appropriate decision making through strong influence and the ability to analyze options and implications.
• Investigate and develop approach/solution to address technical problems with project teams.
• Direct control over activities and budget of one or more functional areas, divisions, product groups, projects/programs and/or operations.

• Foster a diverse workplace that enables all team members to contribute to their full potential in pursuit of organizational objectives.

• Provide timely communication on project progress updates to all relevant cross-functions and levels within the organization, including presentations to senior leadership.

Communication:

• Responsible for team and cross-functional level communications.
• Responsible for elevating critical business decisions to the appropriate management boards and/or functional managers.
• Liaison between the team and the Business Planning Team/Franchise Leadership Team (BPT/FLT), as required.

Relationship/People Management:

• Lead, coach and help diverse and dispersed project team members to execute towards overall project goal(s).
• Provides input to cross-functional Managers/Directors on team and team member performance.
• Develops and maintains strong relationships with functional heads to drive success of project team members and overall team member contributions.
• Ability to develop cohesive and collaborative cross-functional teams throughout project lifecycle phases.

Product/Compliance Management:

• Directs and/or provides input to the technical approach on product design and process changes.
• Directs and/or provides input on compliance update/changes on processes and/or systems.
• Identifies, communicates, and manages project risk.
• Monitor and ensures compliance with company policies and procedures (i.e. federal/country and regulatory requirements).

Process Management:

• Product lifecycle process knowledge to deliver and to maintain high quality and high impact deliverables.
• Knowledge of quality system use for the creation and continued compliance of products.
• Actively reviews policy and practice improvements to drive functional excellence.
• Influences cross-functional systems effectiveness.
• Financial management, including budget, forecast, and strategic plan input and preparation.

Key Leadership Competencies

• Strategic Thinking
• Communication
• Planning
• Influence

What we’re looking for:

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in Engineering or Project Management.
• More than 8 years of relevant experience, preferably within medical device industry.
• Small and large cross-functional project team lead experience.
• Must be willing and able to travel internationally ~10% of the time.
• Works under minimal supervision.

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP certification.
• Previous Sustaining and/or product integration experience and/or knowledge.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and work together with a cross-functional, multi-site sites.
• Strong organization, execution and communication skills.
• Candidate to be comfortable in front of all levels of the organization as well as external customers.
• Candidate to have strong leadership and interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships within project teams.
• Problem solving technical expertise.

Costa Rica-Heredia

About the role:

We are looking for a Systems Engineer to become a member of a dynamic team that provides technical leadership with a mix of mechanical, electrical, software, and catheter engineers and an interdisciplinary team of Marketing, Regulatory, and Quality. This individual will work on new projects from concept to commercialization and projects that maintain our currently released mapping system. The individual will be responsible for defining, analyzing and implementing system requirements, risk analysis, and usability as well as provide input to cross-functional deliverables.

Key Responsibilities:

• Defines and analyzes system requirements, clinical workflows, and input/output processes by using current systems engineering methods and technologies.
• Solve system problems by analyzing the situation and recommending corrective or alternative actions.
• Documents system architecture and design control elements by writing documents, reports, and memos.
• Collaborates in the translation of customer needs into technical requirements, engaging the field, marketing, service and other functions as needed.
• Provides expertise and conducts evaluation of validation and verification activities.
• Assist with industry-based standards testing for safety and EMC according to 60601-1
• Supports the risk analysis for the project.
• Works with a cross-functional team and serves as an R&D representative on cross-functional deliverables.

Minumum Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree in Engineering (EE, computer science, biomedical or mechanical) and related field.
• 3-5 Years of experience within the Medical Device industry with BS degree, 0-3 Years with MS or PhD
• Experience with technologies for image-guided minimally invasive procedures.
• Demonstrated understanding of medical image generation and processing, such as intracardiac echo.
• Strong communications and time management abilities.
• Ability to provide technical leadership within cross-functional teams.
• Track record of independent and solution-oriented work style.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Medical Device experience working with imaging and signal processing systems (EEG, Electrophysiology, etc.).
• Experience conducting simulations, mathematical analysis and/or system interaction analysis.
• At least 2 years of engineering experience in mixed HW/SW systems.
• Technical experience with digital and analog low noise systems.
• Usability engineering experience.
• Experience with IEC 62304