Principal Field Clinical Engineer - New England/ North East

Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology, dedicated to alleviating pain, restoring health, and extending life. The Principal Field Clinical Engineer will be responsible for leading clinical studies, supporting product development, and serving as a technical liaison between engineering and the medical community.

Responsibilities:

• Provides technical assistance to clinical study sites by serving as the technical resource between engineering and the medical community
• Present for all ablation procedures at study sites for investigational device studies to guide the physician on the requirements for the protocol and ensure high quality data is being collected
• Accountable for identifying investigators, presenting protocols for a study, assisting investigators in product application, and submitting status reports on all programs
• Provides all aspects of assistance for Clinical Research studies by identifying investigators, nominating and qualifying sites, performing activation duties, providing training, encouraging enrollment, ensuring quality data acquisition and performing study closure activities
• Accountable for gaining and maintaining knowledge of clinical sites to best understand and assess physicians’ interests and capabilities
• Develops expertise in clinical and market released products and evidence, and functions as a local technical/clinical resource for Medtronic and the customer
• Accountable for developing and leveraging relationships in the field to drive clinical activity and maintain focus on the customer
• Provides feedback from clinical sites on the performance of the product to be incorporated in engineering designs or enhancements, assists research and development in evaluating concepts for new products, and considers potential modifications for existing devices while serving as a technical resource between engineering and the medical pacing community
• Provides prospective and real-time feedback to clinical study management in study design and document development
• Plays a critical role in educating customers, sales partners, and internal Clinical Research talent on the technology that they assist

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree
• Minimum of 7 years of clinical research, clinical specialist/field clinical engineer/clinical sales representative experience
• Or Masters degree with 5 years of clinical research, clinical specialist/field clinical engineer/clinical sales representative experience
• Or PhD with 3 years of clinical research, clinical specialist/field clinical engineer/clinical sales representative experience
• Electrophysiology and cardiac ablation device training strongly preferred
• Experience at Medtronic or within the medical device industry
• Experience in the management of clinical devices
• Experience in a Cath lab, biomedical engineering, hospital/clinic or medical sales
• Experience in Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and/or regulatory compliance guidelines for clinical trials
• Experience in clinical studies and/or trial site management/protocols
• Experience collaborating with cross functional clinical partners/customers, physicians and/or medical sales colleagues in the healthcare industry