Your opportunity

In this role, you will gain hands-on experience specifying, performing, and overseeing verification and validation activities on complex and leading-edge medical devices. Your work in verification and validation will necessitate interactions with all parts of the company including design engineering, clinical research, field operations, regulatory affairs, and manufacturing. You will have an excellent opportunity to gain a broad and comprehensive understanding of medical device R&D, while performing detailed technical work.

Please note, this opportunity is a hybrid work arrangement, located in Burnaby, BC.

Meaningful work you will be a part of

You will engage in a diverse set of activities including some or all of the following:

• Plan and execute hands-on testing activities to evaluate product performance

• Characterize manufacturing processes and assess process capability using design of experiments

• Validate tests using statistical methods to assess repeatability, reproducibility, and accuracy

• Analyze test data using Excel and Minitab

• Author protocols and reports to support regulatory submissions for new and existing products

• Interpret and implement medical device standards and regulations

• Collaborate with stakeholders to assess process or design changes and propose comprehensive test plans

• Participate in root cause investigations, corrective and preventive actions

• Drive continuous improvement of company procedures as they pertain to verification and validation

• Occasionally design and fabricate test jigs and fixtures using Solidworks, CAMWorks, CNC mills, lathes, and other tools

What you bring to the team

Our Kardium team is smart, creative, and passionate about creating cutting-edge medical devices to help improve people's lives. We work within a collaborative environment based on trust and respect. And we understand that only by working together can we solve the unsolvable.

You will be successful in this role because you possess these attributes:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in engineering (mechanical, mechatronics or engineering physics is preferred)

• At least 3 years of testing and design experience in the medical device industry, or 5 years of hands-on experience with mechanical/hardware product testing

• Practical knowledge of mechanical systems, experimental design, and statistical analysis

• Excellent collaboration and interpersonal skills

• Strong written and technical documentation skills

• Ability to manage multiple tasks with a high degree of accuracy and timeliness

Compensation

Kardium has listed the total cash compensation range (base salary + 5% Retirement Savings Plan contribution) that we expect to pay applicants for this role, as of the time of this posting. Pay offered will be determined based on numerous relevant business and candidate factors including, for example, education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, and business or organizational needs. For candidates with more or less experience than listed above, the pay range will be adjusted.

As a permanent employee, you will also participate in Kardium's stock option plan.

• $75,000 - $105,000 (CAD Annually)

Your Benefits & Well-being

The total cash we've listed for this position includes a base salary, plus an annual contribution to a Retirement Savings Plan account to help support your financial goals.

Comprehensive medical & dental coverage for all permanent employees - effective as of Day 1, with no waiting period.

Work-day flexibility - we offer a flexible work environment for daily working hours. In addition, we provide 3 personal days per year.

Support for you (and your dependents) overall well-being.

Family building - we provide top up for maternity leave, adoptive leave, and parental leave for non-birthing parents. Employees can also enroll in benefit coverage for fertility drug treatment.

Career progression and learning support.

Professional membership support.