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Title:  Principal Quality Assurance / Validation Engineer
Location:  Piscataway, NJ
Job Type:  Direct Hire
Compensation:  $100,000.00 to $120,000.00 per Year
Reference Code:  949538-AQG
Description:  Our client is seeking a highly skilled/motivated Quality Assurance/Validation Engineer to ensure medical systems are compliant with regulatory requirements. Responsibilities include:
  • Provide quality engineering support to the Hardware Development Team
  • Review and approve Design Inputs for adherence to Quality System Regulation Design Controls
  • Work with clinicians to gather critical customer input and validation of prototypes
  • Convert all design inputs into a Design Input Document and Traceability Matrix
  • Create risk assessments for Scanners as per ISO 14971
  • Create failure modes and effects analysis for design, manufacturing, and clinical aspects of device
  • Combine all risk assessments
  • Use all risk determinations for overall device to drive Clinical and Design Validation
  • Write Design Validation Protocols
  • Ensure risks are identified and validated properly with correct confidence and reliability
  • Write Design Verification Protocols where all outputs are compared to Design Inputs
  • Attend Design Review Meetings
  • Ensure meeting minutes are recorded with all action items and objections
  • Assign corrective actions
  • Escalate items to leadership when required
  • Create quality system documentation in accordance with Design Controls and QSR
  • Establish and refine documentation control and regulatory processes for instrument development engineering and be responsible for regulatory compliance
  • Write Software Validation Protocols and Reports for embedded software in digital pathology-scanning devices
  • Provide Quality engineering support for clinical trials
  • Write and help execute manufacturing process validations and write Validation Reports
  • Successfully transfer QA design into manufacturing
  • Ensure measurement instrumentation is calibrated and traceable to NIST
Requirements:  The successful applicant will possess the following experience and skills:
  • BS degree in an Engineering/Life Sciences discipline or equivalent
  • 8+ years of Quality Engineering (Design Controls) in a Medical Device including embedded software of the device
  • 5+ years of experience in a Medical Device Manufacturing environment
  • Experience in interfacing with regulatory agencies during FDA or ISO-type audits
  • Software proficient in Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office
  • Experience in General Quality Systems software
  • Ability to perform statistical analysis of test and clinical results in order to determine statistical validity or the results
  • Experience with multiple Medical Device releases, specifically software centric capital equipment