Staff R&D Engineer, Instruments - Pleasanton, CA at Calyxo

Calyxo, Inc. is a medical device company headquartered in Pleasanton, California, USA. The company was founded in 2016 to address the profound need for improved kidney stone treatment. Kidney stone disease is a common, painful condition that consumes vast amounts of healthcare resources each year. Our team is led by executives and investors with a proven track record of commercializing paradigm-shifting devices to meet unmet needs within urology.

Are you ready to change the future of kidney stone treatment? We are seeking high achievers who want to be part of a dynamic team working in a fun, diverse atmosphere.

Summary:

The Instruments Engineering team is a highly energetic and actively growing team that is responsible for developing and ultimately driving Calyxo’s instruments and accessories through to launch. In this role, you will lead design and development activities for released and next-generation devices and accessories, ensuring seamless integration of mechanical systems with vision, sensors, and software, and catalyzing the advancement of an innovative, single-use kidney stone treatment device. You will be immersed in a highly collaborative and multidisciplinary team, teaming up with cross-functional partners in Manufacturing, Quality, Marketing, Clinical, and Regulatory to successfully drive these novel concepts through all phases of development to commercialization.

In This Role, You Will:

• Lead design and development activities of new single-use devices and accessories, serving as a technical lead for these activities, and a core team lead, when required.
• Ensure design and development pathways maintain adherence to the design control process, working with cross-functional partners to enable manufacturability, reliability, and scalability.
• Create prototypes, design fixturing, devise feasibility studies, and execute testing to draw meaningful conclusions and guide product development.
• Effectively solve engineering problems through methodical root cause analysis and data-driven solution finding.
• Define and lead qualification strategies for new designs or processes, working in partnership with other teams across the organization to gain alignment.
• Meaningfully translate customer requirements into new or revised product requirements and engineering specifications.
• Use SolidWorks to create well-defined models, assemblies, and engineering drawings.
• Generate purposeful Intellectual Property (IP) and contribute to the overall IP portfolio.
• Effectively communicate project progress, results, and risks to relevant stakeholders.
• Develop test methods, create and execute protocols, and author associated reports and risk documentation.