NCHInnovationFellowshipEngineer

**Overview:** **Job Description Summary:** Supports innovation projects developing medical technologies while participating in the Innovation Fellowship training program. **Job Description:** **Essential Functions:** * Assists with the management of innovation projects from inception to commercialization, ensuring adherence to timelines, milestones, and deliverables. * Provides technical expertise and engineering support for the development of pediatric medical devices, including prototyping, testing, and design. * Facilitates effective communication and collaboration with clinical innovators, external partners, and internal teams. * Participates in training programs focused on front-end innovation, human-centric observation techniques, needs identification, concept generation, and intellectual property strategy. * Assists in developing regulatory and reimbursement strategies, as well as business plans for new medical technologies, including market analysis and customer discovery. * Engages with medical innovators to identify unmet medical needs and opportunities for innovation through clinical immersion and observation * Prepares and presents project documentation, including invention disclosures, grant applications, and progress reports, to support the commercialization process. **Education Requirement:** * Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Business, or related field, required. * Master’s Degree or PhD in Biomedical or Mechanical Engineering, Business Administration, or related field, preferred. * **Skills:** * Comfort with ambiguity and complex problems. * Ability to work effectively with a wide variety of professionals/disciplines. * Strong communicator, both written and verbal. **Experience:** * Current US Resident and Citizen, required. * One year of related experience, preferred. **Physical Requirements:** OCCASIONALLY: Bend/twist, Interpreting Data, Lifting / Carrying: 0-10 lbs, Power Tools, Walking FREQUENTLY: Audible speech, Decision Making, Hearing acuity