Senior-Principal Electrical Engineer

Location: Los Angeles, CA

This position is responsible for electrical design and development of new medical device products, while also providing engineering support for commercialized and sustaining products. This role plays a critical part in design execution, verification, design transfer, and post-market improvements, working closely with Quality, Regulatory, Manufacturing, and cross-functional teams.

My client is developing breakthrough neuromodulation devices and bioelectronic medicine to treat diseases and injuries that are incurable with conventional pharmacological agents. They are building a cohesive team with complementary and multidisciplinary expertise to develop and bring our products to market.

What the team is looking for:

• Senior-level engineer with 7+ years of industry experience in regulated product development
• Strong background in analog circuit design; system-level thinking preferred
• Experience supporting manufacturing and design transfer, including collaboration with contract manufacturers
• Comfort working within Class II or Class III medical device development environments (or similarly regulated industries such as aerospace)
• Hands-on experience with verification, debugging, and failure analysis
• Exposure to signal processing is a plus

Specifically, this role will involve:

• Leading electrical design for complex medical devices from early concept through design transfer
• Defining electrical architectures, developing schematics, selecting components, and supporting PCB layout
• Supporting system integration, prototyping, verification, and validation activities
• Contributing to design controls, including requirements definition, risk management, and formal design reviews
• Partnering closely with mechanical, firmware, quality, regulatory, and manufacturing teams

In addition to new development, this engineer will support commercialized products, including:

• Sustaining engineering and post-market design improvements
• Root cause investigations related to field issues, complaints, and CAPAs
• Component obsolescence, supplier changes, and cost or reliability-driven design updates
• Regulatory impact assessments and documentation support in collaboration with Quality and Regulatory Affairs

This is a highly hands-on role, ideal for someone who enjoys working in the lab, troubleshooting and debugging hardware, and driving technical issues to closure in a regulated environment. The ideal candidate has familiarity with IEC 60601, EMC, and medical device safety standards, or brings transferable experience from another highly regulated industry with a strong foundation in documentation, quality systems, and compliance.