{"id":166536,"url":"https://alion.io/job/bd-staff-engineer-staff-designer-innovation","title":"Staff Engineer / Staff Designer, Innovation","company":{"id":1821,"name":"BD","domain":"bd.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/bd","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":86,"open_postings":40,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.55,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":31,"computed_at":"2026-10-21T05:46:15Z"}},"role":"Design","role_family":"Design","seniority":"staff","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Durham, United States","United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":161000,"max_usd":280000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":178},"experience_years_min":7,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-06-05T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-06-05","last_verified_at":"2026-10-21T07:00:32Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":138,"trust":{"level":"stale","repost_count":0,"flags":["stale"],"days_open":138},"description":"We are the people who give possibilities purpose\nBD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us-from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year-to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities.\n\nJob Description\nJob Summary:\nAs a Staff-level Innovation leader within BD’s Urology & Critical Care (UCC) organization, you will play a critical role in advancing opportunities through the UCC Innovation Process. This role is focused on transforming validated needs into differentiated, testable, and scalable concepts that are ready for development investment.\nThis position is intended for an experienced engineer or industrial designer with a strong blend of medical device development discipline and consumer product design mindset. You will lead concept development, prototyping, and learning cycles that balance clinical performance, business viability, and consumer-grade usability.\nYour work will directly influence which innovation opportunities progress into the UCC portfolio, shaping next-generation solutions across continence care, infection prevention, monitoring, and home-based therapies\nKey Responsibilities:\nIdentify focus areas for critical innovation projects\nTranslate prioritized needs and value propositions into multiple concept directions, clearly articulating user benefits, technical approach, and business rationale.\n\nDefine target customers and users (patients, caregivers, clinicians) and ensure concepts address distinct needs across care settings, including home use.\n\nLead early concept prototyping (physical, digital, experiential) to explore usability, feasibility, and differentiation.\n\nPartner with engineering, industrial design, human factors, and clinical stakeholders to assess technical readiness and identify critical development gaps.\n\nEvaluate early IP landscape and contribute to invention disclosures and protection strategies.\n\nClearly document assumptions, uncertainties, and learning plans required to advance concepts out of Innovation\n\nRefine value propositions and differentiation versus competitive and alternative solutions based on testing and stakeholder feedback.\n\nDrive concept down-selection using structured criteria including user desirability, technical feasibility, regulatory risk, and business attractiveness.\n\nPartner with technical to assess design space and critical functions\n\nContribute to early technology and system architecture decisions to support scalable product development.\n\nEnsure concepts exiting Innovation are clearly defined, evidence-backed, and development-ready.\n\nCross-Functional Leadership & Collaboration\nAct as a central integrator across engineering, design, clinical, regulatory, quality, marketing, and commercial teams.\n\nBridge consumer design principles with medical device development rigor, ensuring solutions are intuitive without compromising safety or compliance.\n\nCollaborate globally to incorporate regional insights and ensure concepts can scale across markets.\n\nCommunication & Change Leadership\nClearly communicate concept rationale, trade-offs, and recommendations to senior leaders and governance forums.\n\nUse compelling storytelling, visuals, and prototypes to drive understanding and alignment.\n\nSupport innovation capability building within UCC by mentoring teams and contributing to best practices for concept development\n\nCritical Traits:\nProven ability to move ambiguity into clarity through structured experimentation and learning.\n\nStrong judgment in evaluating concepts and making evidence-based recommendations for investment or termination.\n\nDemonstrated ability to balance user desirability, technical feasibility, and business viability.\n\nExcellent communication skills across technical, clinical, design, and executive audiences.\n\nSystems thinker who understands how early decisions impact downstream development, regulatory, and commercialization outcomes.\n\nDeep empathy for patients, caregivers, and consumers, particularly in home and self-care contexts.\n\nComfortable leading without authority and influencing cross-functional teams through insight and credibility.\n\nBias toward action, rapid prototyping, and learning-driven progress.\n\nRequired Qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree required in Engineering, Industrial Design, Human Factors, or related field.\n\nMinimum of 7 + years experience in medical device development, healthcare innovation, or consumer product development.\n\nDemonstrated experience progressing concepts from early ideation through validation and down-selection.\n\nExperience applying structured innovation methods (e.g., Biodesign, Design Thinking, Jobs to be Done, DFSS).\n\nHands-on experience with prototyping, user testing, and formative evaluation.\n\nExperience designing or developing products intended for home care, self-use, or consumer health environments strongly preferred.\n\nFamiliarity with regulatory, usability, and risk considerations for medical or health-adjacent products\n\nTravel: Yes, 10% domestic and international\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nMaster’s degree preferred (Engineering, Industrial Design, Human-Centered Design, or equivalent).\n\nFamiliarity with regulatory, usability, and risk considerations for medical or health-adjacent products\n\nAt BD, we prioritize on-site collaboration because we believe it fosters creativity, innovation, and effective problem-solving, which are essential in the fast-paced healthcare industry. For most roles, we require a minimum of 4 days of in-office presence per week to maintain our culture of excellence and ensure smooth operations, while also recognizing the importance of flexibility and work-life balance.\nFor certain roles at BD, employment is contingent upon the Company’s receipt of sufficient proof that you are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. In some locations, testing for COVID-19 may be available and/or required. Consistent with BD’s Workplace Accommodations Policy, requests for accommodation will be considered pursuant to applicable law.\nWhy Join Us?\nTo find purpose in the possibilities, we need people who can see the bigger picture, who understand the human story that underpins everything we do. We welcome people with the imagination and drive to help us reinvent the future of healthcare. At BD, you’ll discover a culture in which you can learn, grow and thrive.\nWe believe that when people connect in person, we learn faster, collaborate more deeply, and build a stronger culture. Join us and enjoy a culture where face-to-face collaboration supports your learning, your progress, and your success.\nTo learn more about BD visit https://bd.com/careers.\nBecton, Dickinson, and Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, marital or domestic or civil union status, familial status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, disability, military eligibility or veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.\nRequired Skills\nOptional Skills\n.\nPrimary Work Location\nUSA NC - Durham - Davis DriveAdditional Locations\nUSA GA - Covington BMDWork Shift","description_format":"text","description_chars":7400,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":7,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Real Estate","Sales & Marketing","Property Development","Lead Generation"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-06-05T00:00:00Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":11,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.384,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":138,"expected_fill_days":31,"reasons":["conf:3","stale_co","velocity","win:tail","crowd:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-21T05:46:15Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/bd-staff-engineer-staff-designer-innovation","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/bd-staff-engineer-staff-designer-innovation.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-21T16:22:43Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":23254,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1821},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1821"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fbd-staff-engineer-staff-designer-innovation"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fbd-staff-engineer-staff-designer-innovation"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fbd-staff-engineer-staff-designer-innovation"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/bd-staff-engineer-staff-designer-innovation\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fbd-staff-engineer-staff-designer-innovation"}]}