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Our Global Operations & Quality team plays a central part in ensuring our products are delivered to patients with cardiovascular disease. You’ll partner cross-functionally with manufacturing operations and sales teams, delivering thoughtful solutions to complex challenges all while developing your knowledge of the medical device industry. Whether your work includes technical engineering, strategic business planning, process innovation, product compliance, supplier management, or enabling supply chain operations, you will be making a meaningful contribution to our team and to patients all over the world.\nInnovation starts from the heart. Heart valve disease impact millions of lives, spanning all ages and geographies. As communities globally address the opportunities and challenges of cardiovascular care, telling a compelling and authentic story is more crucial than ever. At Edwards Lifesciences, our Manufacturing and Engineering teams develop tools, technologies, and processes to power the production of life-changing medical devices to transform patients’ lives.\nWithin the Tissue Process Engineering Group, this position serves as a technical contributor and workstream lead, supporting the development, integration, deployment, and optimization of advanced tissue manufacturing and laser-based processes for the structural heart valve portfolio.\nHow you’ll make an impact:\nServe as a technical authority for advanced tissue manufacturing, laser processing, and optical systems integration across the Edwards Implant Network.\n\nLead technology project workstreams from concept through implementation, including definition of system hardware and software architecture, prototyping and characterization, user requirements/equipment specification definition, vendor selection and management, commissioning, site transfer, and production ramp-up.\n\nDevelop and maintain system architecture, interface definitions, alignment tolerances, parameter windows, and subsystem specifications for optics and/or laser-based equipment.\n\nSupport the development, evaluation, and integration of complex tissue process technologies and equipment into new product development programs and/or commercial manufacturing and manage lifecycle improvements.\n\nSupport the technical project lead overseeing technology development and commercialization, with contributions to project schedules, managing technical risks and mitigation, developing validation and implementation strategies, working in a cross-functional team, and facilitating stakeholder communication throughout design, build, validation, site transfer, and sustainment phases.\n\nPartner closely with the Tissue & Biotechnology Center of Excellence (TABCOE), New Product Development (NPD), New Product Introduction (NPI), Quality, Regulatory, Validation, suppliers, and global manufacturing sites to translate design intent and Voice of the Factory (VoF) into robust tissue manufacturing processes, which includes laser and optical system solutions.\n\nConduct optimization, and validation of complex equipment or laser-based processes, including authoring and executing characterization studies, IQ/OQ/PQ, and subsequent technical documentation in compliance with regulatory requirements.\n\nDesign and execute complex experiments, characterization studies, and develop validation strategies to qualify tissue manufacturing technologies in a highly regulated environment.\n\nDiagnose and troubleshoot equipment issues; identify and document root cause and appropriate corrective action.\n\nApply principles of optics, optomechanical design, mechanical, electro-mechanical design, automation, vision systems, artificial intelligence, and data analytics to advance tissue manufacturing capability.\n\nOwn laser and optical process development activities, including, parameter development, process window characterization, alignment and calibration, process capability studies, and ongoing optimization for yield, throughput, and quality.\n\nAct as a mentor and technical coach to engineers and technicians, elevating organizational capability in tissue processing and laser technologies.\n\nPromote ergonomic, laser safety, and automation best practices in the design and implementation of tissue process solutions.\n\nWhat you’ll need:\nBachelor’s degree in Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related engineering or scientific field, with 6 years of engineering experience, including technology development or site transfer in a highly regulated environment.\n\nHands-on experience designing, integrating, characterizing, or troubleshooting laser and optical systems.\n\nTravel up to 25% domestically and internationally.\n\nOnsite required.\n\nWhat else we look for:\nAdvanced degree in Optical Engineering, Photonics or a related technical field\n\nLean Six Sigma certification.\n\nExperience in the medical device industry or another highly regulated manufacturing environment.\n\nPlan and execute optical verification using appropriate diagnostics and metrology, such as beam profiling, power and energy measurement, pulse characterization, imaging performance, focus verification, and calibration studies.\n\nDemonstrated experience with optical components and subsystems such as beam delivery, scanners, focusing optics, cameras, illumination, sensors, metrology, machine vision, and automated alignment or calibration.\n\nExperience with optical design and analysis tools such as Zemax OpticStudio, CODE V, or equivalent ray-tracing software, including tolerance analysis and design for manufacturability.\n\nExperience serving as a technical project lead with a track record of successfully transferring complex manufacturing or laser-based technologies across sites or product lines.\n\nStrong financial acumen related to capital equipment, budget and 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