# Sr R&D Engineer

Description Summary: The Senior R&D Engineer is a hands-on technical contributor who independently leads the design, development, and transfer to manufacturing of catheter-based medical devices, components, and assemblies for LightningCath customers. Working under general direction, this role takes products from concept and feasibility through design verification and process validation, applies a working knowledge of polymer materials and catheter construction methods, owns defined project workstreams, and provides technical direction to technicians, operators, and less experienced engineers. Essential Duties and Responsibilities (but are not limited to): Designs and develops catheter shafts, components, and assemblies, including material selection and construction methods such as extrusion, braiding, coiling, reflow/lamination, tipping, bonding, and forming. Builds and iterates prototypes hands-on in the lab; designs and builds test fixtures, tooling, and assembly aids. Creates and maintains 3D CAD models and released drawings with appropriate tolerancing and GD&T. Develops and qualifies test methods (e.g., tensile, torque, kink, burst, flow, track/push, dimensional) and executes

- **Id**: 4295912
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/switchback-medical-sr-rd-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Brooklyn Park, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T20:20:47Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-14
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T08:45:24Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4981
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Life insurance, Parental leave, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Contract Manufacturing

## Company

- **Id**: 3872603
- **Name**: Switchback Medical
- **Domain**: switchbackmedical.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/switchbackmedical>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Paylocity

## Salary

- **Min**: 105000
- **Max**: 140000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 140000

## Technologies

- **21 CFR Part 820** — Optional: no
- **CAPA** — Optional: no
- **Design Controls** — Optional: no
- **Design of Experiments** — Optional: no
- **GD&T** — Optional: no
- **ISO 10993** — Optional: no
- **ISO 13485** — Optional: no
- **ISO 14971** — Optional: no
- **Minitab** — Optional: no
- **SolidWorks** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-14T01:10:44Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 2; Filings 12m: 2

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 34
- **Reasons**: conf:4, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 140000
- **Is top pay**: no

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