Engineering Advisor

Job Summary

This is a highly strategic individual contributor role focused on shaping Insulet's next-generation product platforms and user experiences. The position blends systems architecture, human-centered design, product innovation, and technology development to solve complex challenges across hardware, software, UX, and medical devices. The ideal candidate is a multidisciplinary innovator who can identify unmet user needs, develop breakthrough concepts, influence product strategy, and work hands-on with technical teams to transform ideas into impactful solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to the vision, architecture, and definition of next-generation product platforms.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to solve complex product, technology, and user-experience challenges.
• Develop innovative concepts that integrate hardware, software, industrial design, and user experience into cohesive solutions.
• Apply systems thinking to identify opportunities, constraints, risks, and tradeoffs across complete product ecosystems.
• Conduct and synthesize user-centered and ethnographic research to uncover latent customer needs and opportunities for innovation.
• Influence product direction through insight, prototyping, concept generation, and technical rigor.
• Create compelling visualizations, concepts, prototypes, and narratives that help teams align around future product visions.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, human factors, design, product management, clinical, and business teams.
• Generate intellectual property, invention disclosures, and novel approaches to difficult product challenges.
• Serve as a trusted resource for the company's most critical and complex innovation efforts.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Product Design, Human Factors, Industrial Design, UX/UI Design, or a related field.
• Proven experience in multidisciplinary product development, ideally involving hardware, software, and user experience.
• Strong systems-thinking ability with experience defining product architectures and solving complex technical challenges.
• Experience translating user needs into innovative product concepts and solutions.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, design, product management, clinical, and business teams.
• Experience with prototyping, concept development, and iterative product development.
• Strong communication, visualization, and storytelling skills to influence stakeholders and drive alignment.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, navigate ambiguity, and lead through expertise rather than formal authority.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree (MS, PhD, or equivalent) in Engineering, Design, Human Factors, Innovation, or a related discipline.
• Experience in medical device development, healthcare technology, or regulated industries.
• Expertise in systems architecture, human-centered design, human factors, industrial design, UX/UI design, or innovation strategy.
• Experience conducting ethnographic, qualitative, and user-centered research.
• Demonstrated success identifying and developing breakthrough product opportunities and future technology platforms.
• Experience generating intellectual property, patents, or invention disclosures.
• Strong background integrating mechanical, software, and user experience solutions into cohesive product ecosystems.
• Recognized thought leader with a track record of influencing product direction through innovation, technical expertise, and strategic thinking.