Sr Principal Clinical Engineer

About Orthopaedics

Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we're developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments. Our Orthopaedics teams help keep more than 6 million people moving each year while delivering clinical and economic value to surgeons and healthcare systems. Our teams build solutions for joint reconstruction; trauma and craniomaxillofacial; sports, extremities, and elective foot and ankle; spine; and robotics and digital surgery.

Purpose

The Clinical Engineer will act as a Procedural Workflow Architect to define and shape end-to-end surgical procedure workflows across preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative care. This role translates clinical, operational, economic, usability, and adoption needs into integrated procedural requirements that guide implant, instrument, enabling technology, digital, biologic, and service development. By connecting real-world surgical practice with cross-functional product development, the role helps ensure future solutions are intuitive, adoptable, clinically meaningful, economically relevant, and differentiated in the marketplace.

Job Responsibilities

• Define and design end-to-end integrated procedural workflows for prioritized surgical procedures across preoperative planning, intraoperative execution, and postoperative follow-up including implants, instruments, technologies, digital applications, biologics, and services.
• Translate surgeon, care team, patient, health system, commercial, clinical, operational, economic, usability, and adoption needs into procedural requirements, user needs, use scenarios, design inputs, and development guidance.
• Map current- and future-state workflows to identify unmet needs, adoption barriers, usability challenges, economic pain points, and opportunities for meaningful differentiation.
• Partner with R&D, clinical, medical education, regulatory, quality, marketing, commercial, and external clinical stakeholders to align workflow priorities, solution intent, and integrated procedural requirements.
• Evaluate concepts for usability, workflow fit, clinical relevance, adoption risk, and end-user value to prioritize procedural problems and guide clinical, technical, operational, and business tradeoffs to improve efficiency, consistency, usability, and adoption.
• Translate procedural needs and complex inputs into requirements, recommendations, and development guidance.

Qualifications Required

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, biomedical engineering, life sciences, clinical discipline, health care administration, or related field required; advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum 8 years of relevant experience in medical device, orthopaedics, surgical innovation, product development, clinical workflow design, human factors, systems engineering, or related health care technology environment.
• Proficiency with Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Figma, Miro, FigJam, Polarion native; experience with 3D visualization, CAD, KeyShot, Rhino, SolidWorks, NX or rapid prototyping methods is a plus.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder alignment skills; able to influence without authority in a matrixed environment.
• Lead ambiguous, early-stage problem framing and convert insights into structured development priorities.
• Familiarity with medical device development, design controls, risk management, and regulated product development.

Competencies

• Visual storytelling and storyboard development
• Industrial design and human-centered design methodology
• Workflow mapping, journey mapping, and process visualization
• Concept sketching, ideation, and rapid visual prototyping
• Design communication for complex hardware, software, and procedural systems
• Cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder facilitation
• Ability to connect and translate user needs, clinical context, and design direction
• Presentation development and executive-ready communication

Other Requirements

Will require travel to R&D sites, labs, surgeon engagement sessions, customer research activities, or project workshops. Must comply with all applicable company policies, procedures, quality expectations, confidentiality requirements, and regulatory standards. Role may be aligned to front-end innovation, systems engineering, human factors, or product development depending on organizational structure and project needs.