Advanced Clinical Biomechanics Specialist

Advanced Medical Biomechanics Specialist

This Advanced Medical Biomechanics Specialist role supports the advanced care technology and visualization engineering department, an enterprise-wide team dedicated to enhancing Intermountain's mission and vision. This position focuses on implementing advanced biomedical and visualization technologies and services, demonstrating clinical and business impact from research to practice, and transforming healthcare at Intermountain. The primary responsibilities include supporting the engineering execution and service delivery of advanced technology, biomedical and visualization service lines. This role is crucial in Intermountain Healthcare's efforts to leverage technology to improve efficiencies and outcomes in clinical settings. The specialist will handle various engineering tasks related to advanced care technology and visualization engineering, continuous improvement of existing service lines, and the execution of new service lines, including implementation and validation.

Key requirements for this position include a deep understanding of human anatomy, radiologic anatomic analysis, medical modeling, 3D visualization, and 3D printing. The role also demands specialized knowledge and experience in clinical and surgical procedures that necessitate advanced visualization modalities. Additionally, the specialist must align tasks with a medical quality management system and have experience with healthcare and medical device regulatory, privacy, and risk management requirements. This includes working with IRB protocols, FDA and ISO compliance standards, and conducting risk assessments.

The role supports the execution of established strategic priorities in specific specialties, evaluating and implementing new advanced visualization technologies and solutions. The specialist will work closely with the department director and other stakeholders, with responsibilities growing as the department matures.

Essential Functions:

• Responsible for a wide variety of technical responsibilities as it relates to the advanced care technology and immersive visualization services execution and continuous improvement of already defined service lines and initiatives and direct the use of 3D printing for prototyping and demo product visualization.
• Design, create, produce, engineer, postprocess, and deliver services provided by the Advanced Visualization engineering team as needed.
• Execution of newly formed service lines, including implementation and validation of new design concepts to meet the needs of the relevant stakeholders.
• Apply knowledge of medical device design and 3D visualization (XR and Spatial Computing) and 3D printing technologies and associated postprocessing techniques and tools, in delivering the Advanced Visualization services.
• Implement quality assurance standards such as ISO 13485, including relevant techniques.
• Maintain equipment according to timelines and schedules to ensure accurate and repeatable 3D design, prototype, and model production.
• Align tasks and work done to a given medical quality management system leveraging previous experience in healthcare and medical device regulatory, privacy, and risk management requirements.
• Execute of established strategic priorities in evaluating and implementing new advanced visualization technologies and solutions.
• Execute the day-to-day engineering needs for the department.
• Recommends and implements solutions, including support.
• Prepares and ensures accuracy of documentation of services and operations.

Skills:

• Patient-specific biomedical technology development
• Visceral anatomy segmentation and quantitative assessment
• Complex anatomy Reconstruction
• Patient specific Medical Device Design

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, biomechanical, biomedical or closely related discipline.
• Post-graduation experience of hands-on verifiable specific experience performing anatomic medical modeling, surgical guides design, diagnostic imaging processing, and 3D printing, and medical device development experience in an advanced visualization program.
• Two years' experience must be spent performing high volume of the needed specialty with aforementioned relevant experience, certain specialty might be required at the time.

Plus (in addition to education and experience above) demonstrated tangible performance of all the following is required:

• Design/case Portfolio is required.
• Medical regulatory and Quality (i.e. ISO, 510k, etc..).
• Demonstrated hands-on experience with patient specific 3D printed modeling and surgical guides design
• Experience with medical device design.
• Demonstrated medical device regulator and quality management system experience
• Demonstrated hands-on experience with Mixed reality, 3D printing and product prototyping, and POC.
• Proficient in one or more of the proprietary 3D design and anatomic modeling software programs.
• Proficient with reconstruction of soft tissue/visceral/cardiology/neuro/etc. in various specialties including counts of cases and experience portfolio.
• Skilled and experienced in maintenance and oversight of multiple 3D printing technologies, with minimum polyjet, SLS, and SLA printers.
• Demonstrated self-motivation skills and ability to independently apply analytical skills and scientific technical principles in problem solving and development.
• Demonstrated experience with academic literature review, grant funding, research design, and analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to work with many stakeholders, curate ideas and input and deliver, and validate customer needs.

Preferred:

• Masters of Science degree in Mechanical or biomechanical engineering with to 3 years of relevant aforementioned verifiable experience.
• ISO13458 experience and certification.
• 510k submission experience.
• Python Programming Experience
• Quality Assurance and Risk Analysis.
• Medical Device design experience.
• Experience with a wide variety of additive manufacturing, e.g. Stratasys FDM Thermoplastics and PolyJet Photopolymers 3D printers and knowledge of subtractive manufacturing, e.g. AWJ
• Experience with a molding and related manufacturing and prototyping techniques.
• Experience with Microsoft Project or equivalent project planning software
• Strong understanding of intellectual property (IP) considerations
• The ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment is crucial.
• Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities with strong written and oral communication skills.
• Highly self-motivated and directed with high level of attention to detail.

Physical Requirements:

• Operate equipment, tools, and computers requiring the ability to move fingers and hands.
• See and read computer monitors and documents.
• This role will on occasion require outside of regular hours and weekend support
• Lifting, operating, and maintaining lab

*Depending on skillset & years of experience, there is potential for this role to be filled at the senior level. $ 39.57 - $62.29 USD Hourly. *This position is eligible for relocation assistance.

Location: Vine Street Office Building

Work City: Murray

Work State: Utah

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.

$32.10 - $50.57

Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.