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Senior Research Engineer, Surgery & Electrodes

The Opportunity

Cochlear has an opportunity for a Senior Research Engineer, Surgery & Electrodes based in our Macquarie Park site in Sydney. In this role, the successful Senior Research Engineer, Surgery & Electrodes will develop and deliver innovative solutions, new technologies building blocks, proof of concepts and feasibility.

Responsibilities include:

• Scoping, planning and delivering work packages to support the Advanced Innovation product goals and R&D product vision and roadmap
• Generating novel and valuable ideas in the Surgery and Electrodes space, submitting Invention Disclosures and supporting the patenting process
• Leading high-quality designs or research activities within the technical domain and influencing designs across neighbouring domains.
• Proactively suggesting opportunities for technical improvements within Cochlear's products, platforms, or research areas and drive towards implementation
• Proactively assessing and mitigating product risk (e.g. impact on customer) and ensuring solutions are found
• Making technical decisions in the face of ambiguity to move a project forward
• Proactively monitoring the technology landscape to be aware of external innovations
• Incorporating industry best practice and learnings from previous projects and products
• May be required to provide technical support on; Product Development projects, Process Engineering projects, Manufacturing Support projects, Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPAs), Non-Conformance Reports (NCRs) and issue investigations
• Conducting hands-on prototyping and testing to iteratively develop new designs

What makes this opportunity unique?

This will support Cochlear's long term market leadership position in electrodes and surgical technologies, both for growing the market size and market share, recognizing that the electrode and surgical technologies (e.g. surgical robots, smart microscopes, navigation systems etc) are critical components that have the potential to make a step change in benefit to customers.

About You. As we grow our operations, we are looking for people who share our passion for delivering quality hearing solutions to our customers. To add value to Cochlear in this role, you'll be able to demonstrate the following skills and experience:

Essential

• Tertiary qualifications in an applicable discipline (e.g. Biomedical, Mechanical, Mechatronic Engineering)
• 3+ years' experience performing project technical work
• Demonstrated capability in participation in cross-functional teams executing technically complex new product projects.
• Pragmatic problem solver of difficult problems and producer of solutions outside standard procedures.
• Demonstrated capability with CAD tools, drawings & mechanical tolerances
• Quality minded, focused on details
• Strong skills in cross-functional thinking
• Excellent oral and written communication skills