Senior Design Engineer

If you're a design engineer at a corporate orthopaedic business who feels like one engineer of twenty on someone else's programme, this is worth a read.

I am supporting an orthopaedic manufacturer hiring a Senior Design Engineer to take technical ownership of the knee product line.

What you'll actually own:

Roughly 70 percent of your time goes into the knee product line. You'll look at the test reports and biomechanical evidence behind the product, judge whether the justifications still hold, and write the rationale that lets the team proceed. Where retesting is needed, you'll scope it and hand the project management to a junior engineer working alongside you.

The remainder is real design work. Redeveloping existing instruments, refining legacy product, contributing CAD into the wider pipeline. Twelve months out, the business plan to add a third bearing configuration to the product. You'll be p...