Clinical Engineer (Hybrid)

Your opportunity

By joining the Kardium team, you can help make a difference in the lives of millions around the world. We have developed a ground-breaking medical device for the diagnosis and treatment of the most common heart rhythm disorder, atrial fibrillation – which can cause stroke, heart failure, and other heart-related complications.

Kardium’s mission is to deliver the best treatment for atrial fibrillation. To achieve this, we have developed The Globe® Pulsed Field System – we have a fantastic technical team that has developed a product with strong, unique, and customer-valued differentiators versus other solutions on the market. We have built connections with key opinion leaders who are already using the Globe System and are helping to tell our story.

We have now completed our pivotal clinical study and our focus is on regulatory approvals and commercial launch. This is an exciting and significant milestone in our journey to bring this ground-breaking technology to patients.

We are seeking a Clinical Engineer to drive product design and use improvements by facilitating communication between technical teams at Kardium and clinical and pre-clinical users of the product, and leading technical investigations with input from across technical disciplines to identify, develop, and support the roll-out of product improvements.

Please note, this opportunity is a hybrid work arrangement, located in Burnaby, BC.

Meaningful work you will be a part of

As a Clinical Engineer, you will be an integral part of our multidisciplinary engineering team, working across the clinical, electrical, software, biomedical research, mechanical, usability, and risk management domains. Your daily activities will center around supporting clinical activities and becoming a system-level domain expert who contributes to design and process development and leads clinical system investigations. You will get to attend local and remote sites as part of this role. Your responsibilities will be to:

• Support and observe clinical use:
• Work with Kardium Field Clinical Specialists, providing oversight and input to ensure consistent, safe, and effective use of the product.
• Collect feedback and observations from clinical use, ensure appropriate follow-up, and close the loop by communicating product changes and improvements back to clinical users of the product.
• Provide direct support to clinical cases as a Clinical Specialist, both as a Software operator during procedures and supporting physician use of Hardware.
• Up to 20% travel to trial sites – locally, North America and Europe.
• Support and participate in pre-clinical use:
• Act as an interventionalist to support the Kardium Research team on execution of pre-clinical studies.
• Collect hands-on feedback and observations from pre-clinical use and provide input on new features and product changes.
• Evaluate whether observations in pre-clinical use may impact clinical use and lead to appropriate follow-up.
• Deliver training to Field Clinical Specialists:
• With full Clinical Specialist training, you will be qualified to deliver training to Field Clinical Specialists.
• Review and contribute to training documentation.
• Conduct clinical and pre-clinical investigations:
• Using your product knowledge and field experience, determine the scope and direction of new investigations that may lead to product improvements.
• Design and implement analysis tools and provide input to Product Management, Systems, Mapping, and Software teams on areas for improvement and new feature development.
• Provide clinical engineering support across Kardium:
• Advise the Clinical Operations, Product Training, and other teams on best-practice clinical usage of the Globe system.

What you bring to the team

Our Kardium team is smart, creative, and passionate about developing cutting-edge medical devices to help improve people’s lives. We work in a collaborative environment based on trust and respect. We understand that only by working together can we solve what was thought unsolvable.

You will be successful in this role because you possess these attributes:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or life-science.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and technical documentation skills.
• Excellent troubleshooting and debugging skills, even under time/pressure constraints.
• Broad experience with Software, Electrical, and Mechanical systems design.
• Strong background and aptitude with hands-on device usage, specifically handling percutaneous catheters and standard interventional cardiology and electrophysiology tools and equipment.
• Experience with MATLAB.
• Strong analytical and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work as part of a team and independently.
• Ability to travel to the US and Europe.

Compensation

Kardium has listed the total cash compensation range (base salary + 5% RRSP contribution) that we expect to pay applicants for this role, as of the time of this posting. Pay offered will be determined based on numerous relevant business and candidate factors including, for example, education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, and business or organizational needs. For candidates with more or less experience than listed above, the pay range will be adjusted.

As a permanent employee, you will also participate in Kardium’s stock option plan.

• $70,000 - $95,000 (CAD Annually)

Your Benefits & Well-being

Total cash – the total cash we’ve listed for this position includes a base salary, plus a contribution to a Registered Retirement Savings plans (RRSP) to help support your financial goals.

Comprehensive medical & dental coverage – for all permanent employees – effective as of Day 1, with no waiting period.

Work-day flexibility – additionally, we provide 3 personal days per year.

Support – for you (and your dependents) overall well-being.

Career progression and learning support.

Professional membership support.

 Family building – we provide top up for both maternity leave & adoptive leave. Employees can also enroll in benefit coverage for fertility drug treatment.

Life at Kardium

What makes us a great place to work?

1. Our Purpose
2. Our People
3. Our Culture

At Kardium, we embrace diversity of background, experience, and perspective and we’re committed to inclusion and equity at every level. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates who represent the full diversity of all communities.

We collaborate with Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), as volunteer-led groups who share a common dimension of diversity and come together to provide support, education, and other opportunities across Kardium. Examples of our ERGs include Women ERG, Pride ERG, Race Ethnicity & Cultural Heritage (REACH) ERG, Truth & Reconciliation ERG, Persian Community ERG, Chinese ERG, Barangay Kardium (Filipino) ERG, Brazilian ERG and Irish ERG.

As part of your application, we encourage you to note if you require an accommodation for the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials, accessible meeting rooms or other accommodations). There will be an optional section in the application form where you can provide this information to the recruitment team.

And our employees think we are great too – check out Glassdoor to learn more!