Total 21 Science / R&D / Research job vacancies in lawrence kansas

INVENT. IMPMROVE. INSPIRE.
NxStage Medical, a Fresenius company is not your typical medical products company. We are a close-knit team of talented professionals driven by a shared commitment: to lead a movement to dramatically improve renal care with innovative yet simple therapeutic solutions that benefit patients, caregivers, and society. We pursue this goal through a passionate commitment to Innovate, Educate, and Advocate for the breakthroughs that are redefining renal care. Additionally, NxStage works in community with its customers, patients, industry partners, and government leaders and agencies to realize the vision of better, simpler, more accessible renal care.

Position Summary:

 The Co-ops support product or process development activities related to the development, design, research and manufacturing of NxStage Medical's new and existing suit of products. As part of the R&D team, this involves participating in testing, design, building samples, and other activities as needed by the project team. Co-ops in this position will have the opportunity to work more independently and take on additional responsibilities with their teams. Co-ops may be part of the system engineering, hardware mechanical engineering, or disposables engineering team.

Core Responsibilities:

• Participate in design or development of new medical equipment or disposables and/or upgrades to existing products

• Assist with major projects, or phases of projects, to resolve advanced and complex technical problems

• Ensure all design activities conform to design controls; and that all analysis, design and testing activities are properly documented

• Participate in activities to ensure design and process shortcomings are identified and appropriately addressed

• Assist the product development team in the adoption and use of best practices and design methodologies

• Debug and develop reliability improvements for existing products and products under development.

• Provide technical support for product engineering, design development, integration, test and evaluation

• Investigate the feasibility of new projects, systems or approaches

• Learn about and work in ways that are compliant with internal and external standards, good manufacturing practices, and quality system regulations

 Requirements:

• Candidate for BS or MS in Mechanical, Industrial, Plastics, Electrical, or Biomedical Engineering

• Intermediate knowledge of CAD and Technical Drawing creation

• Basic understanding of product and process development of medical devices or similar product experience is desired

• Prior relevant work experience is preferred, such as working in an FDA, defense industry or ISO regulated environment

• Understanding of aspects of system design, electronics, mechanical and software integration or manufacturing processes is beneficial

• Prior experience designing for rapid prototyping as well as traditional manufacturing techniques desired

• Has a constructive approach to teamwork and collaboration

• Demonstrated interest in medical device or pharmaceutical industries

• Excellent technical communication skills and attention to detail, including creating and editing technical procedures, protocols, and reports

• Commitment to performing all tasks with quality and integrity

EO/AA Employer: Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity

INVENT. IMPMROVE. INSPIRE.
NxStage Medical, a Fresenius company is not your typical medical products company. We are a close-knit team of talented professionals driven by a shared commitment: to lead a movement to dramatically improve renal care with innovative yet simple therapeutic solutions that benefit patients, caregivers, and society. We pursue this goal through a passionate commitment to Innovate, Educate, and Advocate for the breakthroughs that are redefining renal care. Additionally, NxStage works in community with its customers, patients, industry partners, and government leaders and agencies to realize the vision of better, simpler, more accessible renal care.

Position Summary:

 The Co-ops support product or process development activities related to the development, design, research and manufacturing of NxStage Medical's new and existing suit of products. As part of the R&D team, this involves participating in testing, design, building samples, and other activities as needed by the project team. Co-ops in this position will have the opportunity to work more independently and take on additional responsibilities with their teams. Co-ops may be part of the system engineering, hardware mechanical engineering, or disposables engineering team.

Core Responsibilities:

• Participate in design or development of new medical equipment or disposables and/or upgrades to existing products

• Assist with major projects, or phases of projects, to resolve advanced and complex technical problems

• Ensure all design activities conform to design controls; and that all analysis, design and testing activities are properly documented

• Participate in activities to ensure design and process shortcomings are identified and appropriately addressed

• Assist the product development team in the adoption and use of best practices and design methodologies

• Debug and develop reliability improvements for existing products and products under development.

• Provide technical support for product engineering, design development, integration, test and evaluation

• Investigate the feasibility of new projects, systems or approaches

• Learn about and work in ways that are compliant with internal and external standards, good manufacturing practices, and quality system regulations

 Requirements:

• Candidate for BS or MS in Mechanical, Industrial, Plastics, Electrical, or Biomedical Engineering

• Intermediate knowledge of CAD and Technical Drawing creation

• Basic understanding of product and process development of medical devices or similar product experience is desired

• Prior relevant work experience is preferred, such as working in an FDA, defense industry or ISO regulated environment

• Understanding of aspects of system design, electronics, mechanical and software integration or manufacturing processes is beneficial

• Prior experience designing for rapid prototyping as well as traditional manufacturing techniques desired

• Has a constructive approach to teamwork and collaboration

• Demonstrated interest in medical device or pharmaceutical industries

• Excellent technical communication skills and attention to detail, including creating and editing technical procedures, protocols, and reports

• Commitment to performing all tasks with quality and integrity

EO/AA Employer: Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity

PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORKING CONDITIONS:

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

EDUCATION:

• Actively pursuing a college degree in similar major

EXPERIENCE AND REQUIRED SKILLS:

• Candidate for BS or MS in Electrical, or Computer Engineering
• Entry level understanding of product and process development of medical devices is preferred
• Basic knowledge of schematic capture and printed circuit board software tools
• Familiarity with analog, digital and microprocessor circuitry
• Beginning understanding of system design, electronics, mechanical and software integration and manufacturing processes
• Has a constructive approach teamwork and collaboration
• Demonstrated interest in medical device or pharmaceutical industries
• Excellent technical communication skills and attention to detail, including creating and editing technical procedures, protocols, and reports
• Commitment to performing all tasks with quality and integrity 

EO/AA Employer: Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity

Fresenius Medical Care North America maintains a drug-free workplace in accordance with applicable federal and state laws.

INVENT. IMPMROVE. INSPIRE.
NxStage Medical, a Fresenius company is not your typical medical products company. We are a close-knit team of talented professionals driven by a shared commitment: to lead a movement to dramatically improve renal care with innovative yet simple therapeutic solutions that benefit patients, caregivers, and society. We pursue this goal through a passionate commitment to Innovate, Educate, and Advocate for the breakthroughs that are redefining renal care. Additionally, NxStage works in community with its customers, patients, industry partners, and government leaders and agencies to realize the vision of better, simpler, more accessible renal care.

Position Summary:

 The Co-ops support product or process development activities related to the development, design, research and manufacturing of NxStage Medical's new and existing suit of products. As part of the R&D team, this involves participating in testing, design, building samples, and other activities as needed by the project team. Co-ops in this position will have the opportunity to work more independently and take on additional responsibilities with their teams. Co-ops may be part of the system engineering, hardware mechanical engineering, or disposables engineering team.

Core Responsibilities:

• Participate in design or development of new medical equipment or disposables and/or upgrades to existing products

• Assist with major projects, or phases of projects, to resolve advanced and complex technical problems

• Ensure all design activities conform to design controls; and that all analysis, design and testing activities are properly documented

• Participate in activities to ensure design and process shortcomings are identified and appropriately addressed

• Assist the product development team in the adoption and use of best practices and design methodologies

• Debug and develop reliability improvements for existing products and products under development.

• Provide technical support for product engineering, design development, integration, test and evaluation

• Investigate the feasibility of new projects, systems or approaches

• Learn about and work in ways that are compliant with internal and external standards, good manufacturing practices, and quality system regulations

 Requirements:

• Candidate for BS or MS in Mechanical, Industrial, Plastics, Electrical, or Biomedical Engineering

• Intermediate knowledge of CAD and Technical Drawing creation

• Basic understanding of product and process development of medical devices or similar product experience is desired

• Prior relevant work experience is preferred, such as working in an FDA, defense industry or ISO regulated environment

• Understanding of aspects of system design, electronics, mechanical and software integration or manufacturing processes is beneficial

• Prior experience designing for rapid prototyping as well as traditional manufacturing techniques desired

• Has a constructive approach to teamwork and collaboration

• Demonstrated interest in medical device or pharmaceutical industries

• Excellent technical communication skills and attention to detail, including creating and editing technical procedures, protocols, and reports

• Commitment to performing all tasks with quality and integrity

EO/AA Employer: Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity

INVENT. IMPMROVE. INSPIRE.
NxStage Medical, a Fresenius company is not your typical medical products company. We are a close-knit team of talented professionals driven by a shared commitment: to lead a movement to dramatically improve renal care with innovative yet simple therapeutic solutions that benefit patients, caregivers, and society. We pursue this goal through a passionate commitment to Innovate, Educate, and Advocate for the breakthroughs that are redefining renal care. Additionally, NxStage works in community with its customers, patients, industry partners, and government leaders and agencies to realize the vision of better, simpler, more accessible renal care.

Position Summary:

 The Co-ops support product or process development activities related to the development, design, research and manufacturing of NxStage Medical's new and existing suit of products. As part of the R&D team, this involves participating in testing, design, building samples, and other activities as needed by the project team. Co-ops in this position will have the opportunity to work more independently and take on additional responsibilities with their teams. Co-ops may be part of the system engineering, hardware mechanical engineering, or disposables engineering team.

Core Responsibilities:

• Participate in design or development of new medical equipment or disposables and/or upgrades to existing products

• Assist with major projects, or phases of projects, to resolve advanced and complex technical problems

• Ensure all design activities conform to design controls; and that all analysis, design and testing activities are properly documented

• Participate in activities to ensure design and process shortcomings are identified and appropriately addressed

• Assist the product development team in the adoption and use of best practices and design methodologies

• Debug and develop reliability improvements for existing products and products under development.

• Provide technical support for product engineering, design development, integration, test and evaluation

• Investigate the feasibility of new projects, systems or approaches

• Learn about and work in ways that are compliant with internal and external standards, good manufacturing practices, and quality system regulations

 Requirements:

• Candidate for BS or MS in Mechanical, Industrial, Plastics, Electrical, or Biomedical Engineering

• Intermediate knowledge of CAD and Technical Drawing creation

• Basic understanding of product and process development of medical devices or similar product experience is desired

• Prior relevant work experience is preferred, such as working in an FDA, defense industry or ISO regulated environment

• Understanding of aspects of system design, electronics, mechanical and software integration or manufacturing processes is beneficial

• Prior experience designing for rapid prototyping as well as traditional manufacturing techniques desired

• Has a constructive approach to teamwork and collaboration

• Demonstrated interest in medical device or pharmaceutical industries

• Excellent technical communication skills and attention to detail, including creating and editing technical procedures, protocols, and reports

• Commitment to performing all tasks with quality and integrity

EO/AA Employer: Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity

INVENT. IMPROVE. INSPIRE.
NxStage Medical is not your typical medical products company. We are a close-knit team of talented professionals driven by a shared commitment: to lead a movement to dramatically improve renal care with innovative yet simple therapeutic solutions that benefit patients, caregivers, and society. We pursue this goal through a passionate commitment to Innovate, Educate and Advocate for the breakthroughs that are redefining renal care. Additionally, NxStage works in community with its customers, patients, industry partners, and government leaders and agencies to realize the vision of better, simpler, more accessible renal care. 

Position Summary:
 

The co-op supports product or process development activities related to the development, design, research and manufacturing of NxStage Medical's new and existing products. As part of the R&D team, this involves participating in research, testing, documenting activities, building samples, and other activities as needed by the project team. Co-ops will support the Human Factors and Usability engineering team.

Core Responsibilities:

• Participate in the development of new medical equipment or disposables and/or upgrades to existing products.
• Assist with major projects, or phases of projects, to resolve advanced and complex technical problems
• Support Human Factors and Usability Engineering to develop and write Human-Systems Interaction technical documentation, make revisions to existing documentation, and provide input to technical analyses, as assigned.
• Create comprehensive profiles on current devices in the market (includes creation of task analyses and video walkthroughs)
• Assist with heuristic reviews of current user interfaces (hardware, disposables and displays)
• Leverage perception, cognition and action to evaluate and document current user interfaces
• Prepare, organize, and document observations from user evaluations, as required.
• Create and organize data via spreadsheet management tools
• Ensure all design activities conform to design controls; and that all analysis, design and testing activities are properly documented.
• Participate in activities to ensure design and process shortcomings are identified and appropriately addressed.
• Assist the product development team in the adoption and use of best practices and design methodologies.
• Provide technical support for product engineering, design development, integration, test and evaluation.
• Investigate the feasibility of new projects, systems or approaches.
• Learn about and work in ways that are compliant with internal and external standards, good manufacturing practices, and quality system regulations.

Requirements:

• Candidate for BS or MS in Industrial, Systems, Biomedical, Human Factors/Usability, System Safety Engineering, or Human-Centered Design and Engineering, Kinesiology/Biomechanics, or Engineering Psychology.
• At minimum, completed Sophomore year of Bachelors degree in relevant discipline.
• Entry level understanding of product and process development of medical devices is preferred.
• Beginning understanding of system design, electronics, mechanical and software integration and manufacturing processes.
• Excellent technical communication skills and attention to detail, including creating and editing technical research, analyses, protocols, and reports.
• Excellent attention to detail and organization skills, including creating databases and mining large sources of data
• Basic understanding of task analyses, usability testing and iterative development process is a plus.
• Basic knowledge of rapid prototyping process; CAD experience is a plus.
• Has a constructive approach teamwork and collaboration.
• Demonstrated interest in medical device or pharmaceutical industries.
• Commitment to performing all tasks with quality and integrity 

INVENT. IMPMROVE. INSPIRE.
NxStage Medical, a Fresenius company is not your typical medical products company. We are a close-knit team of talented professionals driven by a shared commitment: to lead a movement to dramatically improve renal care with innovative yet simple therapeutic solutions that benefit patients, caregivers, and society. We pursue this goal through a passionate commitment to Innovate, Educate, and Advocate for the breakthroughs that are redefining renal care. Additionally, NxStage works in community with its customers, patients, industry partners, and government leaders and agencies to realize the vision of better, simpler, more accessible renal care.

Position Summary:

 The Co-ops support product or process development activities related to the development, design, research and manufacturing of NxStage Medical's new and existing suit of products. As part of the R&D team, this involves participating in testing, design, building samples, and other activities as needed by the project team. Co-ops in this position will have the opportunity to work more independently and take on additional responsibilities with their teams. Co-ops may be part of the system engineering, hardware mechanical engineering, or disposables engineering team.

Core Responsibilities:

• Participate in design or development of new medical equipment or disposables and/or upgrades to existing products

• Assist with major projects, or phases of projects, to resolve advanced and complex technical problems

• Ensure all design activities conform to design controls; and that all analysis, design and testing activities are properly documented

• Participate in activities to ensure design and process shortcomings are identified and appropriately addressed

• Assist the product development team in the adoption and use of best practices and design methodologies

• Debug and develop reliability improvements for existing products and products under development.

• Provide technical support for product engineering, design development, integration, test and evaluation

• Investigate the feasibility of new projects, systems or approaches

• Learn about and work in ways that are compliant with internal and external standards, good manufacturing practices, and quality system regulations

 Requirements:

• Candidate for BS or MS in Mechanical, Industrial, Plastics, Electrical, or Biomedical Engineering

• Intermediate knowledge of CAD and Technical Drawing creation

• Basic understanding of product and process development of medical devices or similar product experience is desired

• Prior relevant work experience is preferred, such as working in an FDA, defense industry or ISO regulated environment

• Understanding of aspects of system design, electronics, mechanical and software integration or manufacturing processes is beneficial

• Prior experience designing for rapid prototyping as well as traditional manufacturing techniques desired

• Has a constructive approach to teamwork and collaboration

• Demonstrated interest in medical device or pharmaceutical industries

• Excellent technical communication skills and attention to detail, including creating and editing technical procedures, protocols, and reports

• Commitment to performing all tasks with quality and integrity

EO/AA Employer: Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity

PURPOSE AND SCOPE:

As a software intern with NxStage, a Fresenius Medical Care company, a student will apply classroom-based knowledge to workplace experience and will benefit from learning experiences in their major area of study. The intern supports product or process development activities related to NxStage’s software-based medical device products and supporting software.  The candidate will gain experience with software programming, embedded systems, GUI systems, and medical device standards ISO 13485 Quality Management System and IEC 62304 Software Life Cycle Process.

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES:

• Participate in the design or development of new medical equipment and/or upgrades to existing products
• Assist with major projects, or phases of projects, to resolve advanced and complex technical problems
• Ensure all design activities conform to design controls; and that all analysis, design and testing activities are properly documented
• Participate in activities to ensure design and process shortcomings are identified and appropriately addressed
• Assist the product development team in the adoption and use of best practices and design methodologies
• Debug and develop reliability improvements for existing products and products under development
• Provide technical support for product engineering, design development, integration, test and evaluation
• Investigate the feasibility of new projects, systems or approaches.
• Learn about and work in ways that are compliant with internal and external standards, good manufacturing practices, and quality system regulations

PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORKING CONDITIONS:

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

EDUCATION:

• Actively pursuing a college or a master’s degree in computer, electrical, biomedical engineering, computer science or similar.

EXPERIENCE AND REQUIRED SKILLS:

• Candidate for BS/BE or MS/ME in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related.
• Programming experience in C, C++ and/or Python preferred.
• Knowledge of embedded programming, components like sensors, RTOS preferred.
• Demonstrated interest in medical device or pharmaceutical industries
• Technical knowledge in software development methodologies, design, and implementation.
• Beginning analytical and design skills.
• Basic knowledge of project lifecycles, software development environments, and source control techniques.
• Excellent technical communication skills and attention to detail, including creating and editing technical procedures, protocols, and reports
• Commitment to performing all tasks with quality and integrity 

EO/AA Employer: Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity

Fresenius Medical Care North America maintains a drug-free workplace in accordance with applicable federal and state laws.