Job Description

About Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.



Georgia Tech's Mission and Values

Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:

1. Students are our top priority.

2. We strive for excellence.

3. We thrive on diversity.

4. We celebrate collaboration.

5. We champion innovation.

6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.

7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.

8. We act ethically.

9. We are responsible stewards.



Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.



About the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology

The Woodruff School graduates high caliber mechanical engineers for a demanding profession. Mechanical engineers are the foundation of today's technological world. To do so, we provide enhanced facilities and laboratories to create the best learning environment, and we attract outstanding faculty and students. In this period of rapid technological change, the Woodruff School produces mechanical engineers who are vital to our future. We also host a vibrant nuclear and radiological engineering program, offering both undergraduate and graduate degrees.

With approximately 3,000 students,100 faculty members, and 70 staff members, we are one of the largest mechanical engineering programs in the country. We are consistently ranked as one of the top 5 mechanical engineering programs in the U.S. at both the graduate and undergraduate levels and continuously innovate to keep our school at the forefront of engineering education. Our size and resources allow us to offer a diversity of educational and research opportunities that enable us to produce highly sought after engineering professionals.



The Woodruff School graduates high caliber mechanical engineers for a demanding profession. Mechanical engineers are the foundation of today's technological world. To do so, we provide enhanced facilities and laboratories to create the best learning environment and we attract outstanding faculty and students. In this period of rapid technological change, the Woodruff School produces mechanical engineers who are vital to our future. With approximately 3,000 students,100 faculty members, and 70 staff members, we are one of the largest mechanical engineering programs in the country. We are consistently ranked as one of the top 10 mechanical engineering programs in the U.S. at both the graduate and undergraduate levels and continuously innovate to keep our school at the forefront of engineering education. Our size and resources allow us to offer educational and research opportunities that enable us to produce highly sought after engineering professionals.

Location
This position is located in Atlanta, Georgia at Georgia Institute of Technology.

Responsibilities
The selected candidate will:

Review designs from grant applicants on a wide range of PoC devices.
Write grants for new funding opportunities and scale manufacturing processes to 10,000s of units for a Point of Care Medical device.
Assure reliability of manufacturing processes and quantify manufacturing risks
Development and scale manufacturing systems for point-of-care medical devices
Write grant applications and manage expenditures for grants up to $1 million
Create design control documents under an ISO Quality System
Contract and procure external manufacturers for precision component parts
Perform testing of human blood for diagnoses
Write Standard Operation Procedures that are ISO 9001 compliant
Required Qualifications
Research Engineer II

A Masters degree in Engineering or related fields and three (3) years of relevant full-time experience after completion of that degree, or
A Masters degree in Engineering or related fields and five (5) years of relevant full-time experience after completion of Bachelors, or
A Doctoral degree
Preferred Qualifications
Over 2 years of product development experience for FDA-regulated medical devices.

Contact Information
You can find more information about the lab here: BioFluids and Medical Device Research Group KU LAB

Please reach out to Ms. Johnieda Merritt at: [email protected] for additional information.

This position is 100% supported by the sponsored funds.