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Quality Engineer

Rom Technologies Inc
2 hours ago
Full-time
On-site
Brookfield, CT
Healthcare

ROMTech is a medical technology company that has created and patented a revolutionary medical device and telemedical platform which delivers in-home rehabilitative care. Our disruptive technology has proven to yield faster recoveries and better outcomes with unmatched patient compliance. We began in orthopedics and have entered scale-up of our orthopedic business. We are now leveraging our core technology, infrastructure, and first mover position to enter cardiology, followed by other adjacent markets. Having created this new lane, we have a unique opportunity to serve as the global leader in the business, technology, and science of recovery, and to bring life-changing help to many millions of people.

Job Summary:

The Quality Engineer position reports directly to the Director of Quality. The Quality supports the execution of the design and development for new products and supports sustaining activities for existing legacy products.   

Duties & Responsibilities:  

  • Design and review project documentation, ensuring alignment with defined user needs, intended use, and indications for use, participating in product risk assessments, and working closely with Development to develop appropriate risk-based verification and validation testing requirements.  

  • Other responsibilities as assigned 

  • Support evaluation of complaints and adverse events for MDR (Medical Device Reporting) requirements, ensuring timely escalation and regulatory compliance.  

  • Review nonconforming material (NCRs) for design impact and ensure proper linkage to design changes, risk, and CAPA, and support alignment of DMR/DHR to ensure consistency between design and fielded devices.  

  • Ensure traceability of devices and configurations.  

  • Communicate regularly with Manufacturing and Test counterparts, and proactively engage in issue resolution across design, manufacturing, and field operations, ensuring alignment between designed, built, and fielded product configurations.  

  • Ability to participate in gathering of QA Engineering metrics gathering and compiling for higher level review, including design quality, field performance, and reliability metrics.  

  • Support analysis of product reliability and performance, including failure trends, repair data, and time-to-failure, and collaborate with engineering to drive design improvements.  

  • Audit, monitor, and witness test processes for compliance with requirements and keeping a watchful eye for risk opportunities, ensuring test coverage is complete and reflects intended use and real-world conditions.  

  • Participate in and maintain risk management activities, ensuring risks are identified, updated, and controlled based on design changes, testing results, and post-market data.  

  • Ensure all design changes, upgrades, and component substitutions are evaluated through formal design control processes, including impact assessment, verification/validation, and approval, and prevent uncontrolled changes during manufacturing or refurbishment activities.  

  • Support and ensure software and hardware design control, including requirements traceability, configuration management, and alignment between design outputs and released product configurations.  

  • Work with the Design, Development Engineering, Regulatory Affairs, Quality, and other cross-functional partners to clarify design intent, identify critical features, and assess feature risk to implement the quality/reliability objectives for each component using knowledge of past performance, use conditions, therapy performance and product function, user needs, and field feedback including refurbishment data, complaints, and performance trends.