R&D Senior Fellow Ultrasound Engineer

R&D Senior Fellow Ultrasound Engineer

At Boston Scientific, we'll give you the opportunity to harness all that's within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information, and training, we'll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you'll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.

Boston Scientific is currently looking for an R&D Senior Fellow Ultrasound Engineer. This person will provide an enterprise-level technical leadership across rotational intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and therapeutic intravascular ultrasound (RDN and adjacent therapies). Define and deliver next-generation catheter-based transducers, rotational drive systems, front-end electronics, beamforming, and image/signal-processing architectures that materially advance clinical outcomes and sustain product leadership in minimally invasive imaging and therapeutic ultrasound.

This role follows a hybrid work model, requiring employees to be in our Maple Grove, MN office at least three days per week.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Establish the multi-year ultrasound technology roadmap spanning rotational IVUS catheters and therapeutic intravascular ultrasound.
• Define reference architecture covering catheters, consoles, and signal processing pipelines; lead design reviews and serve as final technical authority for critical designs.
• Lead design and trade-studies for wideband, high-frequency IVUS transducers (40–60+ MHz) integrated with rotational drive and pullback systems.
• Guide material selections (PZT/PMN-PT/CMUT), acoustic matching, stack-ups, cabling, and packaging strategies for reliable high-speed rotation in vascular environments and therapeutic applications.
• Specify and optimize transmit beam patterns, TGC/AGC, analog front end, digitization, and image reconstruction pipelines under rotational acquisition constraints.
• Define and validate energy delivery profiles for renal denervation and related intravascular therapies.
• Translate unmet clinical and marketing needs into verifiable system requirements.
• Mentor and technically guide teams in transducer design, EE, FW/SW, systems, and image science.
• Generate high-value intellectual property in catheter-based imaging and therapeutic ultrasound.

Required qualifications:

• PhD or MS or BS in Electrical, Mechanical, or Biomedical Engineering with an ultrasound focus; 12+ years in medical ultrasound product development.
• Deep expertise in at least two of: transducer design & catheter integration (rotational IVUS, high-freq arrays); real-time beamforming & signal chain optimization; image formation & reconstruction for intravascular imaging; ultrasound-based therapy delivery & closed-loop control.
• Proven enterprise-level technology leadership (architect or fellow) shaping roadmaps across multiple programs.
• Hands-on with acoustic modeling (k-Wave, Field II, PZFlex, ANSYS), transducer fabrication and testing (pulse-echo, impedance, acoustic power), and catheter-level packaging.
• Strong SW/FPGA familiarity for imaging pipelines (C/C++/CUDA/Verilog), algorithm prototyping (Python/MATLAB), and real-time constraints on embedded SoCs/MCUs.
• Mastery of design controls and compliance: IEC 60601 (safety), IEC 60601-1-2 (EMC), IEC 60601-2-62 (therapeutic ultrasound), IEC 62304 (SW), ISO 14971 (risk), biocompatibility & sterilization (catheters), ultrasound indices (MI/TI).

Preferred qualifications:

• Rotational IVUS catheter experience (60 MHz-class wideband transducers, drive motor & pullback systems, rotational fidelity, and image construction).
• Expertise in quantitative/elasticity/ARFI methods, adaptive beamforming, and AI-assisted image reconstruction or artifact suppression.
• Supplier development experience for micro-coax/flex, micro-assembly, and scalable catheter manufacturing (DOE and process validation).
• Therapeutic ultrasound experience (renal denervation, HIFU, or related), including dosimetry modeling, acoustic coupling, and safety/closed-loop control systems.