Founding Clinically Deployed Engineer

At Mosaic Intelligence Labs, we're building the intelligence layer that will enable more scalable endovascular intervention.

Our mission is to make surgery safer, more precise, and more accessible by combining multimodal sensing, robotics, and machine learning into systems that can perceive, navigate, and ultimately operate within the human vasculature. We believe the future of surgery will be incisionless, perception-first, and increasingly autonomous.

Our founders began this journey in operating rooms at Stanford, learning directly from physicians and their teams. But they were deeply dissatisfied with the status quo in medtech, and found the needs-driven approach to product development to be a necessary but not sufficient feature of building a great company. After spending several years away from the medtech industry, we pride ourselves on being extremely intentional about what we keep and what we shed of medtech’s traditional ways.

We're looking for our first Clinically Deployed Engineer to help us scale this approach.

About the Role

We're reimagining Clinical Development Engineering as a forward-deployed engineering function for surgical robotics.

Rather than sitting between clinicians and engineers, you'll work directly alongside both. You'll spend time in animal labs, cath suites, and engineering labs, developing a deep understanding of endovascular procedures, identifying opportunities to improve our technology, and helping build and validate our solutions.

One day, you might be working alongside a physician during a preclinical study, observing how our robotic system interacts with anatomy and identifying where a workflow breaks down. The next, you might be back in the engineering lab building a test fixture, refining an experimental protocol, analyzing procedural data, or helping debug the system before the next study.

Your job is to shorten the distance between clinical observation and engineering improvement.

This is a founding role, reporting directly with our CEO and working closely with our engineering team. We're looking for someone who is fundamentally an engineer, but who wants to develop an unusually deep understanding of clinical practice. Someone who enjoys building as much as learning, and who is excited to grow into a broader leadership role as our clinical development efforts scale.

What You'll Build

• Clinical evidence engine:

  • Clinical immersion: Develop deep fluency in endovascular anatomy, techniques, devices, and procedural workflows by working directly alongside interventional physicians in preclinical and, eventually, clinical environments.

  • Preclinical testing and validation: Plan and execute benchtop, phantom, and preclinical evaluations. Develop testing protocols, collect and analyze performance data, characterize system limitations, and contribute to verification and validation activities in collaboration with Engineering.

• Clinical relationships:

  • Physician partnerships: Build trusted relationships with clinical collaborators, develop a nuanced understanding of their needs, and help translate clinical expertise into the design of a fundamentally new surgical platform.

  • Procedural workflow development: Work with clinicians to design, refine, and validate workflows for robotic endovascular intervention, considering device handling, instrument exchange, imaging, physician interaction, safety, and procedural efficiency.

• Product development:

  • Clinical-to-engineering feedback loop: Observe how our technology performs in realistic procedural settings, identify failure modes and unmet needs, and translate these insights into actionable engineering inputs. Distinguish individual physician preferences from fundamental problems worth solving in the core product.

  • Rapid technical iteration: Collaborate hands-on with Engineering to troubleshoot problems, prototype improvements, develop fixtures and test methods, and validate solutions. Help ensure that lessons from one study translate into measurable improvements by the next.

  • Support with regulatory strategy

What We're Looking For

• Strong engineering foundations: A background in mechanical, biomedical, mechatronics, robotics, systems engineering, or a related discipline. You've designed, built, tested, or debugged real hardware, and can engage credibly with engineers on technical problems.

• Relevant experience: 5-10+ years of experience in engineering, medical device development, clinical engineering, or a related field. We're looking for someone with developed technical judgment and substantial room to grow.

• A builder's mentality: You're happiest when you can do something about the problems you discover. You're comfortable moving between clinical observation, engineering analysis, prototyping, and hands-on testing.

• Strong clinical intuition: You can get beneath what users say they want to understand what they actually need. You're capable of translating imperfect observations into clear hypotheses, engineering requirements, and experiments.

• Low ego, high ownership: You care more about getting the right solution into the product than about who came up with the idea. You build trust across disciplines, navigate disagreements constructively, and derive satisfaction from making the broader team more effective.

• Comfort with ambiguity: You're excited by an early-stage environment where the product, processes, and even your own role will evolve. You take initiative, learn quickly, and don't need established playbooks to be effective.

Ways to Stand Out

• Endovascular experience: Direct exposure to catheter-based interventions, endovascular devices, interventional cardiology, interventional radiology, or neurovascular procedures.

• Surgical or interventional robotics: Experience developing, evaluating, or clinically deploying robotic systems used in procedural medicine.

• Engineering-to-clinical career trajectory: You began your career in product design or engineering and subsequently moved closer to clinical development, applications, or procedural work.

• Medical device product development: Experience bringing complex medical devices through development, including design controls, risk management, verification and validation, and regulatory processes.

• Clinical translation: Experience supporting first-in-human studies, early clinical feasibility work, or clinical trials.

You don't need to check every box. We're particularly interested in people who combine strong engineering judgment with clinical curiosity and a willingness to build.

About Our Team

We're a small, technically deep team building a new category of intelligent surgical systems. Our work brings together robotics, medical imaging, mechanical engineering, machine learning, and clinical medicine. We believe in testing on physical systems early, learn directly from clinical collaborators, and iterate quickly.

As our first Clinically Deployed Engineer, you'll have an unusual opportunity to shape not only our product, but also how clinical development works at Mosaic. You'll be an individual contributor from day one, working alongside our founders, physicians, and engineers, with the opportunity to help build and eventually lead a larger clinical engineering function.

We're looking for someone who wants to be as comfortable in the cath lab as they are at the engineering bench and who measures success by how much better the product becomes because they were there.