Job Specifications
Company Overview:
RBL LLC is a Houston-based venture creation studio committed to the rapid development of clinically meaningful biotech companies. RBL LLC’s team of industry-experienced company builders provides comprehensive services to startups, including lab and office space, financial, administrative, and business development support, as well as clinical trial design, implementation, talent acquisition, and capital sourcing to help early-stage companies build a strong foundation for clinical success. RBL LLC functions as a start-up company where all team members are willing to work collaboratively and across disciplines when needed to ensure the success of the organization.
Job Summary:
We are seeking a full-time hybrid technical and product leader to own system-level architecture, integration, and product definition for a complex, regulated medical product platform. This role combines systems engineering rigor with product management ownership, ensuring that clinical, user, technical, and business requirements are coherently translated into an executable, scalable product. This is a contract position with a 1-2 year commitment.
Key Responsibilities:
Own product definition including target product profile, user needs, and product/system requirements
Define and evolve end-to-end system architecture across device, electronics, software, biologics, and manufacturing
Lead system-level integration, design reviews, and technical decision-making
Integrate biologics or combination product components into the overall system design
Drive system-level risk management and verification strategy
Act as the cross-functional technical and product integrator
Qualifications:
PhD in Bio(medical), engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical engineering or related disciplines OR 5+ years in relevant industry role
Familiarity with medical device hardware, including electronics, tissue contacting materials and integration
Expertise in embedded systems for bioelectronic actuation, control and communications
Firmware and software experience
Mechanical design and modeling
Strong organizational skills, with an emphasis on documentation, quality control and protocol development
Communication skills
Proven track record managing a small team
Preferred Skills:
Mechanical design and modeling
Combination product or biologics exposure
Manufacturing scale-up or tech transfer experience
Experience translating medical device
Experience with preclinical development with an emphasis on rodent implants
Leveling
This role may be filled at Senior Principal or Director level depending on experience and scope.
About the Company
RBL LLC is a biotech venture creation studio focused on providing life sciences entrepreneurs with seed and Series A financing to accelerate company formation in Texas. Based in the heart of Helix Park with new, state-of-the-art facilities, RBL LLC is the first accelerator of its kind in Texas and strives to grow the continuously evolving life sciences hub in Houston.
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