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Research and Development Director

United Kingdom, Warwick · Job Posted December 11, 2025
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As R&D Director, you’ll take the lead on continuing product development for our ground breaking dialysis platform, driving reliability, cost optimisation and feature innovation. You’ll also be responsible for leading and growing a high performing technical team, ensuring delivery of our engineering roadmap in line with business strategy. Quanta Dialysis Technologies is on a mission to make dialysis accessible to every patient in every setting with its innovative QDS system. With its compact size, intuitive design, and proven performance, QDS is transforming care delivery and clinical outcomes across the dialysis landscape.

Job Responsibility

  • Take the lead on continuing product development for our ground breaking dialysis platform, driving reliability, cost optimisation and feature innovation
  • Responsible for leading and growing a high performing technical team, ensuring delivery of our engineering roadmap in line with business strategy

Requirements

  • Proven leadership experience in a senior engineering role at Director level within a medical device product development environment
  • A track record of delivering complex, multi-disciplinary products involving software, electronics, mechanical systems and fluidics including management of teams in these areas
  • Experience in owning design control, technical execution, and team delivery
  • Ensures on-time, on-budget delivery of designs that are robust, testable, manufacturable
  • Builds engineering processes, tools, documentation, and governance (e.g. D-FMEA, CAD, ECO, V&V traceability)
  • Strong focus on people development, hiring, training, and cross-functional leadership

Nice to have

Experience in dialysis or renal care devices, start-up/scale-up environments, and global regulatory knowledge (e.g. FDA, MDR)

What we offer

  • Bonus
  • Benefits

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