Java engineer Empleos en Westminster co

Description:

ABOUT US

Cerapedics is a global, commercial-stage orthopedics company that is dedicated to redefining the path to bone repair by healing bones faster and at higher rates, so all patients can get back to living their fullest lives. Bone grafts, including Cerapedics’ products, are used in over four million annual spine, orthopedics, trauma, and interventional procedures worldwide. Cerapedics has two drug-device products approved by the FDA powered by Cerapedics’ proprietary P-15 Osteogenic Cell Binding Peptide: PearlMatrix™ Bone Graft for all major lumbar interbody surgical approaches and i-FACTOR® Bone Graft for single-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) in the cervical spine. Cerapedics is headquartered in Westminster, Colorado.

OVERVIEW

Healing lives through bone repair – this mission is what inspires us every day. If that is inspiring to you as well, consider joining us as a Development Engineer in our Westminster office.

In this role, you will contribute to our mission through developing innovative biomaterial, coating, and product technologies that support the advancement of bone graft solutions and improve patient outcomes. As a Development Engineer working on the Research and Development team, you will be empowered through meaningful work and career development to design and evaluate new products, develop novel materials and processes, create prototypes for field testing, optimize products for manufacturing, and support the successful transfer of new technologies into production. A typical day will include conducting laboratory research and testing, analyzing materials and product performance, designing prototypes, collaborating with Commercial and cross-functional teams on new product concepts, documenting results, and supporting scale-up and technology transfer activities.

POSITION OBJECTIVES:

• Develop unique methods to process ceramic materials to generate a portfolio of potential materials with significant diversity in characteristics and surface properties.
• Acquire and analyze a diverse portfolio of soft tissue materials to identify unique properties to serve as platform for potential new products.
• Enhance and develop coating processes including coating of peptides.
• In conjunction with Commercial, configure the hard and soft components into a portfolio of product configurations with a large variety of products characteristics conducive to surgical products associated with bone graft.
• Develop unique test methods to demonstrate the required product properties.
• Produce a series of prototype product configurations for field testing.
• Optimize processing (design for manufacturing) for new products.
• Represent R&D in all stage-gate decision on new product pathways.
• Develop Quality release testing for new products.
• Perform as SME for technology transfer and scale-up activities.
• Design, execute, and evaluate process trials and performance testing; document results and standardize successful improvements.
• Ability to document work in compliance with standard good laboratory practices.
• Must be able to work independently, planning a reasonable course of action that incorporates published information and practices into the development program.
• Ability to communicate verbally sufficiently well to be able to interact with other team members and outside contract research organizations.

Requirements:

POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

• Experience with ceramics-based biomaterials.
• Experience with protein coating
• Experience with freeze-drying instrumentation and applications.
• Experience with analytical instrumentation.
• Experience with bone graft materials a plus.
• Solid problem-solving skills.
• Solid analytical knowledge of biomaterials.
• Strong decision-making skills.
• Excellent communication skills – both written and oral.
• Ability to work independently, plan, and prioritize.

EDUCATION AND PREFERRED TRAINING REQUIREMENTS:

• BS in Biomedical or Materials Science Engineering with 3-5 years experience
• Masters in Biomedical or Materials Science Engineering with 1-3 years experience

WORK CONDITION/PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodation may be made when requested by the employee to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• This position requires the incumbent to regularly utilize written and verbal communication skills, including active listening and speaking clearly and concisely.
• This position requires the incumbent to experience periods of prolonged sitting and to occasionally stand, walk, carry items, climb, reach, and lift up to 20 lbs.
• This position requires the incumbent to operate office equipment such as telephones, computers, fax machines, copiers, and to grasp objects utilizing manual dexterity including hand/finger coordination.

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS: N/A

BENEFITS/COMPENSATION (including, but not limited to):

• Medical and dental insurance, group life insurance, 401k matching, long term disability, potential target bonus, paid time off.

SALARY RANGE: $95,000.00 - $136,000.00

Base Salary: Annually

Target Annual Bonus: 12%

This position will be posted through 11/14/2026

EEO STATEMENT:

Cerapedics is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

Compensation details: 95000-136000 Yearly Salary

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