Senior Design Quality Engineer

About the role

Join Hinge Health’s Hardware organization and help build safe, reliable, scalable healthcare products that improve how people move beyond pain. As a Sr Design Quality Engineer, you’ll be a core member of cross-functional product development teams, guiding design quality from early concept through commercialization and design transfer.

You’ll bring practical expertise in design controls, risk management, verification and validation, reliability, manufacturability, product development lifecycle activities, and process validation. You’ll partner closely with engineering, product, manufacturing, purchasing, test, supplier engineering, and Regulatory Affairs to help teams move quickly without compromising patient safety, product quality, or compliance.

What You’ll Accomplish

In your first 3 months

• Build working knowledge of Hinge Health’s quality management system, product development lifecycle, tools, and design-quality practices.

• Establish trusted partnerships with hardware, software, systems, product, program management, and Regulatory Affairs stakeholders.

• Join active product development programs and begin reviewing requirements, design records, risk documentation, and development plans for quality and compliance gaps.

In your first 6 months

• Own or materially contribute to design-control and risk-management execution across product development programs, from user needs and design inputs through design outputs, verification, validation, and transfer.

• Help teams create and maintain complete, accurate, traceable, and inspection-ready design history file records.

• Develop and review risk-based verification and validation strategies, including protocols, reports, acceptance criteria, traceability, and objective evidence.

• Provide actionable quality feedback on design architectures, component selections, requirements, drawings, interfaces, usability and human-factors considerations, and risk controls.

In your first year

• Drive quality readiness for design transfer and commercialization by partnering with manufacturing, purchasing, test, and supplier engineering on scalable designs, process validation, production readiness, and configuration control.

• Lead or support product risk-management activities covering user, design, process, supplier, and software-enabled product risks, and help teams make balanced decisions that protect patient safety.

• Support Regulatory Affairs with submissions, responses to regulatory questions, and audit preparation, participation, response development, and follow-up.

• Coach and influence engineering teams on design quality, design controls, risk management, data analysis, protocol development, reliability, and design-for-quality methods.

• Identify and implement practical improvements to quality workflows, templates, instructions, and cross-functional ways of working as Hinge Health scales its medical-device product organization.

Who You Are

• A quality engineering subject matter expert who can guide cross-functional teams through complex, regulated product development and commercialization activities.

• A risk-based decision maker who protects patient safety and product quality while thoughtfully balancing schedule, cost, technical, and business constraints.

• An owner who solves complex problems with minimal oversight, follows issues through to resolution, and escalates risks that could affect safety, compliance, or launch readiness.

• A clear communicator who can translate complex technical, quality, and regulatory information for engineers, cross-functional partners, and executive stakeholders.

• A collaborative coach who makes design quality practical and relevant, helping teams adopt strong practices without relying solely on authority or procedure.

• A Learn-it-all who stays curious about evolving medical-device standards, software-enabled products, reliability methods, and better ways to scale quality.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, systems engineering, mathematics, physics, or a related technical field.

• 6+ years of experience in quality engineering or a related field, including at least 4 years in a medical-device design and development environment.

• 3+ years of experience applying design controls and risk management from early design and development through commercialization, including experience with electromechanical systems and applicable medical-device standards such as ISO 13485, ISO 14971, IEC 60601, IEC 62304, and 21 CFR Part 820.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree in engineering, mathematics, physics, or a related technical field.

• Experience with software as a medical device (SaMD) and software in a medical device (SiMD).

• Experience navigating a quality management system with minimal oversight across individual product development projects.

• Demonstrated ability to make balanced risk decisions, build consensus, and work through complex technical challenges.

• Experience coaching, mentoring, or teaching engineering teams in design quality, data analysis, protocol development, reliability, or design-for-quality methods.

• Experience communicating complex quality, technical, and regulatory information to executive management.

Hinge Health Hybrid Model

This is a hybrid role based in the San Francisco office, requiring in-person attendance three days per week, for the full 8 hours of a typical business day. The San Francisco office has a dog-friendly workplace program.

About Hinge Health

At Hinge Health, we’re using technology to scale and automate the delivery of healthcare, starting with musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions, which affect over 1.7 billion people worldwide.

With an AI-powered human-centered care model, Hinge Health leverages cutting-edge technology to improve outcomes, experiences, and costs to help people move beyond their pain. The platform addresses a broad spectrum of MSK care, from acute injury to chronic pain to post-surgical rehabilitation, through personalized, evidence-based care.

As the preferred partner to 60+ health plans, PBMs, and other ecosystem partners, Hinge Health is available to over 20 million people across more than 2,800 employers. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, with additional offices in Montreal and Bangalore.

Learn more at hingehealth.com.

What You’ll Love About Us

• Inclusive healthcare and benefits: On top of comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, we offer employees and their family members help with gender-affirming care, tools for family and fertility planning, and travel reimbursements if healthcare isn’t available where you live.

• Planning for the future: Start saving for the future with our traditional or Roth 401(k) retirement plan options, which include a 2% company match.

• Modern life stipends: Manage your own learning and development.

• Grow with us: Grow with us through discounted company stock through our ESPP with easy payroll deductions.

Culture & Engagement

Hinge Health is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind.

We make employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.

We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

We provide reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities. If you feel you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, let us know by reaching out to your recruiter.

By submitting your application, you are acknowledging that we are using your personal data as outlined in the personnel and candidate privacy policy.

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The Senior Design Quality Engineer guides quality activities for medical-device products from early development through design transfer and commercialization. The role partners with engineering, product, manufacturing, suppliers, and Regulatory Affairs to manage design controls, product risks, verification and validation, and regulatory readiness.

Role at a glance

Skills mentioned

What you will likely work on

• Review requirements, design records, risk documentation, and development plans for quality and compliance gaps.
• Support design-control and risk-management work from user needs and design inputs through outputs, verification, validation, and transfer.
• Maintain complete, traceable, inspection-ready design history file records.
• Develop and review risk-based verification and validation plans, protocols, reports, acceptance criteria, and supporting evidence.
• Provide quality input on architectures, components, requirements, drawings, interfaces, usability, and risk controls.
• Coordinate design transfer and commercialization readiness with manufacturing, purchasing, testing, and supplier engineering.
• Support product risk decisions, regulatory submissions and responses, and audit preparation and follow-up.
• Coach engineering teams and improve quality workflows, templates, and cross-functional practices.

Good fit signals

• You bring at least six years in quality engineering or a related field, including four years in medical-device design and development.
• You have applied design controls and risk management through commercialization, including work with electromechanical systems and relevant medical-device standards.
• You can make risk-based decisions that balance patient safety and product quality with schedule, cost, and technical constraints.
• You communicate complex quality and regulatory topics clearly and can coach engineering partners toward practical quality practices.
• Experience with SaMD or SiMD, and an advanced technical degree, are preferred rather than required.