Clinical Evaluation Scientist II

Additional Location(s): Costa Rica-Heredia; Costa Rica-Coyol; Ireland-Galway; US-MN-Arden Hills

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At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.                

This person will need to be hybrid, 3 days a week in the office, at one of the Boston Scientific facilities in Costa Rica, Massachusetts, or Minnesota.

About the role:
As a Clinical Evaluation Scientist II, you will analyze and communicate clinical product risk throughout the project and product lifecycle, providing guidance in safety signal detection and assessment to project teams and senior management. You will ensure compliance with regulatory standards, guidelines, and corporate procedures related to safety risk management. Working collaboratively in a team environment, you will systematically review and synthesize data from published medical literature to develop clinical documentation, including CERs, PMCF reports, and SSCPs, in alignment with clinical and regulatory standards. This role requires excellent writing skills, analytical thought processes, and a methodical clinical evaluation approach to develop benefit/risk profiles for Boston Scientific’s interventional cardiology devices. Your efforts will support product approval, indication expansion, claim support, and mandated post-market requirements.

Your responsibilities include:

• Identify scope and comparative information for CES/CRBA, collaborating with cross-functional partners for clinical risk analysis.
• Conduct literature searches to summarize harms, hazards, alternate therapies, and device-specific benefits; collect primary data from the Design History File.
• Generate risk management documents for BSC products to support internal and regulatory requirements.
• Serve as a liaison between Risk Management and project teams, communicating pertinent information.
• Collaborate with Clinical and R&D to develop clinical deliverable criteria and clinical trial rationalization plans; provide information for DFU, RAWB, and FMEA documents.
• Mentor and act as a subject matter expert in risk management activities, consulting on complex projects and product grouping.
• Serve as SME and Function representative in internal and external audits, preparing responses and supporting process improvements.
• Compile and evaluate data from clinical trials, medical literature, design verification/validation, and product complaints.
• Support the development of literature search strategies and methodical evaluation of medical literature.
• Create analyses to evaluate product benefit/risk profiles, safety, and performance objectives, and develop adverse event profiles.

Required qualifications: 

• Minimum of a Bachelor of Science/engineering degree
• Minimum of 3 years of professional experience in clinical research
• Experience in clinical evaluation and EUMDR
• Strong analytical skills, including strong familiarity with scientific literature
• Strong medical/scientific writing skills

Preferred qualifications:

• Advanced degree (PhD, research-based MS) 
• Knowledge of interventional cardiology/structural heart products and related disease states
• Medical device experience, including understanding of regulatory requirements
• Familiarity with citation management software

Requisition ID: 588399

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