Director of Quality Engineering, Beacon Biosignals
$195-215k
+ equity
AI brain monitoring
Open for applications
AI brain monitoring
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$195-215k
+ equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To improve human health by enabling rapid, targeted interventions through advanced brain analytics.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum 10 years of combined software and hardware quality experience in medical device industry
- Previous experience managing teams of Quality Engineers, including performance management, mentoring, and development
- Proven ability to coordinate team activities and delegate effectively based on competency and workload
- Track record of developing direct reports and building team capability
- Experience managing competing priorities across multiple projects and teams simultaneously
- Exceptional interpersonal and relationship-building abilities, with a talent for managing projects and guiding decisions across multiple internal and external stakeholders
- Expert knowledge of key industry standards and regulations: 21 CFR 820, ISO 13485, IEC 60601, IEC 80601, TIR45, ISO 14971
- Demonstrated experience implementing IEC 62304
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant scientific, engineering, or related field
- Knowledge of European regulatory requirements (IVDR/MDR), including CE mark process
- Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to adapt effectively to changing circumstances
- Certified Software Quality Engineer (CSQE) or Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) - required
What the job involves
- This Director of Quality Engineering role reports to the VP of Quality and is responsible for leading a team of Quality Engineers while serving as a strategic technical leader and compliance partner to engineering leadership
- Team Leadership
- Supervise and develop a team of Quality Engineers, coordinating their activities to support company and departmental goals
- Build team capability through mentoring, coaching, and fostering technical expertise in regulated medical device development
- Manage workload distribution and prioritization across multiple concurrent projects and initiatives
- Drive performance management, providing regular feedback and creating development opportunities
- Strategic Management
- Partner with engineering leadership to guide Software, Machine Learning, and Hardware teams through new product development and sustaining engineering
- Champion the least burdensome approach to compliance while maintaining regulatory integrity
- Drive process improvements across the quality management system to enhance efficiency and effectiveness
- Represent Quality in executive-level discussions, audits, and regulatory interactions
- Technical Quality Oversight
- Serve as SME for hardware and software compliance processes across design, manufacturing, product release, and post-market support
- Lead product release coordination in collaboration with engineering and manufacturing teams
- Oversee Software Tool Validation program to meet regulatory and operational requirements
- Represent Beacon in second-party (customer) and third-party audits (ISO auditors) and regulatory inspections
- Drive MDR compliance and CE marking initiatives for Beacon products
- Stay current on international standards and regulations, ensuring organizational awareness
- Act as quality and compliance consultant for engineering, machine learning, and manufacturing teams throughout design and process control
- Ensure timely project delivery on time, within scope, and in compliance with all regulatory requirements
Our take
The brain has long been considered one of the most mysterious fields of medicine - and psychiatric and neurological diseases therefore one of the least understood. Better access to real-time brain data, however, could change this and that’s exactly what Beacon Biosignals is hoping to deliver.
Beacon Biosignals has developed an AI-powered EEG platform designed to better measure and understand brain activity. Its technology includes a lightweight wearable headband that tracks brain signals during sleep and at home, feeding huge amounts of real-world data into machine-learning models. The aim is to help researchers analyze brain activity faster, identify new biomarkers, and improve the development of treatments for neurological and psychiatric disorders.
The company recently raised major funding and acquired home sleep testing specialist CleveMed as it expands its AI-powered brain health platform. Its FDA-cleared wearable headband is already being used in more than 40 clinical trails studying conditions like depression, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and sleep disorders. By collecting millions of hours of brain activity data, Beacon hopes to help researchers detect diseases earlier and better understand how the brain changes over time.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2026
$11m
SERIES B
Nov 2025
$86m
SERIES B
Total funding: $127.5m
Company HQ
Beacon Hill, Boston, MA
Leadership
Jarrett Revels
(Co-Founder & CTO)Prior to co-founding Beacon Biosignals in 2019, Jarrett spent 4 years at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, joining as a Scientific Programmer before become a Performance Engineer then Research Software Developer.
Jacob Donoghue
(Co-Founder & CEO)Jacob completed a Neuroscience PhD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and received his MD from Harvard Medical School. Subsequently they carried out research for Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems and Massachusetts General Hospital.
Brandon Westover
(Co-Founder)Received their MD from Washington University School of Medicine, then took up a Neurology residency at Harvard Medical School. Alongside their work at Beacon Biosignals, Brandon is also an HST Faculty member at MIT and a Neurologist/Medical AI Researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Syd Cash
(Co-Founder)Syd is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, who also leads the Center for Neurotechnology and Neurorecovery at MGH.
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