Engineering Program Manager, Synchron
Implantable brain computer interfaces
Job no longer available
Implantable brain computer interfaces
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To create an endovascular implant that can transfer information from every corner of the brain at scale.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelors degree in Engineering or Scientific field
- Minimum of 7 years of technical work experience with 3+ years of technical leadership experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience with 2+ years of technical leadership or managerial experience
- Experience working with complex systems
- Experience in a regulated environment
Desirable
- Advanced degree in engineering or scientific field. 3-5 years of technical work experience; over two years of project management experience
- Demonstrated track record in successfully leading projects to completion on time and within budget
- Working knowledge of project management methodologies and tools, particularly on Risk Based Decision Making
- Demonstrated strong business acumen and planning
- Demonstrated cross disciplinary aptitude
- Strong communication skills (written, verbal, listening (with all levels of the organization)
- Strong interpersonal, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to facilitate team meetings, creates and delivers presentations, and drive meetings to action-oriented decisions
- Experience supporting cross-functional teams
- Results oriented. Ability to drive to completion in adherence to aggressive project schedules
- Enthusiasm towards process improvements and change management
- Identifies and resolves issues in a proactive, creative, and timely fashion
- Experience with Class III active implantable medical devices
What the job involves
- The Program manager a member of the R&D staff
- This leader is responsible for the management direction of all phases of design and development of a first in world implantable device system through all phases of product development
- Program Leadership of a complex multi-functional program, with strong interpersonal skills
- Technical Acumen: Ability to connect between diverse technical disciplines and drive active alignment and cross functional decision making for deep technical expertise
- Systems thinking: Ability to connect technical concepts and issues to implications for cross functional partners as well as impact to the end user
- Accountable for overall program execution. Works with functional core/extended team members and external partners to ensure clear communication of R&D objectives, deliverables, and timing of key milestones. Proactively resolves conflict
- Manages daily execution of project/programs including critical path tasks, resources, and risk
- Effective use of project schedules and work breakdown to manage project critical path activities
- Understands applicable product standards and procedures and navigates the matrix to provide the required regulatory deliverables
- Maintains effective communication with all key stakeholders
- Monitors progress toward pre-established objectives, assesses risk and implements strategies to ensure successful delivery of the efforts that align with business goals
- Maintains strong focus on time-to-market while solving problems creatively; cuts through complexity
- Delivers results with uncompromising quality, integrity, and ethics
Our take
Brain-machine interfaces have long been a technological dream, shouldering hope of bringing communication and movement to paralysed people. However, the need to drill into a patient’s skull in order to deliver these interfaces had held back advancements in the field for years.
Synchron, founded in 2016, is the first company to propose a safer delivery method via the jugular vein. Its proposition does not require heavily invasive surgery, and the interfaces may be used in a wide range of paralysis cases. The intended result is the ability to send texts and emails, and access online services such as health appointments and banking, all with the power of thought.
The company’s technology earned FDA approval in 2021, with its work backed by top research institutes in the field. Synchron has hopes that its final showpiece may be whole-brain data transfer, but for now, its focus on giving communication to the millions of paralysis patients in the world represents a market opportunity in the tens of billions
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Nov 2025
$200m
SERIES D
Dec 2022
$75m
SERIES C
Total funding: $336.5m
Company HQ
Bedford-Stuyvesant, NY
Leadership
Thomas Oxley
(Co-Founder & CEO)Interventional Neurologist with Mount Sinai Health System. Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne. Medical Director and Founder of Vasculab.
Rahul Sharma
(Co-Founder & Medical Director)Also a Professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, an Interventional Cardiologist at Stanford Health Care. Previously Assistant Professor of Medicine at Cedar-Sinai.
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