Technical Project Manager - College of Engineering - BioMedical Engineering

Carnegie Mellon University is a private, global research university that stands among the world’s most renowned education institutions. With ground-breaking brain science, path-breaking performances, creative start-ups, big data, big ambitions, hands-on learning, and a whole lot of robots, CMU doesn’t imagine the future, we invent it. If you’re passionate about joining a community that challenges the curious to deliver work that matters, your journey starts here! The Biomedical Engineering (BME) Department at Carnegie Mellon University is renowned for its interdisciplinary approach to solving complex healthcare challenges. Located within CMU's College of Engineering, the department emphasizes the integration of engineering principles with biomedical sciences to address pressing medical and biological issues. The department is characterized by its focus on creating impactful technologies and therapies that improve patient care and advance biomedical innovation globally. The Department of Biomedical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University is seeking a Technical Project Manager to provide scientific and technical leadership for a large-scale project focused on developing a wearable, multimodal maternal–fetal monitoring system to transform intrapartum care. The project encompasses the full translational pipeline of perinatal device development - from multimodal sensing hardware through physiology-informed AI, human-factors design, and clinical validation at several hospital sites. This position is technical and science-facing. The Technical Project Manager works closely with the PI and task leads to keep the program’s science and engineering directions coherent across institutions: connecting with clinicians to surface translationally relevant questions, tracking the substance of the work happening at partner labs and companies, and providing high-level technical oversight of approaches, dependencies, and timelines. This position regularly handles sensitive and pre-publication technical information. It is suited to a senior research scientist who wants to remain deeply engaged in science while moving toward a collaboration- and leadership-oriented role. Core Responsibilities: Clinical Coordination and Translational Direction Build and maintain working relationships with the clinical collaborators - maternal-fetal medicine specialists, OB/GYN faculty, neonatologists, and pediatric anesthesiologists Engage with clinicians to understand current intrapartum monitoring practice, unmet needs, decision points, and the clinical context surrounding fetal hypoxia and labor management; surface insights to the PI and task leads. Identify clinically meaningful opportunities and directions for the solution platform and translate these into experimental questions, study aims, and validation priorities. Help shape protocol design, endpoints, and clinical data collection plans for the studies so that the science generated is both rigorous and clinically credible; coordinate with clinical co-investigators on protocol refinement. Represent the technical team in conversations with clinical partners; communicate technical capabilities and constraints in language that clinicians can act on. External Lab and Industry Partner Coordination Serve as the substantive technical point of contact between the CMU lead labs and external academic and industry partners. Develop a working understanding of sensor designs, signal processing approaches, software stacks, hardware integration plans, regulatory and manufacturing posture. Track partner progress against project deliverables, surface technical risks early, and flag where dependencies between partners are at risk. Synthesize partner activity into clear technical updates for the PI, task leads, and (when needed) funding agency. Technical Direction and Strategic Oversight Provide high-level technical oversight across different tasks on the project and assessing whether the overall technical strategy and the work plans of individual partners are coherent and on track. Identify technical risks, gaps, and over-investments early; recommend prioritization, scope adjustments, or additional collaborations to the PI. Maintain a current internal picture of the system architecture and ensure each partner’s effort plugs into that architecture cleanly. Support technical content for reporting, milestone reviews, FDA Q-submissions, and regulatory planning, in collaboration with the Program Manager (who handles program-level reporting logistics) and the task leads Science Engagement and Leadership Remain hands-on with the science: participate in technical discussions, review data and figures, and contribute to manuscripts, abstracts, and grant proposals as a senior author or co-author where appropriate. Mentor graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and research staff on experimental design, multimodal data interpretation, and translational thinking Help foster a collaborative and inclusive lab and consortium culture, particularly across the engineering / clinical / industry boundary Adaptability, excellence, and passion are vital qualities within Carnegie Mellon University. We are in search of a team member who can effectively interact with a varied population of internal and external partners at a high level of integrity. We are looking for someone who shares our values and who will support the mission of the university through their work. Qualifications: PhD in biomedical engineering, electrical engineering, biophysics, neuroscience, applied physics, or a related field (or equivalent research experience). Multiple years of post-PhD research experience in a relevant laboratory or research-and-development setting. Demonstrated experience working in or coordinating multi-institutional and/or international research collaborations is strongly preferred. Familiarity with clinical research, human-subjects studies, IRB processes, and/o