Company Summary
LiquiGlide is an exciting, fast-growing start-up whose mission is to fundamentally alter interfaces between liquids and solids to eliminate waste, save lives, and enable a new engineering paradigm. Originally developed at MIT, LiquiGlide’s technology platform enables custom-design of slippery coatings for endless applications—packaging, medical devices, and manufacturing.
We will bring about a greener, safer, more efficient world. LiquiGlide® has won a variety of innovation awards and been featured on CNN, NBC, ABC News, BBC, and Fox News, as well in The New York Times, and we are working with some of the largest and most successful businesses across many industries.
Are you a creative problem-solver, self-driven, and motivated to make a difference through
innovation in medical devices? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment with new technical
challenges to tackle every day? Do you long for the opportunity to work on a large variety of
applications, across multiple disease states and solving countless unmet patient needs? If you
answered yes to at least one of these questions, we would love for you to join our growing team
at LiquiGlide!
At LiquiGlide we develop solutions to fundamentally alter the interface between liquids and
solids, enabling a new engineering paradigm with immense versatility and the ability to
profoundly improve the usability, patency, and safety of medical devices. Applications include
vascular access catheters, syringes, devices for emergency airway access, parenteral feeding,
ostomy, blood collection and storage, and many more.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Work across all stages of development, from early innovation to product development and commercialization.
- Translating ideas to the bench for proof-of-concept, developing simulated use test environments
- Prototyping, conducting all manner of functional tests including designed experiments (DOEs)
- Transferring technologies to manufacturing, interfacing with clients and partners, and reporting to
senior leadership.
Skills and Experience
- Degree in Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering,
Materials Science, or related field: BS + 3-5 years of experience, or MS + 1-3 years of
experience
- Ability to work in both chemical and mechanical laboratories, and to conduct
experiments independently and with attention to detail
- Creative and entrepreneurial mindset, excellent learning agility, team player, and ability
to work nimbly in a fast-changing environment
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (both oral and written), and ability to
work in a design controlled environment
- Basic skills with solid modeling using CAD software, as well as hands-on experience
with 3-D printing and other prototyping methodologies