Senior Discovery Engineer - Digital

Senior Discovery Engineer - Digital

City: Augsburg

Country/Region: Germany

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Business Area: R&D

Department: Discovery

Employment Type: Full-time

Req ID: 10401

Senior Discovery & Digital Innovation Engineer

If youre excited by emerging technologies, enjoy exploring new ideas, and want to help shape the future of healthcare, this could be the opportunity for you.

You will join Ambus Discovery organization and play a key role in identifying and maturing future growth opportunities beyond our current product portfolio. Working at the intersection of healthcare, technology innovation, business creation, and digital capabilities, you will help uncover and evaluate ideas that could become Ambus next generation of products, services, and business platforms.

Collaborating with colleagues across engineering, clinical, commercial, and innovation functions, you will engage with clinicians, researchers, hospitals, startups, and innovation ecosystems to understand unmet needs, explore technology trends, and translate insights into opportunity assessments, business cases, prototypes, and strategic recommendations.

This is a unique opportunity to combine technical curiosity, commercial thinking, and stakeholder engagement in a role that offers significant visibility and the chance to influence future strategic decisions. If you thrive in an environment where innovation, creativity, and collaboration are valued, wed love to hear from you.

We believe the best ideas come from a mix of in-person collaboration and focused individual work. Thats why this role is based in Augsburg and follows a hybrid working model, with three days per week in the office and two days working from home.

Key responsibilities

Identify and evaluate adjacent business opportunities, changing clinical practices, unmet needs, reimbursement developments, future healthcare trends, and emerging digital technologies.

Translate clinical, market, and technology insights into actionable opportunity assessments, strategic recommendations, value propositions, and early-stage business cases.

Build relationships with clinicians, key opinion leaders, researchers, hospitals, startups, and innovation ecosystems to gain early access to emerging needs, technologies, and opportunities.

Evaluate and mature emerging technologies and digital capabilities, including AI, machine learning, computer vision, healthcare data analytics, automation, robotics, imaging, and software-enabled medical devices, through fast prototypes and demos to make the idea tangible

Develop proof-of-concept solutions, innovation demonstrators, and feasibility assessments to support strategic decision-making.

Collaborate across engineering, clinical, commercial, and innovation functions to assess customer value, market potential, competitive landscape, technical feasibility, and strategic fit.

Drive promising opportunities through Discovery processes and decision gates, from early insight to validated recommendations and development readiness.

Suggested candidate profile

Have significant experience within medical devices, healthcare technology, software, digital health, or other innovation-driven industries, combined with practical experience working in product development, innovation, or business creation environments.

Have demonstrated the ability to identify, evaluate, and mature new opportunities and to develop strategic recommendations, value propositions, business cases, or innovation initiatives.

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