Lead Product Development Engineer

Future Co-Founder | From R&D to Industrialization | Cardiovascular In Vitro Simulation | Mons, Belgium

The opportunity

Pulso is not hiring an engineer to fill a seat — we're looking for the person who will help build the company itself.

As THE first engineer, you won't inherit a team, a process, or a playbook. You'll create them.

This is a role for someone who wants more than a job description: real ownership, direct exposure to the founder and clients, and a genuine path toward a co-founder-level position as Pulso scales. If you're energized by ambiguity, enjoy building things with your own hands, and want your decisions to visibly shape a product and a company — this is built for you.

About Pulso

Pulso is a Belgian MedTech startup (a spin-off from the University of Mons, launched in late 2025) developing in vitro cardiovascular simulation platforms for medical device manufacturers, hospitals, and research centers. The systems replicate real cardiovascular conditions — flow, pressure, valve dynamics — to accelerate the development, evaluation, and validation of medical technologies, including training platforms for cardiologists that currently rely heavily on animal testing.

We're already generating revenue, have delivered 15+ projects, operate across several European markets (Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, France, the UK), and are entering a major growth phase.

What you'll actually do

• Own technical development end-to-end: design, prototype, assemble, test, and continuously improve Pulso's products and client-specific setups.

• Design and run in vitro test campaigns: define simulation protocols (flow, pressure, valve dynamics), replicate target physiological conditions, and validate tested devices against rigorous technical and clinical criteria.

• Build the engineering function from scratch: put in place the methods, documentation, planning, and workflows that don't exist yet — CAD/version control, BOM management, test protocols, issue tracking.

• Run technical projects autonomously: turn requirements into action, coordinate suppliers and partners, anticipate risks, and make the corrective calls needed to deliver.

• Challenge and improve, proactively: bring your own engineering point of view to Pulso's products and ways of working — we're not looking for someone who waits to be told what to do.

• Bridge engineering and the field: translate client and clinical needs into technical solutions, and represent Pulso in client meetings, demos, hospital visits, and cardiovascular congresses.

Your first big objectives

1. Industrialize the current valve simulators — turn prototypes and custom builds into robust, reproducible products (design, BOM, assembly procedures, validation protocols, quality criteria).

2. Develop the next generation of cardiovascular simulators — from concept and CAD through prototyping, in vitro testing, and delivery.

3. Build a reliable supplier and production ecosystem — structure suppliers, purchasing, manufacturing partners, component choices, and inventory as volumes grow.

4. Bring the Pulso Pump to industrial product maturity — strengthen the mechanical and electromechanical design, improve robustness and maintainability, structure the software/UI layer, and establish a clear approach to validation and failure-mode risk management.

5. Make the Pulso Pump commercially scalable — define a controlled product configuration, documentation, testing, and release process so every unit shipped is consistent, supportable, and client-ready — not treated as an engineer's prototype.

6. Build the engineering system behind the products — practical CAD/versioning, BOM, test protocols, technical documentation, issue tracking, and corrective actions, so technical knowledge doesn't live in one person's head.

Who we're looking for

• A degree in mechanical, electromechanical, biomedical engineering, or an equivalent field.

• A first R&D or hands-on mechanical engineering experience, ideally in the MedTech sector is recommended — this can be your first hands-on R&D or industrialization role, as long as it's a real one. What matters more than years is what you've built so far.

• Experience taking a physical product from CAD/prototype through testing, manufacturing, or market launch is a strong plus.

• A genuine entrepreneurial streak: you like building from scratch, you can structure processes that do