Product Manager - Preclinical Device

<p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Compensation:</strong> £100,000–£140,000/year depending on experience · Equity / stock options</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Location</strong>: London, with occasional travel. </p><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div><h2>About Netholabs</h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">Netholabs builds large-scale neural and behavioural recording platforms to generate the data needed for the next generation of brain models. We operate two recording platforms: a preclinical ethological monitoring system integrated with behaviour and neural data and a human motion-capture and neurophysiology platform. We are a small, fast-moving team where hardware, neuroscience, and ML sit in the same room.</p><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div><h2>The Role</h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">We are building integrated human motion-capture and neurophysiological recording systems for both controlled lab studies and naturalistic, in-the-wild data collection. Today we have working prototypes. We need someone to turn them into products - reproducible, manufacturable, remotely updatable systems that can be deployed at scale and maintained without an engineer in the room.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">You will own R&amp;D delivery across the London lab and hardware programme: co-developing the hardware with our electronics and mechanical engineers, importing and enforcing best-practice data capture protocols, and engaging contract manufacturers to scale. This is an agentic, hands-on role -with support engineer roles as required. You will spend as much time in the lab and on the phone with suppliers as you will in a spec document.</p><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div><h2>What you'll do</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Take working prototypes to shippable, field-deployable systems — define the product, own the roadmap, and drive it to delivery</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Specify and build out over-the-air update infrastructure: firmware, versioning, rollback, fleet management, remote diagnostics</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own the design-for-manufacture transition — DFM/DFA reviews, BOM ownership, tolerancing, test fixtures, and production test protocols</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Identify, qualify, and manage contract manufacturers and suppliers; own the relationship from RFQ through NPI to sustained production</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Establish and enforce best-practice data capture protocols across modalities (EEG, fNIRS, EMG, pupillometry, motion capture, video) so that data quality is consistent across sessions, operators, and sites</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Define the requirements that make in-the-wild collection viable: wearability, session setup time, robustness, battery life, and unattended operation</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Work directly with our electronics, mechanical, firmware, and neuroscience teams to translate research needs into hardware requirements — and push back when a requirement doesn't survive contact with manufacturing</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build the quality, documentation, and regulatory groundwork (design history, ISO 13485-style discipline, CE/UKCA pathway) appropriate to a research-device product</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Contribute to the industrialisation of our rodent recording platform where the manufacturing and OTA problems overlap</p><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div></li></ul><h2>What we're looking for</h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">Essential</p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Min 3+ years (ideal 7+) in hardware product management, product engineering, or programme management, with <strong>several products you personally took from prototype to volume manufacture</strong></p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Direct, demonstrable experience with contract manufacturers: you have run RFQs, sat through NPI builds, argued about yield, and fixed a production line problem from 6,000 miles away</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Deep understanding of connected-device architecture: OTA update mechanisms, device provisioning, telemetry, fleet management, and what it costs to get these wrong</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Fluency across electronics, mechanical, and firmware enough to hold a real technical conversation with each - you don't need to design the board, but you need to know when the answer you're getting is wrong</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Track record of writing specifications and protocols that people actually follow</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Comfort with ambiguity and a small-company reality: no PMO, no roadmap tooling team, no one to delegate the boring parts to</p></li></ul><h2><strong>Strongly preferred</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience with wearable, biosignal, or medical device hardware</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Familiarity with human research data collection — protocols, participant handling, IRB/ethics, GDPR and special-category data</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience shipping a product to CE/UKCA or FDA pathway</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Background in neuroscience, biomedical engineering, or a related field</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience with multi-sensor time synchronisation and the data infrastructure behind it</p></li></ul><h2>What we offer</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Direct ownership of a product line at a company small enough that your decisions ship</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Equity in an early-stage company building foundational infrastructure for brain modelling</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">A team of neuroscientists and engineers doing genuinely novel work</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Central London lab, on-site, with access to the Sussex rodent facility</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>To apply:</strong> send a CV and a short note about a product you took from prototype to manufacture what broke, and what you did about it.</p><p>Find more <a href="https://www.arbeitnow.co.uk/english-speaking-jobs">English Speaking Jobs in United Kingdom</a> on Arbeitnow</a>