Product Manager - Preclinical Device

Compensation: £100,000 - £140,000/year depending on experience · Equity / stock optionsLocation: London, with occasional travel.

About Netholabs

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.

The RoleWe 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.You will own R&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. What you'll doTake working prototypes to shippable, field-deployable systems - define the product, own the roadmap, and drive it to deliverySpecify and build out over-the-air update infrastructure: firmware, versioning, rollback, fleet management, remote diagnosticsOwn the design-for-manufacture transition - DFM/DFA reviews, BOM ownership, tolerancing, test fixtures, and production test protocolsIdentify, qualify, and manage contract manufacturers and suppliers; own the relationship from RFQ through NPI to sustained productionEstablish 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 sitesDefine the

Requirements

that make in-the-wild collection viable: wearability, session setup time, robustness, battery life, and unattended operationWork 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 manufacturingBuild the quality, documentation, and regulatory groundwork (design history, ISO 13485-style discipline, CE/UKCA pathway) appropriate to a research-device productContribute to the industrialisation of our rodent recording platform where the manufacturing and OTA problems overlap

What We're Looking For

EssentialMin 3+ years (ideal 7+) in hardware product management, product engineering, or programme management, with several products you personally took from prototype to volume manufactureDirect, 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 awayDeep understanding of connected-device architecture: OTA update mechanisms, device provisioning, telemetry, fleet management, and what it costs to get these wrongFluency 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 wrongTrack record of writing specifications and protocols that people actually followComfort with ambiguity and a small-company reality: no PMO, no roadmap tooling team, no one to delegate the boring parts toStrongly preferredExperience with wearable, biosignal, or medical device hardwareFamiliarity with human research data collection - protocols, participant handling, IRB/ethics, GDPR and special-category dataExperience shipping a product to CE/UKCA or FDA pathwayBackground in neuroscience, biomedical engineering, or a related fieldExperience with multi-sensor time synchronisation and the data infrastructure behind itWhat we offerDirect ownership of a product line at a company small enough that your decisions shipEquity in an early-stage company building foundational infrastructure for brain modellingA team of neuroscientists and engineers doing genuinely novel workCentral London lab, on-site, with access to the Sussex rodent facilityTo apply: send a CV and a short note about a product you took from prototype to manufacture what broke, and what you did about it.Find more English Speaking Jobs in United Kingdom on Arbeitnow