Product Manager - Preclinical Device
Role Summary
Join Netholabs in London as a Product Manager for cutting-edge preclinical devices, driving R&D delivery and product development.
About the Organisation
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.
Key Responsibilities
- Take working prototypes to shippable, field-deployable systems — define the product, own the roadmap, and drive it to delivery
- Specify and build out over-the-air update infrastructure: firmware, versioning, rollback, fleet management, remote diagnostics
- Own the design-for-manufacture transition — DFM/DFA reviews, BOM ownership, tolerancing, test fixtures, and production test protocols
- Identify, qualify, and manage contract manufacturers and suppliers; own the relationship from RFQ through NPI to sustained production
- 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
- Define the requirements that make in-the-wild collection viable: wearability, session setup time, robustness, battery life, and unattended operation
- 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
- Build the quality, documentation, and regulatory groundwork (design history, ISO 13485-style discipline, CE/UKCA pathway) appropriate to a research-device product
- Contribute to the industrialisation of our rodent recording platform where the manufacturing and OTA problems overlap
Minimum Requirements
- Min 3+ years (ideal 7+) in hardware product management, product engineering, or programme management, with several products you personally took from prototype to volume manufacture
- 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
- Deep understanding of connected-device architecture: OTA update mechanisms, device provisioning, telemetry, fleet management, and what it costs to get these wrong
- 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
- Track record of writing specifications and protocols that people actually follow
- Comfort with ambiguity and a small-company reality: no PMO, no roadmap tooling team, no one to delegate the boring parts to
- Experience with wearable, biosignal, or medical device hardware
- Familiarity with human research data collection — protocols, participant handling, IRB/ethics, GDPR and special-category data
- Experience shipping a product to CE/UKCA or FDA pathway
- Background in neuroscience, biomedical engineering, or a related field
- Experience with multi-sensor time synchronisation and the data infrastructure behind it
Working Conditions
To 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.
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- Direct ownership of a product line at a company small enough that your decisions ship
- Equity in an early-stage company building foundational infrastructure for brain modelling
- A team of neuroscientists and engineers doing genuinely novel work
- Central London lab, on-site, with access to the Sussex rodent facility
Eligibility Criteria
No specific eligibility criteria mentioned; application details for foreign candidates are unclear.
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