Product Manager - Preclinical Device

About the role

Netholabs is seeking a hands-on Product Manager to transition their neural and behavioural recording prototypes into reproducible, manufacturable, and remotely updatable products. You will own R&D delivery, collaborating with engineering teams to scale hardware production and establish best-practice data capture protocols. This role requires a blend of technical oversight, supplier management, and product lifecycle ownership to ensure systems are field-deployable and robust.

Responsibilities

• Take working prototypes to shippable, field-deployable systems by defining the product, owning the roadmap, and driving delivery.
• Specify and build out over-the-air update infrastructure including firmware, versioning, rollback, and fleet management.
• Own the design-for-manufacture transition including DFM/DFA reviews, BOM ownership, and production test protocols.
• Identify, qualify, and manage contract manufacturers and suppliers from RFQ through NPI to sustained production.
• Establish and enforce best-practice data capture protocols across modalities to ensure consistent data quality.
• Define requirements for in-the-wild collection including wearability, robustness, and battery life.
• Build quality, documentation, and regulatory groundwork appropriate to a research-device product.

Required skills

• Hardware product management
• Contract manufacturing
• Connected-device architecture
• OTA update mechanisms
• Fleet management
• Electronics
• Mechanical engineering
• Firmware

Nice to have

• Wearable hardware
• Biosignal hardware
• Medical device hardware
• Human research data collection
• IRB
• GDPR
• CE/UKCA certification
• FDA pathway
• Neuroscience
• Biomedical engineering

Qualifications

• Background in neuroscience, biomedical engineering, or a related field

Benefits

• Equity

About the Company

Netholabs builds large-scale neural and behavioural recording platforms to generate the data needed for the next generation of brain models. They operate a preclinical ethological monitoring system and a human motion-capture and neurophysiology platform.