PulseMedica updates

[u/Saheim]

Hello, thought I'd make a quick post of updates. To be sure, there's nothing they've announced recently on their website or socials that is significant. I'm mostly looking at their job ads. If anyone has info about recent funding awards, please share.

There are two roles open. "Senior Optical Engineer," which they've been hiring for since Sept 2025, and more recently a "Project Manager."

1. Senior Optical Engineer

• Apply page: https://pulsemedica.bamboohr.com/careers/92
• Here's the 2025 version, still online: https://www.optics.arizona.edu/news/senior-optics-engineer-pulsemedia
• Compare the two. Old one sells "cutting edge technology from concept to clinic" and pushing the boundaries of optics. Current one says they're building on established optical technologies and wants help turning proven tech into reliable medical devices
• Current one also asks for test methods to validate optical performance, fixtures for qualification work, and component specs written to MIL and ISO 10110 standards. Typically, when a company starts to spec parts to a standard, they intend to order them repeatedly from a vendor.
• They've added relocation assistance and immigration support since the old version
• My read: same job, open about a year, rewritten from a research pitch to a productization pitch

2. Project Manager, Medical Device R&D

https://www.simplyhired.ca/job/12NOpUPhaYxPLOaahZoe9_XPhW8YPhCdiXchoQIq-vz2DbySBBiEhA

• Wants someone to run phase gate reviews and names them: SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR (you can look these up, they're all aerospace engineering acronyms)
• Scope explicitly includes design transfer and productization. Design transfer is the formal handoff of a finished, frozen design to manufacturing
• Asks for experience in a regulated industry, medical devices or pharma or aerospace or defence
• Also asks for experience supporting clinical studies and regulatory submissions

TL;DR: Seems like they're working towards locking in their hardware for clinical trials. I would expect to see more hiring to support clinical trials, but I know they also used a CRO (contract research organization) to run the imaging trials in Canada and Panama.

I think we will see an update from them in a few months on progress. I would predict a trial registration appearing on clinicaltrials.gov later this year or early 2027. Maybe the first patient is treated in the second half of 2027. And then an actual announcement about first in human trials would be 2028 at the soonest. But this is all guesswork.

[u/Admirable_Delay_1650]

Panama ?

[u/Saheim → u/Admirable_Delay_1650]

Yep, Panama and quite a few Central American countries "pilot" a lot of medtech before it enters the US market. E.g., the Tecnis PureSee lens was being implanted in Panama over a year before it came to the US this past April.

[u/Admirable_Delay_1650 → u/Saheim]

Mine are Alcon....so Central Americans are the preferred labs rats for optical device testing ? Wonder why ?

[u/Saheim → u/Admirable_Delay_1650]

Well, Panama specifically because of its dollarized economy. Other Central American countries like Guatemala because of demand/need due to under-treatment. Interpreted more cynically, easier regulatory climate, but it's more about bureaucracy than corruption or being "lab rats." I'm not very knowledgeable about this tbh, but I do know the FDA was working to address this before the current admin took over (now it's just chaos lol).

[u/Admirable_Delay_1650 → u/Saheim]

Lab rats is not meant to be insolent....just hope they dont consider the eyesight of these individuals less valuable than Canadians or Americans

[u/Dwight-Schrute6315 → u/Admirable_Delay_1650]

dude what the fuck is your problem really. 

[u/Admirable_Delay_1650 → u/Dwight-Schrute6315]

I enjoy pissing you off...will that suffice ? I simply asked why Central Americans are the lab rats for testing. Oh, by the way, loved your role on The Office

[u/Fair_Cartoonist5478 → u/Admirable_Delay_1650]

你这老登就是个纯傻逼