Clinical Modality Lead in Edinburgh

Helping care teams to get the best outcome for their patients is at the heart of everything we do. We strive to create technology that makes a meaningful difference to people's lives, helping doctors to help restore their patients' health and well-being. Canon Medical Research Europe is part of a global organisation, collaborating with other development teams based in Japan, America, and Canada.

Our Research & Development centre in Edinburgh is now recruiting for a Clinical Modality Lead (Ultrasound) who will share our passion and contribute to making a difference!

Company Values:

Unity, Courage, Tenacity, Teamwork, and Excellence

About the role:

This is an excellent opportunity to work in a team-based environment, with exposure to leading edge technology in the medical imaging industry. This role offers an exceptional opportunity within our Edinburgh-based Clinical Team. Working primarily alongside the Ultrasound R&D Team, you will act as the ultrasound clinical lead, supervisor, and mentor for a small sub-team of clinical researchers and product analysts. Your leadership will directly bridge the gap between engineering teams and clinical realities, ensuring that the next generation of ultrasound products meets the highest standards of safety, usability, and clinical efficiency. You will proactively encourage professional growth and identify targeted training pathways for your team.

In this role, you will collaborate closely with Technical and Clinical Managers to manage resource allocation, prioritise projects, and ensure clinical support is seamlessly aligned with engineering sprints. Under your guidance, the team will drive the development of algorithms, software components, and hardware applications by transforming complex clinical insights into actionable engineering requirements. This includes fostering strong relationships with external clinical collaborators and internal development groups, while maintaining strict compliance with global regulatory standards.

Additionally, you will oversee the root-cause analysis of real-world clinical issues across the entire technology stack, directing investigations into software functionality, transducer probes, hardware integration, and clinical workflows. As the primary owner of a clinical trend map, you will research the medical and competitive market landscape to contribute to company innovation, strategy and intellectual property generation. Finally, you will ensure your team thoroughly documents all research and development activities to satisfy rigorous regulatory frameworks.

About you:

We want people who have a real passion for development, technology, and learning. The successful candidate will be a good communicator, with an innovative attitude to problem solving and a pragmatic approach to implementing solutions. You will have the desire and ability to learn and develop new skills and the opportunity to develop your career. To succeed in this position, you must possess a strong clinical foundation backed by a postgraduate qualification in Medical Ultrasound. You should have professional, hands-on clinical diagnostic experience specialising in ultrasound, alongside experience with clinical workflows, imaging systems, PACS, and the hospital environment.

We require a professional who has demonstrated experience acting as a lead, senior, or mentor within a clinical department or a medical industry R&D setting. You will show a proven ability to coordinate the workloads of others, allocate tasks effectively, set key milestones, and maintain accountability for team deliverables. The role requires an analytical mindset capable of performing systematic clinical hazard assessments on prototypes, combined with a willingness to learn and work with highly complex, non-commercial research software. Excellent interpersonal and pedagogical skills are essential, as you must be able to clearly communicate complex clinical contexts to non-clinical engineering teams and global stakeholders. Given the international nature of our research, you must also be willing to travel frequently to build and maintain relationships with our clinical collaborator network and coordinate with development partners in Japan, America, and Europe.

Although not essential, it is advantageous to have experience acting as a liaison between practicing clinicians and technical software engineers within a hospital or a medical device industry context. Familiarity with specific regulatory frameworks, including the EU Medical Device Regulation, the EU AI Act for high-risk software, and FDA pre-market submission pathways, is also advantageous.

What we can offer you:

We offer an inclusive, flexible working environment and welcome applications from people with a range of different experiences. Our commitment at Canon Medical is to create a working environment where people are valued, respected, have a sense of belonging and can thrive personally & professionally.

We are happy to talk about flexible working for all our roles. The majority of our employees have adopted a hybrid working model and we are also happy to discuss remote working in the UK. We offer competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package that reflects the value we place on our people and the work we do. Our package includes group personal pension scheme, private medical and risk benefits, 245 hours annual leave, enhanced family leave and pay, employee wellbeing support, discounted cinema tickets.

If the above sounds like you, and you like the sound of us, then please get in touch. We'd love to work with you. If you think you might have these skills, but are not 100% sure, please do still apply and we can review. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment.