Technical Project Lead - System integration, R&D

Do you want to orchestrate integration across advanced mechanical, electrical, and software systems in a globally recognized med-tech company? Join us in our mission to develop innovative diagnostic hearing and balance solutions that make a real difference in people’s lives.

We are looking for a Technical Project Lead who acts with urgency and confidence to align and orchestrate cross-disciplinary product development, ensuring our advanced systems work seamlessly from concept to launch. If you enjoy solving complex problems and executing change, this is your opportunity to thrive in a dynamic, forward-thinking setting where your leadership will motivate teams to deliver on significant targets.

Innovation Across Disciplines
As our new Technical Project Lead, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring all elements of our products -mechanics, electronics, and software - come together in a coherent and efficient system. You will be a direct and clear communicator, guiding the integration process from concept to release. By making decisions and being accountable, you will ensure that design choices across disciplines align with a unified system architecture and ensure results and goals completion.

This newly established role provides you with an exclusive opportunity to define your contributions and guide our approach to integrating and launching innovative products. Your focus will be on technical coordination, early risk identification, and continuous improvement of integration practices. You will handle objections and lead solutions, ensuring obstacles are overcome and objectives are met effectively.

In this role, you will work on advanced systems that combine mechanics, electronics, and software. As the key driver, you will ensure all components integrate into a robust, reliable solution. If you are motivated by solving complex engineering challenges and making a real impact, this is your chance to join a forward-thinking med-tech company where your contributions help professionals and patients around the world.

Key responsibilities

• Define and maintain integration across disciplines into system builds according to build plan.
• Identify and resolve integration challenges before they impact system performance or timelines.
• Accelerate system verification, ensuring transparency in technical maturity with a focus on targets and test results.
• Take ownership of outcomes, ensuring goals are met and obstacles are overcome.

Plan and prioritize integration activities to reduce technical risk and accelerate system verification, ensuring transparency in technical maturity with a focus on targets and test results.

About your new team!
You will be part of the DGS R&D department, supporting multiple brands in hearing diagnostics. Our team of over 100 engineers spans mechanics, electronics, and software, with locations in Denmark, Poland, and Malaysia.

Your main base will be at our modern Interacoustics HQ in Middelfart, Denmark, reporting directly to the R&D Manager for Mechanics.

Meet your manager
“I’m committed to bringing people together to spark ideas and build truly great products. I believe in open communication, continuous learning, and aiming high, while always supporting you to reach your potential, setting clear goals, supporting professional growth, and empowering every team member to pursue the right solutions. For me, the reward is to build robust, dependable and user-friendly products that help hearing care professionals all over the world”, says Jonathan Wolsing-Hansen.

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What we are looking for
We expect you to hold a relevant engineering degree and have:

• Demonstrated project management skills in cross-disciplinary product development and system integration, with a record of delivering results in complex environments.
• Experience leading teams toward ambitious goals, making tough decisions, and holding yourself and others accountable for outcomes.
• Adept at planning, prioritizing, and coordinating integration activities across hardware and software domains to reduce technical risk and accelerate verification.
• Solid understanding of embedded systems, electronics, mechanics, DSP, and iterative development practices, with focus on test results and fact-based maturity assessments.
• Able to communicate effectively in English.

We imagine that you have:

• Convincing personal presence, motivation, and influence - skilled at inspiring others and executing change efforts.
• Promote a culture of transparency and continuous improvement while ensuring alignment and clarity through excellent facilitation and stakeholder communication.
• Challenge the status quo and maintain momentum by proactively identifying and resolving issues.

Ready to join the team?

Then send your application and CV as soon as possible as we review applications on continuous basis. The application deadline is 28 October 2025.

First-round interviews are scheduled for October 6-7, and second-round interviews for October 18-19.

If you would like to know more about the position, you are welcome to contact R&D Manager Mechanics Jonathan Wolsing-Hansen on +45 28 96 48 19.

We are looking forward to hearing from you!

We value diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) and we are committed to creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome applications from alle qualified candidates regardless of ethnic background, personality, age, gender, and education. Diversity is part of our cultural DNA. Women in STEM areas are particularly encouraged to apply, as Demant supports United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5 on gender equality.

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