How Nextern Maintains an Innovative and Engaging Workplace

We help impact people’s lives through the manufacturing, iteration, and optimization of world class medical devices. Succeeding in this line of work requires a certain type of individual. This person must have problem-solving capabilities, versatility, and above all, a passion for helping the end-users of the devices. That’s why our employees are our most valuable asset.

We look for people who can exercise their “personal superpowers” while living our company principles. These individuals will not only influence the health of patients in need, but are also responsible for crafting the uniquely collaborative culture that defines Nextern. Here is how our employees drive the success and the positive culture of our business.

We Make Every Day Matter

Nextern believes that the impact of a medical device begins on the day the idea is generated. After that, each subsequent day that the device is designed, iterated, optimized, and manufactured is a critical stepping stone along the path of changing someone’s life. Our employees know that every day matters, and we do not take that responsibility lightly. We strive to treat every task in front of us with the utmost care and diligence, giving our collaborators and ultimately the final patient the best device possible.

We Are In It Together

Collaboration is the key to creating devices that change lives. If the incentives of each member of a team are aligned, their collective mission will be carried out expediently and effectively. At Nextern, we strive to create a work environment in which all of our employees work together on a common goal under a shared banner. We want our teams to grow, to have fun, and most importantly, to make a difference. By caring about one another and celebrating our collective successes, our employees create a one-of-a-kind culture of togetherness.

We Innovate to Impact

Our employees are innovators. We don’t just innovate to serve our collaborators – we innovate to make an impact. Throughout the development, manufacturing, and delivering of our devices, our team constantly strives for high-impact solutions that will revolutionize the market.

Our focus on results allows us to forge meaningful relationships with our collaborators and forge new ways of thinking in the industry. The Nextern team is proud to be innovators that truly make a difference in the real world.

We Show Up and Deliver

At Nextern, we accomplish what we set out to do – no excuses. Our employees understand that our reputation is one of our most valuable commodities. The team at Nextern completes projects on time, and the right way. This dedication is the hallmark of our company culture and our finished products.

Team Up with Nextern

At Nextern, we want to see your medical device change lives. Our team oversees production through every stage – creation, iteration, optimization, and sustainability. Our experienced professionals will help you integrate design expertise with manufacturing solutions that lower costs and increase your margins. Partner with us today to learn how we can help you impact lives with your devices and strive towards a better tomorrow for your patients. Contact us at our website to start a conversation with our professionals today. 

Not every business can say that their work truly changes lives. But at Nextern, the medical devices that we help develop, iterate, and deliver have an enormous impact on the health and livelihood of thousands of people. We do not take this privilege and responsibility lightly.

As a company, our focus is on collaboration – working together to produce the best possible products for the future recipients of these live-saving devices. That mission underpins everything we do and the way we do it. With a mission like ours, it’s our guiding principles that continue to steer us in the right direction every day.

Here are the four pillars of the Nextern mindset that motivate our actions and inspire our professionals.

Make Every Day Matter

The impact of a medical device on someone’s life is immeasurable. However, that impact begins not on the day that the device is delivered to the patient, but on the day the idea for the device originates. Every day along the way to making that device a functioning reality is critical to the life of an individual – and we treat our work days that way.

Every day, our team has the opportunity to positively affect the health of someone else through our work ethic and dedication to the quality of life of patients. Our work day today will shape the futures of those patients. That’s why every day matters at Nextern.

Be In It Together

Nextern embraces cooperation. Team members must align on incentives and mindsets to carry out a mission effectively. We find that collaboration inspires our best work.

Our team strives to create a place where we can enjoyably work together, grow, have fun, and make a difference by producing top-notch products. We care about one another, and we share our successes as collective wins.

Innovate to Impact

Each innovation that we make in the development, manufacturing, and delivering of our devices is done with the intention of creating an impact.

Patient outcome is our primary concern. We are also firmly dedicated to creating workflows and establishing pipelines that positively affect the bottom lines for our clients. We find that streamlining this process can help cement our clients’ place in the market.

What you fix your thoughts and actions on is important; that’s why we have an impact-oriented mindset to the work we do and relationships we forge across our business.

Show Up and Deliver

Reputation is one of the most valuable commodities that any individual or business possesses. At Nextern, we accomplish what we set out to do – no excuses. This dedication is the hallmark of our company and our devices.

We follow through on the development of world-class products, on-time delivery of those assets, and providing the best solutions for our clients, their businesses. Most importantly, we strive to create the best product possible for the patients we serve.

Team Up with Nextern

At Nextern, we want to see your medical device change lives. Our team oversees production through every stage – creation, iteration, optimization, and sustainability. Our experienced team will help you integrate design expertise with manufacturing solutions that lower costs and increase your margins. Partner with us today to learn how we can help you impact lives with your devices. Contact us at our website to start a conversation with our professionals today. 

Nextern is founded and based on the idea of collaboration. Successful and seamless collaboration is what will result in the highest-performing, most effective medical devices on the market. We work hand in hand with innovators, clinicians, and device partners to help bring best-in-class medical devices to the marketplace.

By allowing you to leverage our expertise, you can focus on yours. These synergies allow for faster development time, increased gross margins, better innovation, and quality manufacturing.

Every project will look slightly different based on the collaborators and ideas involved – but here are the tried and true processes you can count on when you partner with Nextern.

Align Incentives

From the outset, we align the incentives of all parties involved in the project. This starts with mindset: we don’t have customers – we partner with collaborators. We vet each potential collaborator carefully and thoroughly with the intention of building a long-lasting relationship. Rest assured, when we partner with you, we are all in.

A key way that Nextern aligns incentives throughout the creation of your medical device is by making a true investment in the production. We don’t make profits from our design or development processes, but only through manufacturing. Thus, our supportive design and development services serve to support the commercial success of our collaborators.

Foster Each Stage of Development

The Nextern process is complete and comprehensive. If you are starting from scratch with your medical device, Nextern has the capacity to assist with market research and design. We also have dedicated features to help you iterate your device, or create the next generation of the product with the help of cutting-edge technology.

Through thoughtful idea generation and regionalized manufacturing, Nextern also specializes in optimizing products. Whether your company is looking to enhance quality or reduce costs, our optimization expertise can help enhance your product offering.

Finally, Nextern has the staff and capabilities to help you sustain your existing place in the market through continuous improvement and design transfer.

Vertically Integrate

The best designs are only commercially viable when partnered with responsible and strategically sourced manufacturing.

Nextern’s proprietary online collaboration environment helps take control of the supply chain for your device by integrating design directly with manufacturing through our Complete Quality System. This is the best way to reduce supply risk and ensure that your products arrive in the market with the best prospects for success.

Team Up with Nextern

At Nextern, we want to see your medical device change lives. That’s why we are dedicated to seeing its production through every stage – creation, iteration, optimization, and sustainability. Our experienced team will help you integrate design expertise with manufacturing solutions that lower costs and increase your margins. Partner with us today to learn how we can help you impact lives with your devices. Contact us at our website to start a conversation with our professionals today.

Nextern is dedicated to bringing great minds together to enhance the future of medical device technology. We employ teams of innovative engineers to improve the lives of others through their work. If you’re an engineer embarking on your next career journey, discover why so many engineers choose Nextern. 

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At Nextern, our team is full of innovative, collaborative, interesting folks who not only dedicate their brainpower to solving medical device problems, but who are also just great to be around. We believe that all people deserve a better quality of life: from the patients who use our devices to the employees who create them. Whether you’re an engineer working on a prototype or you want to develop other ideas into fully realized and manufactured products, you’ll find an exciting home at Nextern. Keep reading for more on why so many engineers choose to work at the leading medical device design and manufacturing company. 

We Value Our Teams

Talented engineers are incredibly valuable to the world. People like you are the problem-solvers, the solution finders, the curious and creative folks who keep pushing the world toward being its best self. Our team shows how much we value our engineers through competitive salaries and benefits packages, flexible work spaces full of natural light, adjustable desks, and tasty, brain-fueling nosh. We designed our office space to empower collaboration and connection and boost productivity. Our staff believes that creativity and brain power are enhanced when people are able to have fun, so we create opportunities for engagement and recreation. The end result is happy engineers who make others happier through good work. 

We Make a Difference 

For many, work is work. It’s a way to burn through some waking hours and leave with cash to use on frivolous things like rent and utility bills. At Nextern, our work allows us to make a measurable and meaningful difference in the lives of real people. The innovative solutions that spring forth from the engineers at Nextern make a real impact on people around the world. We’ve helped people coping with chronic pain through neuromodulation devices, better therapy delivery systems, and even innovated cell therapy solutions. Every day at Nextern, our engineers know the real impact they’re making. 

We Collaborate

Nextern’s guiding principle is bringing about innovation through collaboration. You’ll get to work with some of the best engineering minds in the world, building solutions together. Our engineers collaborate with clinicians, manufacturers, and other innovators daily. Nextern engineers engage with cutting-edge medical device technology that benefits their work and broadens their horizons. Our staff strives to create a collaborative atmosphere. We celebrate new ideas and innovations as we work together to build a better future for medical device technology. 

Begin a Better Engineering Career at Nextern

Do like problem solving, collaboration, learning new skills, and having variety in your work? If you are an engineer with medical device experience, we want to talk to you! Learn more about who we are and view our open positions.

Working at Nextern is a better kind of work. Our team is full of innovators, collaborators and just straight-up fun people to be around! The Nextern philosophy is all about building a better way of life, and that’s not just for our partners or their clients—that’s also for our employees. Whether you’re an engineer looking to turn an idea into a prototype or create fully manufactured products, you’re in the right place at Nextern. Here are three key aspects our employees love about working here, and these qualities also make our engineers successful.

Collaboration is Key

Collaboration is our middle name! Collaborating with different departments within Nextern and with “customers” is what we do best. Actually, we don’t have customers. We refer to them as collaborators because it’s a team effort. We see working with others as an investment to help build manufacturing revenue streams. We’re all in this together, and want our employees to feel that same level of commitment. We keep things transparent at Nextern, and that’s especially important since we’re a start-up medical device company. Our team knows that to create the best product and provide the best service, we need to keep everyone in the loop across departments. We work better together, and through continuous collaboration we create work that we are extremely proud of. 

We Always Prioritize Innovation

Engineering isn’t our only job at Nextern. We’re innovators! Because we are focused on accelerating innovative medical products, we have to be on our toes thinking creatively to find real solutions. Problems solved through Nextern’s innovative solutions make an impact. 

Each of us have our own unique skills and talents, and we want to capitalize on those with you. We are also all for learning new skills based on new trends or interests of yours. To support your innovative spirit, we’ve created an office space that enhances your productivity. Sit/standing desks, flex-work spaces, natural light, and delicious food are non-negotiable for the Nextern team.

Most Importantly, Have Fun!

Let’s be honest, we spend a lot of time with the people we work with. It’s our goal to make it a fun, positive environment for the entire team. We often like to celebrate with food, especially tacos. We believe that taking the time to also have some fun while at work allows us to be more productive and helps us create innovative medical products. Nextern engineers have the ability to take care of their mental health in addition to physical health through amazing benefits because of our open-minded and positive work culture. We are solving big problems and have a lot of fun doing it. 

Kickstart Your Engineering Career at Nextern

Working at Nextern is a better kind of work. We think working within the medical device industry is a blast, and we think you will feel the same way. We are looking for engineers who can exercise their personal superpowers while living through these company values. If you find satisfaction in problem solving, collaboration, work variety, learning new skills and have medical device experience, we want to talk to you! Learn more about who we are and check out our open positions.