JobFrame · Ladder · MDPD.GEN.S2
Medical Device Product Development · General
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Pay by level
Same pricing source as the profile's ticker header — family multiplier + inherited focus differential over the function×level base.
National-base pricing — this family's function differential is pending review, so dollar levels are not function-adjusted (level-over-level % is unaffected).
Pay rises with level — the structure that explains the most pay variance.
Pay figures are modeled estimates from our market equation — level-differentiated, with honest-wide bands. They refresh as new leveling evidence lands; treat per-role dollars as directional.
Mastery at this level
S2 — Foundational · does the basics reliably, by the book
A working system every week and honest schedules
- Keeps a running end-to-end system, builds in small batches, limits WIP, and gets rapid feedback on hardware bring-up
- Produces empirically grounded estimates with real test-time allocation and defends them under pressure instead of adding bodies late
- Enforces engineer-owned quality with meticulous defect discovery close to the source
- Delivery velocity and defect levels are measured and visible
What’s next — Proficientat S3 → S4
Shifting from process control to shaping culture and architecture so the team self-directs toward one coherent design
What to learn
- Why conceptual integrity requires separating architecture from implementation in a small authority
- Drivers of intrinsic motivation and psychological safety in expert engineers
- How productive conflict differs from destructive conflict in design and debugging
What to practice
- Defining and defending a system architecture while delegating implementation
- Facilitating substantive technical debate and negotiated design across subteams
- Communicating vision and role-to-strategy linkage so engineers voluntarily commit
From Lead A Hardware / Deep-Tech Engineering Team — the closest guide to this family (semantic match; stage bands from the canonical level binding).
No JFM factory canon (responsibilities × level, level guidelines × level, skills) for this profile yet.