Medical device manufacturer focused on interventional therapies
Penumbra designs and manufactures medical devices for challenging vascular and neurological conditions, sold primarily through direct sales in North America, Europe, and Australia. The company's pain-point cluster—yield improvement, manufacturing quality, defect reduction, throughput optimization—indicates heavy capital-equipment operations scaling; hiring velocity is accelerating across engineering, manufacturing, and sales, with mid-level roles dominating, suggesting rapid production ramp-up alongside territory expansion.
Penumbra is a public medical device manufacturer headquartered in Alameda, California, founded in 2004. The company designs, develops, and manufactures novel products for interventional therapies in markets with significant unmet medical need. Distribution is primarily direct through company sales teams in the United States, most of Europe, Canada, and Australia, with distributor partnerships in select international markets. Active projects span product launches, clinical program development, and electro-mechanical device prototyping, with ongoing focus on manufacturing process capability and quality improvement.
Penumbra uses SAP S/4HANA and SAP ERP for enterprise operations, Salesforce (including CPQ) for sales, Microsoft Office suite for productivity, and embedded systems tools including Arduino, STM32, C/C++, and Bluetooth/NFC protocols for medical device development.
Penumbra is actively hiring across 10 countries: United States, Italy, Germany, Poland, Peru, Netherlands, Australia, India, Switzerland, and Hungary. Engineering roles account for 24 of 114 active positions, with mid-level and senior engineers representing the majority of the seniority mix.
Current projects include product launches, clinical program development, vascular education initiatives, and prototyping electro-mechanical systems for novel medical devices. Manufacturing focus areas include yield improvement, quality enhancement, and production throughput optimization.
Other companies in the same industry, closest in size