Job Description
Job Description
About GrapheneDx: GrapheneDx is a new diagnostics technology company with a mission to transform consumer diagnostics. Our employees gain experience in a multidisciplinary, fast-paced start-up and have ample opportunities to acquire new skills, engage with emerging technologies, and collaborate closely with an accomplished team, all within in a supportive and energetic environment.
GrapheneDx offers a competitive compensation package including base salary, performance bonuses, paid time off, health and dental benefits, and excellent growth opportunities.
GrapheneDx is seeking a Senior Electronics Engineer who will apply their expertise to support the development of their first generation product and own all electronics-based activities within the business.
Position Summary:
The ideal candidate for this role will act as technical lead for all internal electronics engineering development work in all key R&D Product development activities, to bring products to market that meets startup product development strategy and deliver impactful diagnostic products globally. The candidate will work collaboratively with the Program, R&D, Fabrication and Quality teams to lead and support all electronics product design and development activities within the company and with company partners.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Lead the development engineering activities on current and future generation electronics subsystems and their integration into startup products:
- Responsible for concepting, creating and testing prototypes for proof of concept to take that learning back into design iterations
- Responsible for developing electrical sensing platforms to support Assay development in accelerating electrical-based biosensor development
- Provide data analysis on product designs and throughout testing to iteratively improve product performance to meet product requirements
- Act as technical decision maker for the electronics subsystem
- Own and contribute to product development documentation within our Quality Management System:
- Manage electronics product requirements and specifications in collaboration with the Engineering and Quality teams
- Generate design files and detailed specifications that are transferred to manufacture
- Provide technical expertise in development of risk management documents including dFMEA, pFMEA, and Risk Analyses, and create and implement mitigation plans based on risk analysis outputs
- Implement documented testing to meet product Verification and Validation (V&V) requirements
- In collaboration with manufacturing and design partners:
- Assess the design for manufacturability and implement solutions to ensure product design meets short term manufacturability requirements and long-term scale needs
- Support in translating new product requirements to manufacturing requirements
- Contribute to cross-functional meetings and technical reviews as the Electronics Subject Matter Expect
- Supervise and mentor junior staff as applicable
- Contribute to continuous improvement activities to further enhance operational efficiency
- Manage relationships with critical suppliers, in partnership with Quality and Supply chain groups
- Contribute to startup product development roadmap and technology portfolio
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electronics engineering with 7+ years’ applicable industry experience, or a PhD with 5+ years of applicable industry experience
- Strong skills in electronics product development including:
- Proficiency with PCB visualization and layout tools e.g. Altium
- Familiarity with low and high volume manufacturing techniques and suppliers
- Development of low cost, single use disposable PCBAs
- Development of electrical sensing platforms
- Embedded Software development e.g. C
- Familiarity working in the Medical Device, In-Vitro Diagnostics or Consumer Health sectors, and compliance with ISO13485/ISO9001
- Working under design control for regulated products e.g, medical devices, including requirements management, risk management, and V&V
- Experience in low & high-volume manufacturing
- Strong data processing and visualization skills (Python, MATLAB, R, or equivalent)
- Strong background in signal processing, developing mathematical frameworks and algorithms to classify diagnostic results from complex signals
- Strong cross-functional problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify challenges and propose alternative approaches
- Ability to coordinate effectively across multiple functional areas
- Highly motivated and adaptable, with the flexibility to thrive in a dynamic and interdependent environment
Preferred Qualifications:
- SolidWorks 3D CAD design experience
- Experience developing electrochemical and electrical-based biosensors
- Experience in designing for high-volume manufacture
- Database management for rapid data collection and processing (e.g. MongoDB)