R&D Engineer, Staff Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a R&D Engineer, Staff to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Design subsystems that are manufacturable, cost efficient, and robust. Collaborate with vendors to develop solutions that meet specification;
- Interact with existing tooling in a hands-on capacity to perform maintenance, troubleshooting, upgrades, and retrofits;
- Collaborate with software, applications, and biology teams to define requirements, engineer, and implement solutions;
- Define system hardware and software architecture, including electrical, mechanical, and communication interfaces for components to meet those goals.
Requirements:
- Experience with creating requisite specification/documentation for FDA medical device filing;
- Rudimentary machining proficiency (mill, lathe, hand tools);
- Understanding of automation software development in embedded microcontrollers;
- Strength/training in optics, microscopy, fluorescence microscopy;
- Experience in designing components and subassemblies that comprise commercialized, life science instrumentation;
- Building prototype design assemblies;
- Basic programming skills in Python, MATLAB, etc;
- Familiarity with optomechanical design, especially as it pertains to microscopy and fluorescence-based assay development;
- Fluency in software used in mechanical CAD (Solidworks, ProE, Inventor or equivalent).