Location: Alameda, CA

Job Summary:

This dynamic position will support R&D, sustaining engineering and new product development efforts. This individual will work cross-functionally with engineering, service, and quality departments to help ensure continuous improvement of existing products and top-notch new product development. 

Specific Responsibilities Include:

• Help with R&D, prototyping, testing, and refining new product ideas, components, and products.
• Identify and implement methods of testing new components and systems.
• PCB and system testing.
• Writing and executing verification protocols, including defining acceptance criteria.
• Sustaining engineering.
• Establish and implement testing procedures that prove product design reliability, safety, and efficacy.
• Suggest, prototype, test, and implement design improvements on existing products.
• Test fixture design, build, calibration, and documentation.
• Root cause and failure analysis.
• Write work instructions for service and repair.
• Train service personnel in new procedure.

Requirements & Professional Experience:

• Minimum Education/Experience
• Associate’s degree in electronics or equivalent
• First-hand experience solving electromechanical problems in the real world
• System, subsystem, and component/board level troubleshooting
• Surface-mount and thru-hole soldering proficiency
• Proficiency in MS Word and Excel

Other Desired Experience

• Medical device experience under FDA design control, CGMP and/or 13485 regulations strongly preferred
• Electromechanical devices, mechanisms, fluidics experience
• Lab view
• Test fixture design and development
• Knowledge of fluid mechanics and heat transfer principles

Organizational Requirements

• Willing to do what needs to be done, even if it is outside the job description
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Team player with a play-to-win attitude
• Committed to continuous learning
• Strong work ethic
• Comfortable with fast-paced, rapidly changing, and FDA-regulated environment
• Very detail-oriented
• Ability to work with minimal supervision
• Strong time and project management skills