About this role
What You'd Do:
- Design, build, and debug sensing hardware.
- Develop electronic instrumentation that reads faint biological signals.
- Own mixed-signal PCB design from schematic capture through layout, fab, and bring-up.
- Work with FPGAs to orchestrate the instrument in real time: acquisition timing, data streaming, and control.
- Integrate sensors, boards, firmware, and software into one instrument that runs reliably inside the organ preservation system.
- Reason from first principles, using circuit theory, optics, and measurement physics to model system behavior and debug ambiguous hardware problems.
- Build test fixtures, experimental setups, and control software for validating sensors on real organs.
- Learn quickly, own problems end to end, and contribute across the sensing stack, from transducer to data.
About You:
- You have a strong command of circuit theory and measurement physics (impedance, noise, signal integrity, sampling, electromagnetics), and reach for them instinctively when hardware misbehaves.
- You can walk us through a project in depth: what you built, the physics reasoning that got you there, and where your first mental model was wrong.
- You make order-of-magnitude estimates quickly and can explain the intuition behind them.
- You’ve taken real analog and digital circuits from schematic through PCB layout and bench bring-up.
- You have experience with instrumentation, data acquisition, FPGAs or embedded systems, and object-oriented programming.
- You think in systems: interfaces, integration, and how a board behaves inside the whole instrument, not just on the bench.
- You're excited to work at the edges of your field: the instrument spans optics, photonics, chemistry, and organ science, and you'll learn what you don't know.
- You have a BS/MS in EE, Physics, or equivalent self-taught depth; we care more about demonstrated reasoning ability than credentials.
- You want to join a small, fast-paced team on an excellent adventure.
Benefits
Generous medical, dental and vision insurance coverage
Flexible time off and paid holidays
Competitive compensation package, including salary and equity
Access to a 401(k) retirement savings plan
FSA and commuter benefits
Daily lunch and dinners, plus a variety of snacks
Monthly learning stipend
On-site fitness center
Quarterly team social budget