Requirements
- BS, MS, or PhD in Mechanical, Electrical, Optical, Systems, or Biomedical Engineering, or a related field; equivalent experience considered
- 10+ years of relevant industry experience, including 3+ years leading a multidisciplinary hardware engineering team or department as a people manager (e.g. senior manager or director)
- Demonstrated experience taking at least one hardware product from R&D prototype through to production and field deployment, with concrete examples of what you'd do differently next time
- A track record of setting multi-year technical or functional strategy and translating it into execution plans, budgets, and resourcing
- Hands-on experience bringing hardware into a regulated environment: GMP, FDA design controls, or equivalent, and leading products through electrical safety certification (UL, CE, or similar)
- Deep technical expertise in at least one core discipline (mechanical, electrical, or optical) and enough breadth to make sound architecture calls across the others
- A strong track record of mentoring engineers and growing individual contributors into leads
- Experience managing external development partners, contract manufacturers, or suppliers against defined scopes and milestones
- Excellent written and verbal communication, including explaining complex technical tradeoffs in scope, quality, time, and (human) resources to executives, partners, and non-engineers
About You
- You lead with concrete examples: you can walk through how you built a team, shipped a product, or recovered a slipping program, step by step
- You're a coach first. You get energy from making a strong team even stronger, and you protect the culture that made it strong
- You think in systems: how the pieces fit together, where the interfaces are, and what will need to scale
- You're flexible and rigorous at the same time, comfortable trading off speed against rigor, and you can teach others to make those calls and feel good about them
- You think strategically about how hardware serves the business, not just how to build it well
- You're comfortable in an R&D environment today and excited to lead the shift to product, not impatient for a finished production line
- You're curious about the biology and comfortable leaning on scientists and bioprocess engineers for what you don't know
- You know when to be flexible and when to be assertive, and once a decision is made, you commit to it and bring your team along
- You're a thoughtful coworker who cares about the company's mission and culture, and you actively seek feedback
Benefits: Generous equity package in an early stage company, retirement plan with company contribution, flexible PTO with healthy time off minimums, company-covered medical, dental, and vision insurance, life and disability insurance, career coaching, mental health support, free team lunches everyday, great snacks, and companywide social events!
Location: The San Francisco Bay Area (Emeryville, CA)