Senior Electrical Engineer

Position

The Hardware group at Eikon Therapeutics develops super-resolution, high-throughput optical instrumentation. The Hardware team is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to participate in future instrument development. As part of Eikon's diverse team of biologists, medicinal chemists, hardware, and software engineers, you will design and deploy custom super-resolution microscopes and automated systems that will enable the exploration and quantification of Eikon's high-content datasets.

About you

You are an adventurous, passionate, and creative electrical engineer eager to apply your talents to empower a new way of discovering medicines in a highly interdisciplinary biopharmaceutical environment. You are excited about the challenges of developing cutting-edge hardware from the ground up to enable novel technologies and solve real-world problems, and you will bring to these challenges enthusiasm, high energy, intellectual curiosity, and technical excellence.

What you'll do

* Join an engineering team designing super-resolution microscopes, including signal processing, motion control, robotics and system automation that enables Eikon's scientific achievements

* Contribute to system design architecture of instrument control and data acquisition systems

* Design, prototype, and test electronic assemblies. Work closely with the microscopy and automation teams on design validation, implementation, and design improvements

* Write FPGA and microcontroller firmware to implement required functionality. Write PC host code to test and characterize your design

* Build and release assemblies to be used by scientists and end-users, creating a full suite of documentation and test procedures

Qualifications

* Bachelor's degree with 5 years of relevant experience or a Master's degree with 3 years of relevant experience designing complex digital and analog circuity

* Systems design experience contributing to design architecture

* Ability and desire to bring your design through all stages including directing PCBA layout, working with contract manufacturers, testing, debugging and rework of high density PCBAs with fine pitch components

* Strong experience debugging systems using oscilloscopes and logic analyzers

* Hands-on experience building test set-ups, reworking and modifying assemblies during development and testing

* Experience in high-speed circuitry design such as DDR memory interfaces

* Proficiency with CAD systems for schematic capture and experience in directing and reviewing PCB layout for signal integrity and EMI

* FPGA design and debug experience

* Experience in debugging and design validation of microcontrollers or SoC-based systems

* Experience creating and implementing software and hardware test benches

* Demonstrated proficiency analog circuit design, analysis, and simulation / modeling

* Strong communication and collaboration skills, presenting design ideas and receiving input from internal customers and product marketing

* Intel/Altera Quartusexperience and System Verilog proficiency is preferred

At Eikon, employee compensation also includes bonus and equity compensation, in addition to several generous benefit programs, including:

* 401k plan with company matching

* Medical (premiums covered by Eikon at 95%), dental and vision insurance (premiums covered by Eikon at 100%)

* Mental health and wellness benefits

* Weeklong summer and winter holiday shutdowns

* Generous paid time off and holiday policies

* Life/AD&D Insurance (premiums covered by Eikon at 100%) and optional supplemental employee-paid life/AD&D policies

* Enhanced parental leave benefit

* Daily subsidized lunch program when on-site

The expected salary range for this role is $139,000 to $152,000 depending on skills, competency, and the market demand for your expertise.