Senior Research Systems Design Engineer

Are you ready to be the driving force behind groundbreaking innovations? At Sable Systems International, we don’t just create cutting-edge systems—we partner with researchers worldwide to ‘Catalyze Discovery and Understanding’ in life science. As a Senior Research Systems Design Engineer, you'll contribute to our mission by applying your electrical and mechanical expertise to help design, build, and test metabolic and behavioral measurement systems used by top institutions worldwide.

As a member of the Research team, you’ll work collaboratively with other passionate scientists and innovative engineers to deliver solutions to expand our growing product pipeline. We seek someone who is not just an expert in their field but derives energy and joy from pushing through obstacles and driving projects and tasks through to completion. If you’re ready to fuel passion and innovation, Sable Systems International is looking for you!

• Compensation is dependent upon experience.
• Sable is unable to sponsor H1B or Green Card visas at this time; candidates must have existing, unrestricted U.S. work authorization.
• No phone calls, please.
• Sable has a generous benefits package with Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k) with employer match, Long-term Disability, and many other perks.
• Location:
  
  Onsite - Full Time

Scope: The Senior Research Systems Engineer (SRSDE) works within the Research Department, whose efforts are ultimately designed to assist all other Sable Systems International (SSI) Departments as well as current and future customers. The SRSDE evaluates and recommends new concepts being introduced into the technology foundation utilized in SSI products and services.

The SRSDE will assist in implementing beneficial technologies as they are developed into products and services offered within all SSI product lines. The SRSDE will evaluate and improve the current SSI technology foundation as well as promote and clarify its use to the Research department, the SSI team as a whole, and SSI customers.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Evaluate and maintain an expert knowledge base of currently used technologies (e.g., sensors, electronics, computer/embedded systems, etc.) in SSI products and services to provide solutions to non-conformances and input into the Existing Product Review process, as well as new prototypes and products.
• Contribute to the establishment of performance specifications (e.g., during specifications meetings).
• Develop and document experiments that can be used to measure product performance.
• Refine and streamline experiments to be incorporated as inspection methods.
• Stay apprised of emerging technologies and provide suggestions for how these technologies can be used to improve SSI products and processes.
• Design and execute experiments to evaluate new technologies suggested for introduction into the SSI technology foundation.
• Provide advanced troubleshooting insights and knowledge of instrument maintenance specifications to promote proper maintenance of all SSI instrumentation.
• Represent the Research Department by providing support, data analysis, and technical expertise to all other SSI Departments as needed.
• Promote further education and training of SSI team members and customers by creating and presenting content through various forums and formats.
• Maintain and implement metrics for documenting and measuring the growth and stability of the SSI technology foundation.
• Assist with the Software Team SSI code base when necessary to promote clean, reliable, reusable, and thoroughly tested code.
• Maintain a cursory knowledge of calibration and inspection methods used by SSI to provide consultation to multidisciplinary teams throughout the organization and to the SSI customer base, also back up other Departments in emergency cases.
• Maintain a cursory knowledge of data analysis methods currently in use and assist the Research Team and Data Scientists with expanding and refining the methods to promote transparency in analysis, long-term traceability of instrumentation, and provide rich, useful data to the SSI customer base.
• Other duties as needed to promote growth within SSI and to the scientific community.