Senior Electronics R&D Engineer - Low-Noise Sensing Systems

At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we’re on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionary scientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovators to tackle humanity’s greatest challenges in four transformative areas:

• Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology
• Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture
• Climate Change & Managing CO₂
• Artificial Intelligence & Robotics

This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you’ll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at .

Welcome to the Pathogen Program

Within this ecosystem, the Pathogen Mission exemplifies EIT’s commitment to transformative science. It aims to revolutionise the diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases by leveraging whole genome sequencing (WGS)-based metagenomic and pathogen-specific analytical tools. This remit includes the development of a decentralised, sample-to-answer sequencing diagnostic platform for infectious diseases, enabling rapid and accurate analysis of patient samples without prior assumptions. Supported by Oracle Inc.’s

cloud-computing scale and security infrastructure, the Pathogen Mission is progressing towards certified diagnostic products for deployment in laboratories, hospitals, and public health organisations worldwide.

Your Role

We are seeking an experienced and innovative Senior Electronics R&D Engineer to develop advanced electronic interfaces, instrumentation, and measurement systems for next-generation nanopore sequencing technologies.

This is a hands-on role within an ambitious early-stage development programme, taking technologies from proof of concept through to integrated, multi-channel sensing systems. Working closely with a Senior MEMS Development Engineer, you will design, build, and test experimental electronics, develop custom instrumentation, and optimise prototype devices through iterative development.

Key areas of focus include precision analogue measurement, low-noise circuit design, multi-channel data acquisition, electronic control systems, and system integration. You will translate emerging concepts into working prototypes, identify technical limitations, and drive continuous improvement based on experimental data.

The role also involves collaborating with external suppliers and technical partners, defining requirements, overseeing outsourced development, and evaluating resulting components and systems. As the programme grows, you will help establish the electrical engineering capabilities, testing infrastructure, and technical foundations needed to support a multidisciplinary development team.

Key Responsibilities

• Take technical ownership of the electrical engineering development of advanced electronic interfaces and measurement systems, from early concepts through to functional prototypes and integrated devices.
• Design, build and commission custom electronic test equipment and experimental platforms to characterise electrical performance, reliability and repeatability.
• Develop prototype electronic circuits and sensing architectures, including multi-channel analogue measurement systems, signal conditioning and data-acquisition electronics.
• Work closely with the Senior MEMS Development Engineer to co-develop and evaluate prototype devices, using experimental findings to guide iterative improvements in device and instrumentation design.
• Design and implement sensitive, low-noise measurement systems capable of characterising electrical…