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 SystemVerilog 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.