Position  

We are seeking a dedicated and experienced Staff Systems Engineer to play a critical role in developing and productizing Eikon’s revolutionary platform that measures the motion of hundreds of thousands of proteins to learn about their activity. Our proprietary system hardware is a multi-disciplinary design involving optics, mechanics, electronics, thermal management, and compute. Our system software consists of proprietary algorithms along with AI and machine learning models that we developed to keep up with the large scale of data that is collected. We expect this platform to enable scientists and researchers to gain new insights into biology, biophysics and biochemistry and potentially a variety of industrial applications.

As a Staff Systems Engineer on the platform development team, you will play a central role in the commercial success of a super-resolution imaging system using your technical expertise and interpersonal skills. You will guide development of system and subsystem architecture and design by understanding the relationship between design and user needs. You will need to understand the big picture while navigating and resolving issues at the detail-level. In this role, you will drive key architectural, design, and interface decisions. You will also contribute to our understanding of our design through hands-on characterization and verification.

About You 

The ideal candidate should bring extensive experience developing opto-electro-mechanical systems and have launched products; have experience in systems definition, systems integration, and systems verification; and have excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to analyze complex technical issues to determine effective solutions. Eikon Therapeutics has a strong team spanning science, engineering, and data science. Strong communication and collaboration skills are necessary for working with this diverse team and stakeholders. The person in this position will work on multi-disciplinary problems and will need to drive decisions and issue resolution. A passion for contributing to the convergence of biology and technology through exceptional engineering is a plus.

What You’ll Do 

• Create and manage requirements from system level and below. 
• Create and manage FMEA and Hazard Analysis. 
• Drive system integration builds, debugging, and testing. 
• Create and execute Characterization Plan to characterize the system as well as subsystems. 
• Create and execute Verification Test Plans and Test Protocols.
• Develop testing capabilities to enable characterization and verification including developing test methods, test scripts, and test fixtures. 
• Failure root cause analysis. 
• Coordinate certification testing to comply with national and international standards and regulations.
• Support transfer to manufacturing and sustaining.
• Work with a diverse team of engineers and scientists to resolve issues and innovate.
• Facilitate and drive trade-off analysis including design decisions and component selection. 
• Help define and improve Systems Engineering practices and processes. 
• Educate engineering team on best systems engineering practices. 
• Proactively identify opportunities for system enhancements, optimizations, and improvements. 

Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of relevant experience or a Master’s degree with 6 years of relevant experience or a PhD with 3 years of relevant experience in Optical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field. 
• Strong fundamentals in one of the Engineering or Applied Science disciplines. 
• Completed at least one product development cycle and experience sustaining a product. 
• In-depth experience creating systems requirement and decomposing systems requirement into lower-level requirements and seeing it through verification. 
• Experience creating risk analysis of systems with electrical, mechanical, optical, and software components and coming up with proper risk mitigations.
• Experience working with a cross-functional team to plan and execute integration builds, including hands-on troubleshooting and resolving build issues. 
• In-depth experience creating and executing verification plans and protocols. 
• Experience creating test setups, including designing test fixtures, building opto-electro-mechanical equipment, and creating instrumentation and data acquisition setups.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills for working with diverse teams and stakeholders. 
• Desirable skills and experience: product certification testing, Six sigma, gage R&R, microscopy, and/or AI. 

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 $163,000 to $178,600 depending on skills, competency, and the market demand for your expertise.