Senior Electrical Engineer

Eikon Therapeutics is a new biopharmaceutical company employing revolutionary technology at the intersection of chemistry, engineering, computation, and biology to discover novel treatments for life-threatening diseases. Eikon’s discovery platform is built on groundbreaking innovations from its founders (Nobel Prize, 2014), culminating in the creation of microscopes which enable real time, molecular-resolution measurements of protein movement in living cells, thereby unlocking otherwise intractable classes of proteins as drug targets.

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

• • 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

• • 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

• • FPGA design and debug experience is preferred

• • 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 $152,000 to $168,000 depending on skills, competency, and the market demand for your expertise.

• Eikon is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment.

• We are currently not accepting any new third-party agencies or firms at this time. Please do not forward unsolicited agency resumes to our website, employees or Human Resources. Eikon Therapeutics will not pay fees to any third-party agency or firm associated with unsolicited resumes.