Manager, Electronics & Firmware

Engineering Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of electrical and firmware engineers.
• Establish engineering priorities, technical roadmaps, and development plans aligned with product objectives.
• Drive execution through effective project planning, technical reviews, and engineering best practices.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Electronics & Firmware Development

• Lead architecture and development of electronic subsystems including PCBAs, embedded processors, FPGAs, GPUs, detector interfaces, data acquisition hardware, communications interfaces, and instrument control electronics.
• Oversee development of embedded firmware supporting instrument control, data acquisition, signal processing, diagnostics, calibration, and automated quality control.
• Manage development of GPU-accelerated and CUDA-based solutions supporting image acquisition, feature extraction, real-time processing, and scientific data analysis workflows.
• Guide schematic capture, component selection, PCB design reviews, and design-for-manufacturing and design-for-test activities.
• Drive hardware and firmware integration, debugging, performance optimization, and root-cause investigations.
• Establish subsystem requirements, interface definitions, verification strategies, and technical design standards.

System Integration & Product Development

• Partner with optical, mechanical, fluidics, software, systems, scientific, and product management teams to deliver integrated instrument solutions.
• Lead prototype bring-up, subsystem integration, verification, validation, and manufacturing transfer activities.
• Support production test development, engineering builds, pilot production, and sustaining engineering efforts.
• Collaborate with Operations and NPI teams to improve product quality, reliability, manufacturability, and serviceability.

Technical Leadership

• Serve as the primary technical escalation point for complex electronics and firmware challenges.
• Drive innovation in detector electronics, signal acquisition, embedded control systems, imaging systems, and scientific instrumentation.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and architectures to strengthen future product platforms.
• Collaborate with engineering teams, suppliers, and manufacturing partners in the United States and China.

Regulatory & Quality Compliance

• Ensure designs comply with applicable safety, EMC, quality, and regulatory requirements.
• Support DHF documentation, risk management, design reviews, and verification testing.
• Promote disciplined engineering practices including configuration management, requirements traceability, design controls, and engineering change management.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related engineering discipline; Master's degree preferred.
• 8+ years of experience developing complex electronic and embedded systems for scientific, analytical, medical device, biotechnology, or industrial instrumentation products.
• 3+ years of engineering management or technical leadership experience.
• Strong expertise in analog and digital circuit design, mixed-signal systems, PCB development, and embedded electronics.
• Experience developing embedded firmware in C/C++ for microcontroller, processor, or FPGA-based platforms.
• Experience with FPGA architectures, real-time control systems, and high-speed data acquisition hardware.
• Experience debugging complex hardware and firmware interactions using modern laboratory instrumentation and development tools.
• Experience with EMC/ESD design, testing, and regulatory compliance.
• Proven experience delivering products from concept through commercialization and manufacturing transfer.
• Strong communication, leadership, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with flow cytometry, imaging systems, optical instrumentation, or other advanced analytical instrumentation.
• Experience with detector electronics, photodetectors, signal conditioning, and precision analog front-end design.
• Experience with image processing, machine vision, GPU-accelerated computing, or computational imaging applications.
• Familiarity with automated test systems, calibration methodologies, and production diagnostics.
• Experience working within ISO 13485 or similarly regulated product development environments.
• Experience leading globally distributed engineering teams.