Engineer: Sr. Electrical Design Engineer

ZipRecruiter; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in Cambridge is seeking a Senior Electrical Design Engineer to join their development team. This role involves owning the hardware development lifecycle, leading PCB design projects, and ensuring compliance with industry standards. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in hardware design and embedded systems, with a focus on delivering high-quality products. If you are passionate about innovation and making an impact in biomedicine, we want to hear from you!

Qualifications

• 5-10+ years of hands-on electrical engineering experience.
• Proven track record of delivering production-quality PCBs.

Responsibilities

• Own full hardware development lifecycle from specification to release.
• Lead PCB design projects ensuring scalability and performance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define hardware requirements.

Skills

hardware design

design for manufacturing

embedded hardware

compliance standards

C programming

Assembly programming

Education

Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering

PhD or MS/ME in EECS

Tools

Altium

Autodesk Eagle

LabVIEW

Verilog

Job description

Job Description

Nanobiosym is an innovative, high-tech company developing novel technologies at the nexus of physics, nanotechnology, and biomedicine. Founded by MIT/Harvard alumni and located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Nanobiosym was awarded the first X-Prize for healthcare.

Position Overview:

We are expanding our development team and seeking an exceptional Senior Electrical Design Engineer with a strong background in hardware design, design for manufacturing (DFM), and full product realization. You will play a key role in designing advanced PCB systems, driving embedded hardware development, and delivering high-quality products to market. This hands-on, technical leadership role is ideal for someone passionate about innovation, quality, and building impactful real-world products.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Own full hardware development lifecycle: specification, architecture, circuit design, simulation, schematic capture, prototyping, validation, and release to manufacturing.
2. Lead PCB design and enhancement projects, ensuring scalability, manufacturability, and performance.
3. Translate early-stage concept layouts into robust, production-ready circuit designs.
4. Review layout and routing concepts to finalize the electrical scope of products.
5. Design systems including MPUs, memory, and FPGAs (not required), ensuring low-level integration with embedded software.
6. Implement control systems in compact, single-board designs with tight constraints.
7. Create and maintain thorough documentation including design requirements, component selection rationale, calculations, and power/thermal budgets.
8. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, evaluate, and refine hardware and driver requirements.
9. Design and build test fixtures for hardware validation and functional testing.
10. Support regulatory and quality processes with a focus on FDA and ISO 13485 compliance.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering
• 5-10+ years of hands-on electrical engineering experience in product development environments.
• Strong understanding of compliance standards in regulated industries (e.g., FDA, ISO 13485).
• Proven track record of delivering production-quality PCBs from prototype through DFM and volume manufacturing.
• Deep experience with Altium, Autodesk Eagle, or comparable CAD tools (5+ years).
• Strong embedded hardware skills including C and Assembly programming for low-level systems.
• Experience with Verilog, FPGA, or ASIC design (not required).
• Familiarity with LabVIEW for test automation and instrumentation (3-5 years' experience, not required).
• Java programming skills (not required).

Additional Qualifications:

• PhD or MS/ME in EECS or related fields/experiences
• LabVIEW development experience in automated testing environments.
• Instruments Certification (CLD or CLA).
• End-to-end experience developing and launching medical devices or similarly regulated products.

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