Senior Mechanical Engineer

Mytos; City Of London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A biotech automation startup in London is seeking a candidate to enhance device reliability and lead hardware development. You'll work with a collaborative team in an innovative lab environment and contribute to groundbreaking solutions in biotechnology. Ideal candidates have experience in complex product development and a passion for engineering challenges.

Benefits

Competitive salary with stock options

Daily lunch coverage

Collaborative team environment

24 days holiday

Pension

Office in Imperial College Innovation hub

Qualifications

• Experience bringing a complex product to market, ideally in lab automation or biotech.
• Understanding of hardware R&D processes focused on reliability.
• Interest in complex electro-mechanical systems and prototyping.

Responsibilities

• Improve robustness and reliability of devices.
• Lead development for systems including optics and fluidics.
• Work on hardware design from concept to manufacture.
• Refine test rigs and quality processes.

Skills

Product design

Reliability engineering

Complex systems understanding

Open-source hardware interest

Manufacturing techniques

Job description

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Overview

You rarely get the chance to change an entire industry. But that's the position we find ourselves in. Join us, and you'll unleash scientists, accelerate their research and help get cures to patients sooner.

We've developed machines to fully automate human cell production - the most manual process in Biotech. Cells are used to discover and develop new drugs, and now they're being used to cure diseases like Parkinson's and age-related blindness. Mytos will impact cure development across the board.

We're live in multibillion dollar biotechs on both coasts of the US, and raised $19m to expand into the market faster, and accelerate our development! Next year, neurons grown on our machines will be going into Parkinson patient brains.

We've assembled a world-class team to take on this challenge, with ex-Dyson engineers and Nature-published scientists working hand-in-hand. You can learn more about your potential Mytos teammates here: Team

Mytos is backed by Y Combinator, the most successful startup program in the world which produced companies such as AirBnb, Dropbox, and Ginkgo Bioworks.

Responsibilities

• Make our devices more indestructible - iterate and improve the robustness and reliability of our machines.
• Lead development of systems that interface to areas you might not be familiar with, such as optics and fluidics.
• Work on all aspects of hardware design - from initial concept through to manufacture.
• Refine and build existing proof-of-concept features and collaborate on integrating new ones.
• Refine our test rigs, quality processes and data, and harness them to improve our sprint velocity and help us move faster.
• Help shape our engineering culture and processes so that we keep continually improving. You'll enjoy the autonomy, accountability and customer-focus that we bring to our work.

Qualifications

• You've brought at least one complex product to market - ideally in the lab automation, medical devices or biotech space, but we're open to other areas too.
• You have a keen understanding of building reliability into hardware R&D processes.
• Complex systems containing hardware, electronics and software fascinate you. You cannot wait to work on a device that incorporates multiple electro-mechanical systems that move with high precision in tandem with one another.
• The open-source hardware movement interests you, even though your industrial experience may not have touched on things like Adafruit, SparkFun, Arduino and Raspberry Pi. What you do enjoy are non-traditional approaches to prototyping and finding ways to get things working. You might even have learnt to code to get things talking to each other.
• Manufacturing techniques including injection molding, sheet metal fabrication and CNC machining are part of your toolkit

Salary and Benefits

• Competitive salary with stock options
• Lunch covered daily
• Collaborative team environment with very high potential to learn new skills
• 24 days holiday (excluding bank holidays)
• Pension
• Awesome colleagues and an office in the Imperial College Innovation hub in White City, where you\'ll be based.
• Because of the HW device aspect of this role, we are unable to support remote-first working and potential colleagues must be happy to work from our lab.

We\'re building a team that enjoys moving fast and not killing cells, strives for continuous improvement through learning from mistakes and is passionate about work that contributes to solving real world problems.

We get excited about meeting potential colleagues from broad scientific/engineering backgrounds and who share our enthusiasm for unconstrained innovation and understanding our users.