Founding Team Member (Microfluidics & Hardware)

Fe-rry; Mumbai; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful equity in the company

Job summary

A pioneering medical technology company based in Mumbai seeks a specialist to drive the manufacturing of a microfluidic cartridge for anemia detection. The role demands expertise in taking prototypes to general production, making critical architectural decisions, and engaging directly in manufacturing transitions. Candidates should possess a strong background in microfluidic fabrication, regulatory knowledge, and quality systems. This opportunity offers meaningful equity as part of a dedicated founding team that is transitioning innovative health solutions into products.

Qualifications

• Experience in microfluidic chip and cartridge fabrication including lamination and molding.
• Familiarity with integrating detection systems into cartridge formats.
• Understanding of DFM for disposable consumables targeting cost-effective solutions.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of the microfluidic cartridge development.
• Make architecture decisions and manage design freeze processes.
• Transition prototype to production and manage pilot production.
• Align regulatory readiness and quality systems as the product matures.

Skills

Microfluidic chip and cartridge fabrication

Fluid handling at low volumes

Regulatory familiarity (CDSCO, FDA, CE-IVD)

Quality systems (ISO 13485)

Experience managing a contract manufacturer

Job description

We've built the prototypes, run clinical trials, and raised non-dilutive grants. Our bottleneck now is manufacturing-grade microfluidics. We need one person to fix that.

Ferry Lifesciences is building a multiplexed point-of-care device for anemia detection. One drop of blood, multiple biomarkers, results at the bedside. Over 50% of women and children in India are anemic. Most of them are diagnosed too late, or not at all, because the tests that catch it early don't exist outside centralized labs.

Here's where we are: two years of work. Working prototypes. A 70-participant clinical trial (IRON SAFE) completed. Incubated at IIT Bombay through SINE. Active research collaborations with IISc and CCMB that give us real lab access and scientific depth in biochemistry and molecular diagnostics. Two co-founders with medical training and product experience in health AI. Capital in the bank.

Here's what we don't have: the person who has suffered through taking a microfluidic cartridge from prototype to something you can actually manufacture at scale.

That's the hire.

If you join, you own the cartridge. Specifically: architecture decisions on the chip/cartridge platform, assay-cartridge integration, design freeze, manufacturing transfer, and standing up pilot production. You are not advising. You are building, and you have the final call on how it gets built.

The technical reality of what this requires: microfluidic chip and cartridge fabrication (lamination, injection molding, soft lithography), fluid handling at low volumes (capillary flow, passive valving, reagent metering), integrating detection systems into a cartridge format, and DFM for disposable consumables targeting cost structures that work in India.

If your experience is only PDMS prototyping in an academic cleanroom and you haven't dealt with the pain of tolerances, yield, material selection, and cost at scale, this probably isn't the right fit.

If you have, and you also bring regulatory familiarity (CDSCO, FDA, CE-IVD), quality systems (ISO 13485), or experience managing a contract manufacturer, even better.

This is a founding team level role with meaningful equity in a funded, incubated company that has done the early clinical and scientific groundwork. What's missing is the person who turns it into a product.

We are not looking for a generalist engineer. We are looking for the rare person who has already lived through the realities of turning a microfluidic prototype into a manufacturable diagnostic. If that's you, this could be a very meaningful place to build.