Hardware Engineer, Wearables Bengaluru · Full-time →

Dognosis; Bengaluru; Híbrido; INR 800.000 - 1.500.000; Tempo integral

Benefícios oferecidos por esta vaga

Health insurance

Flexible hours

Work-from-home days

Gym allowance ₹10,000 per year

Resumo da vaga

Dognosis in Bengaluru is seeking a hardware-focused engineer to build and improve DogSense, a lightweight wireless canine brain-computer interface worn by working dogs. You will work hands-on with our Principal Hardware Engineer to bring up sensors, power, and firmware.

The role emphasizes real-world testing with dogs, robust signal integrity, and repeatable electrode placement across breeds. You’ll contribute to system-level hardware, wearables, and next-generation versions to support early

Qualificações

• 2–5 years of hands-on hardware experience with sensors, wearables or medical devices.
• Comfortable with analogue and mixed-signal circuits, PCB bring-up and lab instruments.
• Ability to write and debug embedded firmware.
• Enjoy testing in real-world environments, not just bench tests.

Responsabilidades

• Build and bring up DogSense boards: biosignal front ends, power, wireless, and the firmware that ties them together.
• Measure and improve signal quality: electrode contact, noise and motion artifacts while a dog moves and sniffs.
• Test suits with the dogs and their handlers, and translate observations into the next revision.
• Help ensure the suit fits every working dog with repeatable electrode placement across breeds and sizes.
• Keep units built, calibrated and ready for every session.

Conhecimentos

Hardware experience 2-5y

Analogue circuits

Mixed-signal circuits

PCB bring-up

Embedded firmware

Real-world testing

Descrição da vaga

Build and improve DogSense, the wireless suit that reads our detection dogs' brain and body signals as they work.

Dognosis is a deeptech company devoted to unleashing the superpowers of humanity's best friends. We build brain-computer interfaces, wearable sensors, robotic platforms and AI models to standardise, scale and augment canine olfaction. Our focus is a breath-based multi-cancer test that triages risk at population scale, so early cancer detection can reach everyone. Our mission is informed peace of mind for people and their companions, through interspecies technology that makes medicine truly proactive. We are based in Bengaluru, India, backed by Boost VC and 1517 Fund, selected for the Accel and Prosus Atoms X LeapTech cohort, and we work with healthcare and research institutions across India, the UK and the US.

We think from first principles, question the status quo, take responsibility, move fast and keep bureaucracy to a minimum. If you are new to startups, you may find the constant contact with reality, and the freedom to act on it, refreshing.

About the role

Our detection dogs can tell us a breath sample holds cancer. DogSense is how we hear what they noticed before they show it: a lightweight, wireless suit that reads a dog's brain and body signals through fur, while the dog works. You will build, test and improve it, working hands-on alongside our Principal Hardware Engineer.

The System

DogSense is an 8-channel, fully non-invasive canine brain-computer interface. It weighs under 100 g and records EEG through custom 3D-printed TPU helmets made from scans of each dog's head, with wet and dry electrodes. The next version adds an IMU, respiration sensing and a longer-lasting battery. It has to survive head shakes, scratches, drops, sweat and saliva.

What You Will Do

• Build and bring up DogSense boards: biosignal front ends, power, wireless and the firmware that ties them together.
• Measure and improve signal quality: electrode contact, noise and motion artifacts while a dog moves and sniffs.
• Test suits with the dogs and their handlers, and turn what you see into the next revision.
• Help make the suit fit every working dog, with repeatable electrode placement across breeds and sizes.
• Keep units built, calibrated and ready for every session.

What Success Looks Like (6 Months)

• You own one part of DogSense, such as the front end, power or fit, and it measurably improves.
• More of each session's recording is clean enough to use.
• Suits are built and maintained from documented steps, not by memory.

You Are a Good Fit If

• You have 2 to 5 years of hands-on hardware experience with sensors, wearables or medical devices.
• You are comfortable with analogue and mixed-signal circuits, PCB bring-up and lab instruments.
• You can write and debug embedded firmware.
• You like testing in the real world, not only on the bench.

Valuable but Not Required

• You have worked with EEG, ECG or other biosignals.
• You have built low-power wireless devices, or devices worn by people or animals.
• You have designed enclosures or 3D-printed wearable parts.

What You Will Get

• Hands-on work on the instrument that lets our dogs tell us what they sensed, behind a test published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
• Work that shapes whether cancer gets caught early, at population scale.
• A small, interdisciplinary team of engineers, scientists, clinicians and working detection dogs. The office is never boring.
• Health insurance for you, through Plum.
• Flexible hours, and work-from-home days where the role allows.
• Up to ₹10,000 a year towards a gym, a sport or any regular fitness activity.