Senior Manager, Electronics & Firmware - Instrumentation

Cytek Biosciences; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Cytek Biosciences is seeking a Manager of Electronics & Firmware to lead the design, development, integration, and commercialization of electronics and embedded firmware for next‑generation flow cytometry and imaging platforms. You will guide a team of electrical and firmware engineers through architecture, verification, manufacturing transfer, and sustaining support.

The role combines people leadership with hands-on technical leadership, requiring experience in analog/digital design, FPGA,

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Skills

Electrical engineering

Embedded systems

FPGA design

C/C++ firmware

High-speed data acquisition

EMC/ESD design

Test & debugging

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

FPGA toolchains

CUDA

Job description

Cytek Biosciences is seeking a Manager of Electronics & Firmware to lead the design, development, integration, and commercialization of electronics and embedded firmware for next‑generation flow cytometry and imaging platforms. You will guide a team of electrical and firmware engineers through architecture, verification, manufacturing transfer, and sustaining support.

The role combines people leadership with hands-on technical leadership, requiring experience in analog/digital design, FPGA,