Job Description
Design electronic hardware for wearable devices addressing cancer treatment side effects, collaborating with teams to achieve IEC 60601 compliance, and working on a mix of design, testing, manufacturing, and compliance work.
Responsibilities:
- Work on electronics subassembly design to create meaningful products changing cancer care.
- Create technical requirements specifications for electronics and firmware subsystems.
- Identify suitable electronic hardware components and liaise with suppliers for reliability.
- Design and prototype functional hardware circuits for prototyping and testing of devices.
- Work on PCB and broader electronic subassembly design for production.
- Collaborate with subcontract manufacturers on design for manufacture considerations.
- Design specific functional tests to prove product safety and efficacy, and learn important compliance standards for electromechanical medical devices.
- Collaborate with Quality team to identify design risks and mitigation strategies.
- Design product tests to ensure product stability in production and in the clinic.
- Complete testing of components and design inspection criteria for components to ensure device reliability.
- Prepare and review test protocols for design verification and compliance testing.
Requirements:
- Previous work on at least 2 electronic design projects from definition to prototyping and testing.
- Examples of design decisions related to component selection and design iteration based on testing outcomes.
- Grade 2:1 or above in degree programme in Electronic Engineering, Mechatronic Engineering, Robotic Engineering, or similar.
- Strong knowledge of analogue circuit design & test, including power electronics.
- Knowledge of digital circuit design, including programmable logic.
- Use of schematic capture & PCB layout tools.
- Previous experience prototyping with Arduino, Raspberry Pi, or similar.
- Familiarity with C programming.
Advantages:
- 1+ year(s) of professional electronic design experience, ideally in a medical device or similarly regulated environment.
- Familiarity with other programming languages.
- Previous exposure to projects working with medical devices.
- Any previous experience with compliance standards such as ISO 60601 and IEC 62304.