Job Details

Senior Electrical Engineer

Millbrae, CA

Eikon Therapeutics is a new biopharmaceutical company employing revolutionary technology at the intersection of chemistry, engineering, computation, and biology to discover novel treatments for life-threatening diseases. Eikon's discovery platform is built on groundbreaking innovations from its founders (Nobel Prize, 2014), culminating in the creation of microscopes which enable real time, molecular-resolution measurements of protein movement in living cells, thereby unlocking otherwise intractable classes of proteins as drug targets.

Position

The Hardware group at Eikon Therapeutics develops super-resolution, high-throughput optical instrumentation. The Hardware team is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to participate in future instrument development. As part of Eikon's diverse team of biologists, medicinal chemists, hardware, and software engineers, you will design and deploy custom super-resolution microscopes and automated systems that will enable the exploration and quantification of Eikon's high-content datasets.

About You

You are an adventurous, passionate, and creative electrical engineer eager to apply your talents to empower a new way of discovering medicines in a highly interdisciplinary biopharmaceutical environment. You are excited about the challenges of developing cutting-edge hardware from the ground up to enable novel technologies and solve real-world problems, and you will bring to these challenges enthusiasm, high energy, intellectual curiosity, and technical excellence.

What You'll Do

• Join an engineering team designing super-resolution microscopes, including signal processing, motion control, robotics and system automation that enables Eikon's scientific achievements
• Contribute to system design architecture of instrument control and data acquisition systems
• Design, prototype, and test electronic assemblies. Work closely with the microscopy and automation teams on design validation, implementation, and design improvements
• Build and release assemblies to be used by scientists and end-users, creating a full suite of documentation and test procedures

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 5 years of relevant experience or a Master's degree with 3 years of relevant experience designing complex digital and analog circuity
• Systems design experience contributing to design architecture
• Ability and desire to bring your design through all stages including directing PCBA layout, working with contract manufacturers, testing, debugging and rework of high density PCBAs with fine pitch components
• Strong experience debugging systems using oscilloscopes and logic analyzers
• Hands-on experience building test set-ups, reworking and modifying assemblies during development and testing
• Experience in high-speed circuitry design such as DDR memory interfaces
• Proficiency with CAD systems for schematic capture and experience in directing and reviewing PCB layout for signal integrity and EMI
• Experience in debugging and design validation of microcontrollers or SoC-based systems
• Experience creating and implementing software and hardware test benches
• Demonstrated proficiency analog circuit design, analysis, and simulation / modeling
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, presenting design ideas and receiving input from internal customers and product marketing
• FPGA design and debug experience is preferred
• Intel/Altera Quartusexperience and SystemVerilog proficiency is preferred

At Eikon, employee compensation also includes bonus and equity compensation, in addition to several generous benefit programs, including:

• 401k plan with company matching
• Medical (premiums covered by Eikon at 95%), dental and vision insurance (premiums covered by Eikon at 100%)
• Mental health and wellness benefits
• Weeklong summer and winter holiday shutdowns
• Generous paid time off and holiday policies
• Life/AD&D Insurance (premiums covered by Eikon at 100%) and optional supplemental employee-paid life/AD&D policies
• Enhanced parental leave benefit
• Daily subsidized lunch program when on-site

The expected salary range for this role is $152,000 to $168,000 depending on skills, competency, and the market demand for your expertise.

Eikon is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment.