Senior Mechanical Engineer

This is an opportunity to work on projects at the interface of engineering and biology. When you join us, you’ll get to:

• Make our devices more indestructible - iterate and improve the robustness and reliability of our machines.
• Lead development of systems that interface to areas you might not be familiar with, such as optics and fluidics.
• Work on all aspects of hardware design - from initial concept through to manufacture.
• Refine and build existing proof-of-concept features and collaborate on integrating new ones.
• Refine our test rigs, quality processes and data, and harness them to improve our sprint velocity and help us move faster.
• Help shape our engineering culture and processes so that we keep continually improving. You’ll enjoy the autonomy, accountability and customer-focus that we bring to our work.

We’d love to hear from you if:

• You’ve brought at least one complex product to market - ideally in the lab automation, medical devices or biotech space, but we’re open to other areas too.
• You have a keen understanding of building reliability into hardware R&D processes.
• Complex systems containing hardware, electronics and software fascinate you. You cannot wait to work on a device that incorporates multiple electro-mechanical systems that move with high precision in tandem with one another.
• The open-source hardware movement interests you, even though your industrial experience may not have touched on things like Adafruit, SparkFun, Arduino and Raspberry Pi. What you do enjoy are non-traditional approaches to prototyping and finding ways to get things working. You might even have learnt to code to get things talking to each other. 
• Manufacturing techniques including injection molding, sheet metal fabrication and CNC machining are part of your toolkit

Salary and Benefits:

• Competitive salary with stock options
• Lunch covered daily
• Collaborative team environment with very high potential to learn new skills
• 24 days holiday (excluding bank holidays)
• Pension
• Awesome colleagues and an office in the Imperial College Innovation hub in White City, where you’ll be based.
• Because of the HW device aspect of this role, we are unable to support remote-first working and potential colleagues must be happy to work from our lab.