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The Exploratory Microbiology team works and behaves with an entrepreneurial spirit to generate new product concepts for bioMérieux’s development pipeline. The responsibilities of the Lead Engineer – Instrumentation and Algorithms will be to contribute technical, scientific, and engineering expertise to the conceptualization, design, and development of high-quality medical diagnostic products.

Main Accountabilities:

+ Through his/her creativity and engineering expertise, contributes to the research and/or development of proof-of-concept in vitro medical devices and instruments.

+ Works hands-on in the engineering/biology labs to evaluate and optimize product concepts while adhering to established scientific practices and regulated design control policies.

+ Provides complete system vision of how to tackle technical or business problems within the scope of assigned projects.

+ Works within a cross-functional department of engineers, chemists, and biologists, to develop and improve procedures/methods that facilitates the research and development of quality products and mitigates product related risks

+ Provides recommendations of improvements which integrate business criteria and assure quality assurance policies and good scientific practices are respected.

Position Requirements:

+ Conceptualizes, analyzes, tests, and optimizes complex workflows, algorithms, and software.

+ Conceptualizes and builds rapid prototype instruments or fixtures using primarily off-the-shelf components.

+ Creates and executes test plans to evaluate complex designs.

+ Participates in early project phases to determine functional requirements and early design concepts.

+ Assists with data analysis for both engineering and biological testing.

+ Generates detailed code to interface with, operate, and/or evaluate output from instrumentation.

+ Ability to assess design choices with respect to functional requirements and business constraints.

+ Strong cross-functional collaborative design and project skills.

Required Minimum Requirements:

+ Education/Experience: Degree in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Physics, Data Science, or related field

+ Ph.D. + 6 years of Engineer Instrumentation and Algorithims experience

+ M.S. + 8 years of Engineer Instrumentation and Algorithims experience

+ B.S. + 10 years of Engineer Instrumentation and Algorithims experience

+ At least 6 years of experience with the following:

+ + Experience with MATLAB Image Processing Toolbox, Microsoft Visual Studio, C#, and/or Python

+ Experience with Basler pylon library and/or Zaber motion library

+ Experience with GUI development

+ Experience working with complex medical instrumentation

+ Experience with image analysis algorithms

+ Experience with time series analysis and detection algorithms

+ Design, analysis, and/or modeling experience with optomechanical systems

+ Product development experience in a regulated environment

+ Knowledge of clinical microbiology

+ Experience with intellectual property

Desired experience, skills and qualifications:

+ Candidate must be well grounded in best practices for developing and documenting image acquisition and image analysis software and algorithms.

+ Code samples should be provided upon request.

+ Excellent communication skills, both oral and written.

+ Training/proficiency in MATLAB or Octave.

+ Demonstrated knowledge and experience with software development using C, C++, and/or C#.

+ Training/proficiency with MATLAB Image Processing Toolbox or other similar image analysis library.

+ Demonstrated knowledge and experience with motion control systems.

+ Demonstrated knowledge and experience with building prototype hardware.

+ Demonstrated knowledge and experience writing code that directly interfaces with optical, electronic, and/or mechanical hardware.