(Senior) Hardware Engineer

The Company

Flagship Labs 110 Inc. (FL110) is a privately held, early-stage technology company developing a fully integrated, end-to-end platform to enable next generation proteomics.

Our platform integrates groundbreaking innovations in bioengineering, machine learning, and custom microelectronics to offer a level of precision and insight never before achieved. By empowering researchers to explore proteins in unprecedented detail, we are transforming the way biology is understood and applied.

FL110 is backed by Flagship Pioneering, which brings the courage, long-term vision, and resources needed to realize unreasonable results. At FL110, we are uniquely cross-functional and collaborative. We are actively reimagining the way teams work together and communicate. Therefore, we seek individuals with an inclusive mindset and a diversity of thought. Our teams thrive in unstructured and creative environments. All voices are heard because we know that experience comes in many forms, skills are transferable, and passion goes a long way.

If this sounds like an environment you’d love to work in, even if you only have some of the experience listed below, please apply.

Position Summary

Company FL110 is seeking a seasoned and visionary (Senior) Hardware Engineer, to join our engineering team.

You will be designing and developing new hardware platforms that enable next-generation proteomics and will be at the forefront of our product development life cycle, from conception to deployment.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with a cross functional team to  design and develop instrumentation for FL110’s proteomics platform including breadboarding and prototyping.
• Designing, creating and realizing next-generation platform for FL110’s proteomics solution.
• Provide hardware engineering innovation throughout a product’s full development lifecycle, from early-stage research to beta testing and product release.
• Understand and translate customer requirements to design requirements and developing a verification and validation strategy for the platform.
• Contribute to early-stage rapid concept development, prototype and test iterations with cross-functional teams.
• Work with cross-functional teams to ideate, develop and test system and subsystem concepts and architecture.
• Create, maintain, and update documents for all aspects of the development process as well as contributing to generating intellectual property

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in an Engineering or related field such as Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, or Bioengineering. A Ph.D. is an advantage.
• Minimum of 2 years of industry experience in platform or prototype development
• Familiarity with quality management systems such as ISO:9001
• Exceptional problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically and creatively.
• Experience designing and developing life science instruments or microfluidic devices.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills.
• Be an independent, solution-driven mindset, adaptable to a fast-changing environment.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience driving technical requirements with vendors, subcontractors, and manufacturers, with excellent communication and documentation skills. (OEM/ODM/JDM/CM)
• Familiarity with quality management systems such as ISO:9001
• Experience with electronic or microfluidic systems
• Experience with coding including embedded systems

About Flagship

Flagship Pioneering is a bioplatform innovation company that invents and builds platform companies, each with the potential for multiple products that transform human health or sustainability. Since its launch in 2000, Flagship has originated and fostered more than 100 scientific ventures, resulting in generation of over 500 patents, initiation of over 50 clinical trials for novel therapeutic agents and an aggregate value of more than $90 billion. Many of the companies Flagship has founded have addressed humanity’s most urgent challenges: vaccinating billions of people against COVID-19, curing intractable diseases, improving human health, preempting illness, and feeding the world by improving the resiliency and sustainability of agriculture. Flagship has been recognized twice on FORTUNE’s “Change the World” list, an annual ranking of companies that have made a positive social and environmental impact through activities that are part of their core business strategies and has been twice named to Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies. Learn more about Flagship at www.flagshippioneering.com.

Flagship Pioneering is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

At Flagship, we recognize there is no perfect candidate. If you have some of the experience listed above but not all, please apply anyway. Experience comes in many forms, skills are transferable, and passion goes a long way. We are dedicated to building diverse and inclusive teams and look forward to learning more about your unique background.

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Flagship Pioneering and its affiliated Flagship Lab companies (collectively, “FSP”) do not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to FSP or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Flagship Pioneering’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of FSP, and FSP will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.