Senior Engineer / Director of Development

The Company

3Brain AG is a Swiss deep-tech company working on cell-electronic interfaces that link biological networks to computers via custom-made semiconductor microchips. Our mission is to empower life scientists to probe intelligent networks, accelerate biomedical discoveries for the benefit of patients, and create a future more exciting than the present. Our interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers are constantly pushing the boundaries of engineering for life s complexities. We are ambitious, fast-growing and love to explore. The company is headquartered in Switzerland nearby Zurich, has a R&D office in Genova, Italy, and has installed its cutting-edge products in laboratories and pharma companies worldwide.

Tasks

Job description

For the next expansion step, 3Brain is looking for a Senior Engineer or Director of Development and Production. The ideal candidate has the industry experience and is now ready to make a career step up into leading a small team of talented female and male engineers. We are an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourage female candidates to apply for leading positions. She/He will join the management team to ensure corporate objectives are met and will lead the embedded device development team as well as supervise the production of 3Brain s systems. The successful candidate will have a passion for learning on the job and a commitment to creating products that make a difference. She/He will help plan and design the future products of 3Brain and work closely with our chief of engineering.

A non-exhaustive list of responsibilities includes:

• Lead the design team from the definition of product architecture to its design and implementation.
• Coordinate and manage the R&D teams, including electronics, firmware, mechanics and production teams.
• Plan milestones and budgets for development and production.
• Manage and optimize the production and its processes.
• Communicate with external R&D partners, suppliers and manufacturers.
• Develop and coordinate production testing.
• Monthly, quarterly KPI results and gap consolidation.

Requirements

Required Qualifications

• Please apply even if you do not perfectly match all the requirements, this is a specialised position where the right candidate and learning attitude is more important than checking all the boxes
• MSc/PhD in Electronics with 7+ years of industrial experience in modern FPGA-based or Microprocessor-based embedded system design.
• Expert understanding of mechanics and electronics processes and workflows and co-integration into a product.
• Expert understanding of production-related processes and workflows.
• You must be a detail-oriented, self-motivated and enthusiastic engineer capable of working well under deadline situations.
• Great team spirit, outstanding personality, recognized for high technical skills and strong will to lead a group of engineers in a fast-paced environment.
• Initiative, independence and ability to communicate and work effectively with other team members in a multicultural and international environment.
• Fluency in English.
• Applicant must be a holder of an EU or EFTA nationality.

Additional Qualifications

• Fluency in German.
• Firmware design (C/VHDL).
• Knowledge of Matlab and/or Python.

Benefits

What We Offer

• A dynamic and stimulating work environment driven by a desire to build transformational technologies to help others.
• A young, fast-growing company with plenty of opportunities for personal growth and development.
• Great challenges and adventures in both technical and economical fields.
• Working place: Pf ffikon, Switzerland. It is a beautiful lakeside village just outside of Zurich, the country s main cultural, financial and business center.

To apply send in both your CV and short motivational letter.