Lead Engineer Instrumentation and Algorithms
BioMerieux
Durham, NC, USA · North Carolina, USA · United States
Posted on Aug 6, 2025
Lead Engineer Instrumentation and Algorithms
Localisation: Durham, NC, États-Unis
Type de Contrat: Unfixed Term
Fonction: Bioscience R&D
Description
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.